I wanted to take a moment to re-blog sections of a post from BCcampus about Open Access Week, which is happening right now. There are several events you can attend here in B.C., some of which are listed at https://bccampus.ca/2017/10/23/open-access-week-events-workshops-and-webinars-in-b-c/, but I particularly wanted to highlight a couple involving our own Sue Doner. Check out the BCcampus link above for more information!
Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation
When: October 26, 5:00 â 8:00 pm
Where: British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Downtown Campus, Atrium Room, 8th floor, Room 825
Please join BCIT, SFU and UBC in celebrating International Open Access Week for a panel that examines the threads running through different tensions in the open movements, including:
- Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge: Open scholarship may not be respectful of community authority, ownership, and norms of knowledge sharing.
- Ethics and Privacy: Open scholarship may complicate the impacts of human participants in research, retrospective digitization, and studentsâ right to privacy.
- Student-faculty relationships: Affordability conversations around open educational resources may lead to tensions around faculty motivation to provide the best learning resources. Open pedagogies can create risks for students: are they supported and what rights do they have in terms of their privacy, copyright, and consent?
- Accessibility and inclusivity: Open practices may lead to digital redlining for individuals and communities and may not be truly accessible for everyone.
- Instructor-Institution relationships: Open practices may allow the appropriation of instructorsâ and adjunctsâ work putting their value at risk.
Featured speakers include:
- Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus)
- Jessica Gallinger (SFU Library)
- Sue Doner (Camosun College)
- Christina Illnitichi (AMS, UBC)
- David Gaertner (First Nations and Indigenous Studies, UBC)
- Lisa Nathan (School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC)
- Additional speakers: TBA
Accessibility, Inclusivity & OERâs
When:Â October 31, 10:30 am â 12:00 pm
Where: Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), Surrey Campus, Rm A2410Â
By definition, creating inclusive learning environments and educational resources means that what is being created should be accessible to all students. What does accessibility look like in practice, and what can educators do to contribute to the accessibility of the learning resources & environments they create?
Camosun Collegeâs Sue Doner will lead this workshop, where you will begin by establishing a common understanding of key terminology like âacademic accommodationsâ, âaccessibilityâ, and âUniversal Design for Learning (UDL)â, before identifying â6 easy things you can always doâ to contribute to the accessibility of your educational resources. Finally, you will engage in an interactive, facilitated activity that will require you to adopt the perspective of a particular student and assess a learning environment for any accessibility barriers it poses to you/your student.