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SUPPORT
Contact
- Debra Flewelling, Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Email: flewellingd@douglascollege.ca
Phone: 604-527-5190
Website and information
- Open Douglas
- Library Research Guides: Open Educational Resources
- Student Resources: Open Educational Resources
- Open Access
Events
Adoptions
If you are using an open textbook or other OER in a Douglas course, please report it to:
- Debra Flewelling, Open Education & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Email: flewellingd@douglascollege.ca
USING OER
DOuglas Open Repository (DOOR)
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Arca provides access to post-secondary institutional digital assets and research output via a cross-repository search layer. Participating institutions share a single repository, with individual customized website interfaces providing portals to their own content
Canadian repositories
Douglas College Library
Douglas College Bookstore
- Open textbooks are noted by courses during online purchase
- Bound print copies are available in store for select open textbooks
OER from Douglas
Open textbooks – new
- Beginner Statistics for Psychology by Nicole Vittoz and Kai Zhang
- Database Design – 2nd Edition by Adrienne Watt, Nelson Eng
- Project Management by Adrienne Watt
Open textbooks – adapted
- Douglas College Human Anatomy and Physiology I, 2nd ed by Jennifer Barker
- Douglas College Human Anatomy and Physiology II, 2nd ed by Jennifer Barker
- Douglas College Astronomy 1105 by Jennifer Kirkey
- Douglas College Physics 1104 Custom Textbook – Summer 2020 by Jennifer Kirkey
- Douglas College Physics 1107 Fall 2019 by Jennifer Kirkey
- Douglas College Physics 1207 by Jennifer Kirkey
- Engineering and Technology in Society – Canada by Jennifer Kirkey
Open course
- Education and Career Planning Open Course contributing author
- Mechanics for Applied Science by Jennifer Kirkey
Open homework
- Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan – 2nd Cdn Ed (featuring over 120 interactive activities) lead institution
- Writing for Success: 1st Canadian H5P Edition, content consultant David N. Wright
Supplemental materials
- Digital astronomy diagrams by Jennifer Kirkey for Astronomy: OpenStax
- OER mechanic images by Douglas College Physics and Astronomy and UBC Engineering
- Virtual and Augmented Reality field trips, contributor Nathalie Vigouroux-Caillibot
Other OER used in Douglas courses
ZTC program
- General Business Certificate
CREATING OER
Grants and projects
REVIEWING OER
Open textbooks reviewed by Douglas faculty
OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION
Working group
Student Union
Blogs, articles and news
- Free textbooks and other open educational resources gain popularity – July 1, 2023 (Physics Today)
- Quality Through Collaboration: Open Problems and Images for Physics – April 6, 2022 (BCcampus News)
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And the Incentive Grant winners are … – July 7, 2021 (Open Douglas)
- A strategic plan for OER at Douglas – March 24, 2021 (Open Douglas)
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Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 OER Incentive Grant Winners – March 16, 2021 (Open Douglas)
- Discovering his passion: how this alum’s time at Douglas helped him build the foundation for his career – March 5, 2021 (Douglas College Blog)
- There is nowhere to go but up for OER at Douglas College – January 29, 2021 (Open Douglas)
- Huge increase in open textbook use at Douglas College for Winter 2021 – January 12, 2021 (Open Douglas)
- Douglas to develop ZTC for General Business Certificate – January 11, 2021 (Academica Group)
- OER Grant Awarded to Douglas College for ZTC Business Program – January 7, 2021 (BCcampus News)
- Zero-textbook-cost Grant Awarded to Business Management Department – January 5, 2021 (Open Douglas)
- Award for Excellence in Open Education: Debra Flewelling – May 13, 2020 (BCcampus)
- Press Play to Improve Access and Inclusivity – November 13, 2019 (BCcampus News_
- OER incentive grant winners for Summer 2019 – June 26, 2019 (Open Douglas)
- Open textbooks in use at Douglas College for Summer 2019 – May 29, 2019 (Open Douglas)
- Award for Excellence in Open Education: Jennifer Kirkey – April 30, 2019 (BCcampus)
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Jennifer Kirkey: Winner of BCcampus’ Award for Excellence in Open Education – April 20, 2019 (Open Douglas)
- Students care about more than the cost of textbooks – August 24, 2018 (Open Douglas)
- Why I started down the open textbook path – July 31 2018 (Open Douglas)
- Researchers describe patterns of open textbook adoptions in BC – July 23, 2018 (Open Douglas)
- Open Education Stories: Removing barriers to access with Jennifer Barker – October 10, 2017 (BCcampus)
Research and presentations
Barker J., Jeffery, K., Jhangiani, R.S., Veletsianos, G. (2018). Eight patterns of open textbook adoption in British Columbia The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(3).
Bridging the accessibility gap with VR
BEYOND DOUGLAS
BCcampus: Educational Electronic Health Record System (EdEHR) Project
- Nina Blanes, Patricia Visosky (2018)
BCcampus Open Education
Faculty Fellows
- Jennifer Barker (2017-18)
- Jennifer Kirkey (2016-17)
Advisory Board
- Florence Daddey (2019-20)
Business ZTC Programs Advisory Group
- Florence Daddey (2019-21)
Health ZTC Programs Advisory Group
- Rhonda Benke (2019-21)
Open Homework Systems Advisory Group
- Kyle Maddox (2019-21)
STEM ZTC Programs Advisory Group
- Jennifer Kirkey (2019-21)
BCcampus EdTech Fellow
- Derek Turner (2019-2020)
BCOEL Membership
- Debra Flewelling