Open Education Events and Workshops

: The collaborative creation of Buds, Branches and Bark: A Guide to Winter Identification in the Pacific Northwest; Julia Alards-Tomalin's presentation for Food For Thought and Open Education Week at BCIT. This talk took place on March 6th, 2023, in the BCIT Summit Centre in Burnaby, BC.

: Food for Thought - Faculty in the Open: Creating Open Educational Resources; To celebrate Open Access Week, we joined open education grant recipients John Dian and Sabrina Cornish who talked about their work in open education. Both have collaborated with colleagues to create multiple openly licensed learning resources including books focusing on Internet of Things, a microbiology video series, and an animal dissection image collection. https://mediaspace.bcit.ca/media/Food+for+Thought+-+Faculty+in+the+OpenA+Creating+Open+Educational+Resources/0_e5q22a9l

: Food For Thought - Rebuilding Seattle: From Concept to Store Shelves; Have you ever wondered what it would be like to design and publish a board game? On April 9th, 2023, joint-BCIT Masters of Digital Media alumnus Quinn Brander came to BCIT to share about the process. Quinn Brander is a designer of videogames and board games. Currently, he works as a designer on Marvel: Contest of Champions at Kabam. Previously, he was lead designer of Phobies at Smoking Gun Interactive. His board game Rebuilding Seattle, published by Wizkids, was released this year and was recently awarded a Seal of Excellence from the Dice Tower. He has a Bachelor of Music from McGill University and a Masters of Digital Media from the Center for Digital Media.

: The future is open; "Open educational practices" is a broad term that encompasses the creation and adoption of open textbooks and other open educational resources, open course development, and the use of “non-disposable assignments." This presentation will make a case for why the move away from traditional (closed) practices is not only desirable but inevitable, and how students, faculty, institutions, and our communities all stand to benefit greatly from this transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCxGtAPR9U, Videorecording

: Open educational resources trades webinar; https://media.bccampus.ca/media/Open+Educational+Resources+Trades+Webinar/0_1794aa3n uuid: c88a5055-30d8-4cdc-b9d4-14e72999f164 Open Educational Resources Trades Webinar took place on February 20, 2019. The webinar was hosted by BCcampus and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. As open educational practices (OEP) continue to challenge and change higher education, Vocational Education and Trades could be seen as late to the party. Yet as an educational system that teaches hands-on skills, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and troubleshooting, vocational education fits nicely with the theories and practice of open pedagogy. In this workshop, Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus) introduces the concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP). Amanda will discuss some of the initiatives taking place in OER and discuss the many benefits institutions experience in the use of both OER and OEP. Amanda’s introduction to OER and OEP is followed by Amanda by Chad Flinn (BCIT) who will discuss his use of OER and OEP in his own practice of teaching in the trades. Chad will discuss and showcase some of the resources he and his students have co-created as well as discuss the tools that are available to vocational instructors., Webinar recording, Open educational resources, Open pedagogy, Trades

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