As I slowly catch up on posting my Open Ed News and Stuff emails, I now am hitting August, after I returned from a not very restful vacation.  From August 22, here we go!

Good morning everyone, and welcome back (for those of you who are back…)

It’s hard to believe that classes start in 2 weeks.  I hope all of you have found time to enjoy at least some of the summer.  I have been reflecting for myself that asking people if they have had a “good summer” may not be a good question for those who have not.  I only hope you found some time to rest and refresh in some way.

And now, on to some Open Education news and stuff.

First, an announcement that happened towards the end of June:  SFU Senate decision marks new commitment to open education – VP Academic – Simon Fraser University  With more and more BC institutions (and institutions across Canada) making Open Education an institutional priority, hopefully Camosun will follow suit sometime soon!

Second, an announcement from BCcampus about their new B.C. Open Collection.   I encourage you to check it out and consider adding your own open resources:

“As of June 2022, the new B.C. Open Collection site has officially launched.  The B.C. Open Collection can be found at collection.bccampus.ca, which is a site that initially held open course packs first released by BCcampus in 2020. This site now contains both these open course packs and the contents of the B.C. Open Textbook Collection hosted at open.bccampus.ca.  The old collection on the open.bccampus.ca site will remain online for the time being but will eventually be retired at an undetermined date. A notice to users has been placed on open.bccampus.ca redirecting them to collection.bccampus.ca.  To learn more about the functionality of our new collection site, read the blog post Creating a Better User Experience for the B.C. Open Collection.”

And finally, a couple of resources that might be of interest to you:

From the Canada OER (CanadaOER) listserv: A list of suggested OER for courses at UOttawa : https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/uottawaoerdisciplineversion2/

Perhaps of interest to our librarians particularly:  From the CCCOER (Community College Consortium for OER) “Excited to share the announcement of a new publication from ACRL – “Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy” edited by Mary Ann Cullen and Elizabeth Dill.”

If there is anything related to Open Education or OER you would like to share with out Open Group, let me know!  And also, I will be visiting Departments and Program groups this fall to talk about Open Education.  If you would like me to visit your group, just send me a note!

Thanks, and welcome to (almost) Fall 2022.

Emily