British Columbia
17 Selkirk College
SUPPORT
Contacts
For assistance, please contact:
- Ken Laing, Instructional Services and Digital Initiatives Librarian
Email: klaing@selkirk.ca
Phone: 250-365-7292, ext 21382
Information
Teaching and Learning Institute
BCcampus Open Education Interior Regional Representative
Ross McKerlich
Email: rmckerlich@bccampus.ca
The Open Interior channel is available for communicating with colleagues at BC’s interior post-secondary institutions who are interested in open education. To join, follow these steps:
- Click on the following link
- Create an account
- Once you create an account you are automatically in the “Town Square” channel. Look to the left under “public channels” click more and after searching choose “open interior.”
This is a public channel that anyone can join so feel free to share this information with colleagues.
USING OER
Canadian repositories
OER from Selkirk
Open textbooks – new
- Professional Cook series contributing authors Wendy Anderson, Robyn Mitz, Harry Pringle
Open textbooks – adapted
- Adult Literacy Fundamentals Mathematics – Books 1-6 by co-author Wendy Tagami
Course
- Education and Career Planning (EDCP) online course, contributing author
- Supporting Students with Disabilities in BC Postsecondary, contributing author
CREATING OER
Projects in Progress
OE Foundation Grant (2020)
Joint award/project with College of the Rockies
- Identify faculty needs and existing resources for open education development and use at each college
- Use these data to develop an Open Learning Resource Inventory (OLRI) and determine directions for future development of open education ancillary resources
- Put out a call that assists faculty with design, training, and support of projects that fill gaps for ancillary resources
- Showcase developed OER at the Learning Region Symposium, a yearly event held by the Learning Region.
REVIEWING OER
Open textbooks reviewed by Selkirk faculty
- BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Course Pack 6
- Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions
- Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC
- Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications
- Principles of Economics (OpenStax) – first edition
- Principles of Microeconomics (OpenStax) – first edition
- Writing for Success
OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION
Selkirk College Student Union
Blogs and news
- Open First! at Selkirk – June 25, 2020 (BCcampus News)
- Collaboration in the Interior opens new doors – April 28, 2020 (BCcampus News)
- Open education resources reduce cost to post-secondary – February 4, 2019 (Selkirk Sentinel)
BEYOND SELKIRK
BCOEL Membership
- Ken Laing
Last update: Jun 30/20
