{"id":141,"date":"2018-12-12T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=141"},"modified":"2020-01-14T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T20:13:07","slug":"what-does-adoption-mean","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/chapter\/what-does-adoption-mean\/","title":{"raw":"What does adoption mean?","rendered":"What does adoption mean?"},"content":{"raw":"In open education, adoption refers to the use of an open textbook or other open educational resource in the classroom.\r\n\r\n<span>For adoption tracking purposes, BCcampus Open Education defines adoption as follows: \"Each adoption refers to a course section within a specific term and year for which an open textbook has replaced a primary textbook or educational resource that must be purchased.\" See\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/open-textbook-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Textbook Stats\u00a0<\/a><span>for more information.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIf you're an instructor at a post-secondary institution in British Columbia, please fill out the BCcampus Open Education<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/adoption-of-an-open-textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adoption Form<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>so we may track usage in this province.\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\" style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Adoption Guide - 2nd Edition<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p>In open education, adoption refers to the use of an open textbook or other open educational resource in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><span>For adoption tracking purposes, BCcampus Open Education defines adoption as follows: &#8220;Each adoption refers to a course section within a specific term and year for which an open textbook has replaced a primary textbook or educational resource that must be purchased.&#8221; See\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/open-textbook-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Textbook Stats\u00a0<\/a><span>for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an instructor at a post-secondary institution in British Columbia, please fill out the BCcampus Open Education<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/adoption-of-an-open-textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adoption Form<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>so we may track usage in this province.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\" style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Adoption Guide &#8211; 2nd Edition<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Adoption defintion","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-141","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/141\/revisions\/932"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/39"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/141\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}