B.C. Open Education Updates
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Updates and news regarding open education in B.C. for 2025 as posted in the BCcampus newsletter.
BCcampus is pleased to announce that its open education helpdesk is now using Jira Service Management to answer queries. Both the contact form in the B.C. Open Collection and in the BCcampus OpenEd websites now direct queries to this system. Messages sent to BCcampus Open Education Help via the open@bccampus.ca email will continue to be monitored.
DID YOU KNOW …
That BCcampus provides information and resources about how to Advocate for Open Education.
New in the OER by Discipline Directory
- Business: Small Business Management
- History: Open Anthology of the American Revolution
- Nursing: Simulation scenarios for nurse practitioner educators: A faculty guide
- Nutrition: Realities of Nutrition
- Open Education: Finding and Using Openly Licensed Images: A Quick Guide for Students
- Spanish / Health and Medicine: Para vivir con salud
- Statistics: Analytic Techniques for Public Management and Policy
New in B.C.
Generative AI and Education
ICYMI
DID YOU KNOW …
The latest Pressbooks update provides these improvements to BCcampus’s Pressbooks sites.
- New branding for British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform (pressbooks.bccampus.ca) and BCcampus Open Publishing (opentextbc.ca): In an effort to better distinguish between the Pressbooks site for B.C. and Yukon faculty and the one for BCcampus-published resources, we have made some changes to the appearance of both sites.
- British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform (pressbooks.bccampus.ca): Replaced the BCcampus logo with a new logo (British Columbia/Yukon Pressbooks logo). The red primary site colour remains the same.
- BCcampus Open Publishing (opentextbc.ca): Now features a dark blue theme that reflects BCcampus branding. The BCcampus logo remains the same.
New in the B.C. Open Collection
- Fundamentals of Business – British Columbia Edition 2024 by Florence Daddey and Rachael Newton at Douglas College. This book was part of a General Business Certificate ZTC grant provided by BCcampus.
- New edition: Information Systems for Business and Beyond – 1st Canadian Edition from Fanshawe College. We added a prior edition of this book to the collection in 2014, and this edition was published in 2022. The original edition will be archived on June 2, 2025.
New in the OER by Discipline Directory
- Communications: Pathways to Connection: A Facilitation Guide for Social Emotional Development and Community Engagement
- Dance: So You Think You Know Dance? Fundamentals of Dance
- Environmental Studies: Fish, Fishing, and Conservation
- Fine Arts: Exploring the Arts – A Brief Introduction to Art, Theatre, Music, and Dance
- Music: Original Etudes for the Developing Conductor
- Public Speaking: It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century
New in B.C.
Generative AI and Education
- AI Symposium & Showcase (March 21, 2025, TRU)
- AI in Education (TRU)
ICYMI
- Resilience and Open Education: Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime (CCCOER webinar recording)
Open Ed Blogs and Opportunities
DID YOU KNOW …
That students attending post-secondary institutions in B.C. have saved over $41M since 2012. For more information on adoption stats, see Known Open Textbook Adoptions in B.C.
New in the OER by Discipline Directory
- Business Communications: Organizational Business Communication
- Earth Science: Introduction to Earth Science – 2nd Edition
- Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education: Nature and Outdoor Play
- Language Learning (Non-EnglishOER)
New in B.C.
- See the BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL) website for a list of OER library guides at B.C.’s post-secondary institutions.
