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Congratulations to our Winter 2021 winners who are receiving the OER or No-Cost/Low-Cost (NC/LC) Supplementary Materials Incentive Grants From Language, Literature & Performing Arts: Jason Bourget, English Trish Matson, English Nancy Squair, English Nathan Hall, Student Success From Science & Technology Jennifer Kirkey, Physics Will Gunton, Physics Nakul… Continue Reading →
A Strategic Plan for OER at Douglas
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Douglas College champions OER adoption for students, so much so that one of the initiatives in its 2020 – 2025 Strategic Plan is to expand the availability of OERs at the College. This will reduce costs for textbooks and related… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to our Fall 2020 OER Incentive Grant winners (for OER use in Summer 2020) From Language, Literature & Performing Arts: Cavanagh Whitely, Student Success From Science & Technology Jennifer Barker & the Biology Team, Biology Congratulations to our Winter… Continue Reading →
The Douglas College Student Union (DSU) is committed to supporting the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) at Douglas College. Last week, they marked Open Education Week by creating a video thanking the Douglas College faculty for using OER. As… Continue Reading →
With the rapid growth in our textbook adoptions at Douglas College, we’ve taken the opportunity to look back and share this increase through data visualization from 2014 to 2020. OER use at Douglas College has steadily increased, with a notable… Continue Reading →
With the many changes 2020 brought, one positive shift we’ve seen has been a large jump in OER use here at Douglas College. From Winter 2020 to Winter 2021, the total number of courses that have replaced commercial textbooks for… Continue Reading →
BCcampus recently awarded a zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) grant to members of the Business Management department of Douglas College. Their successful application was to develop one new open textbook and adapt/update three others. Once this work is complete, Business Management could adopt… Continue Reading →
We are proud to report that the Fall 2020 term shows the biggest increase in open textbook adoptions since 2013 (the first year that OER data was recorded at Douglas College). To illustrate, In 2013, we had 6 course adoptions of… Continue Reading →
Our Douglas College Student Union (DSU) is very active and fully engaged in open education. Their strong committed voices have been at the table since the beginning of our Open Douglas group, as seen on an Open Education timeline the… Continue Reading →
On October 23, 2019, Open Douglas welcomed Will Engle, Strategist of Open Education Initiatives from the University of British Columbia, to facilitate a workshop for instructors on how to rethink their assignments using open pedagogy. In other words, asking instructors… Continue Reading →
