{"id":4098,"date":"2014-10-10T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/?post_type=front-matter&p=4098"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:37:28","slug":"about-bccampus","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/front-matter\/about-bccampus\/","title":{"raw":"About BCcampus Open Education","rendered":"About BCcampus Open Education"},"content":{"raw":"Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition<\/em>\u00a0was adapted by Jennifer Walinga from Charles Stangor's textbook Introduction to Psychology<\/em>. For information\u00a0about what was changed in this adaptation, refer to the Copyright statement at the bottom of the home page in the webbook or in the Front Matter of other export formats. This adaptation was supported by BCcampus Open Education.\r\n\r\nBCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOpen educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. Our open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons licence<\/a>, and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or as printed books that are available at cost.\r\n\r\nFor more information about open education in British Columbia, please visit the BCcampus Open Education<\/a> website. If you are an instructor who is using this book for a course, please fill out our Adoption of an Open Textbook<\/a> form.","rendered":"

Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition<\/em>\u00a0was adapted by Jennifer Walinga from Charles Stangor’s textbook Introduction to Psychology<\/em>. For information\u00a0about what was changed in this adaptation, refer to the Copyright statement at the bottom of the home page in the webbook or in the Front Matter of other export formats. This adaptation was supported by BCcampus Open Education.<\/p>\n

BCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. Our open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons licence<\/a>, and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or as printed books that are available at cost.<\/p>\n

For more information about open education in British Columbia, please visit the BCcampus Open Education<\/a> website. If you are an instructor who is using this book for a course, please fill out our Adoption of an Open Textbook<\/a> form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[17],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-4098","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4098\/revisions\/4816"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4098\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introductiontopsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}