by ikehoe | Jun 9, 2023 | Events, News, Open education
eTextbooks for Students ( Summer 2023) In our continuing effort to track the use of library licensed electronic books assigned in courses we identified 81 titles used in 40 courses during the summer semester. We searched the University Bookstore’s textbook catalog to...
by ikehoe | Jun 5, 2023 | News, Open access, Open education, UVic e-Publishing
Toward a Moral Horizon: Nursing Ethics for Leadership and Practice edited by Rosalie Starzomski, Janet L. Storch, and Patricia Rodney is a new release published by the University of Victoria Libraries ePublishing Services. It can be downloaded for free on UVicSpace:...
by ikehoe | Dec 22, 2022 | News, Open education
eTextbooks for Students (2022-2023) We are continuing with UVic Libraries pilot project, started in fall 2021, to track the use of library licensed electronic books assigned in courses for the spring 2022-23 academic term. The eTextbooks project supports access and...
by Emma Hilliard | Nov 21, 2022 | Events, Open education
Presenter: Liam McParland (University of Victoria) Are you a UVic faculty member who is interested in creating/adapting and disseminating accessible educational resources? This workshop will introduce you to Pressbooks – an open source, online authoring and publishing...
by ikehoe | Nov 3, 2022 | News, Open access, Open education
The University of Victoria provides grants for the purpose of the adoption, adaptation or development of Open Educational Resources (OERs), with the aim of replacing existing textbooks or other types of educational resources that can be prohibitively expensive....
by ikehoe | Oct 7, 2022 | Events, News, Open access, Open education, Open scholarship
The Open/Technology in Education, Society, & Scholarship Association (OTESSA) has announced our Call for Proposals/Papers: Where: Both online and in-person (hosted by York University in Toronto). You get to pick your preference for how you wish to...