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OTESSA Journal volume 2, Issue 1 & 2

Please check out the latest work published in the OTESSA Journal (Volume 2, Issues 1 and 2 published Dec 2022). The journal is using a continuous publication model, so will be posting articles as they move through the editorial process. It is an open-access journal with no Article Processing Charges, so your membership, sponsorship, and conference registration supports the publication activities of OTESSA among the other work we do as we build and grow. The journal is now quietly welcoming submissions from the global public in the discourse, research, or practice sections. To join or renew your membership, please visit the membership form on our website.

We will be pushing out our social media promotion of these works from our @OTESSA_org, @OTESSA_fr, and @OTESSAjournal accounts on Twitter and other platforms. Thank you in advance for helping to promote these works as they are shared! We encourage you to share these works out using the #OTESSA and #OTESSAjournal hashtags in addition to those relevant to the article content.

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 

 Discourse Articles

Outside-In: Entangled Openness as Subversion Influencing Emergent Change, Maha Bali

Research Articles

A Synthesis of Research on Mental Health and Remote Learning: How Pandemic Grief Haunts Claims of Causality, Stephanie Moore, George Veletsianos, Michael K. Barbour

Crowdsourcing the (Un)Textbook: Rethinking and Future Thinking the Role of the Textbook in Open Pedagogy, Michelle Harrison, Michael Paskevicius, Irwin Devries, Tannis Morgan

Practice Articles

The UK Open University COVID Response: A Sector Case Study, Martin Weller

Humanizing with Humility: The Challenge of Creating Caring, Compassionate, and Hopeful Educational Spaces in Higher Education, Sarah Driessens, Michelann Parr

ePortfolio Pedagogy: Stimulating a Shift in Mindset, Rita Zuba Prokopetz

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2

Discourse Articles

On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning, Jon Dron

Research Articles

Surveillance in the System: Data as Critical Change in Higher Education, Samantha Szcyrek, Bonnie Stewart

Introducing A Reflective Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Microcredentials, Francisco Iniesto, Rebecca Ferguson, Martin Weller, Rob Farrow, Rebecca Pitt

Integrating Technology With Instructional Frameworks to Support all Learners in Inclusive Classrooms, Diane Montgomery

Elders’ Conversations: Perspectives on Leveraging Digital Technology in Language Revival, Melissa Bishop

January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This annual date serves not only as an official commemoration of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and the millions of other victims of Nazism, but to promote Holocaust education throughout the world.

For more than a decade, UVic has played a leading role in Holocaust studies. Home to the I-witness Holocaust Field School (the first of its kind for undergraduate students at a Canadian university when it launched in 2010), the Faculty of Humanities also offers a master’s stream in Holocaust studies (the only one of its kind in Canada).

In the ongoing SSHRC-funded work led by UVic Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies Charlotte Schallié, our Head of Advanced Research Services, Matt Huculak, is part of an international team of researchers for the Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education interdisciplinary project. As stated on their website, their mission is a “multiperspectival, participatory, arts-and-human-rights-based collaboration among academics, educators, Holocaust survivors, and artists for teaching & learning about the Holocaust in diverse, international public contexts.”

As part of this mission, they offer free and accessible visual storytelling resources in order to engage in dialogue-based teaching & learning processes for newer generations, including a podcast series. The latest conversation about Pedagogy and Narrative Art in Human Rights and Education is now available here. Relatedly, our University Archives is home to the Holocaust and World War II Memory Collection and we also have a Holocaust LibGuide.

These resources reflect the focus of both UVic and UVic Libraries’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically UN SDG Goal 16 on peace and justice, as the UVic community continues to tackle contemporary issues of hatred, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, ethnic conflict and genocide.

(on behalf of the Communications, Events, and Community Engagement Operational Group (CECE-OG): Christine Walde, Emily Garry, Inba Kehoe, Jennifer Wells, Lara Wilson, and Lisa Abram)

Direct Messaging: Warning Labels on Alcohol

December 12, 2019 | UVic News

Researchers from the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) and the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction in Ottawa (the Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms project) are working on a pilot project in the Yukon. Together they are studying changes in consumer drinking patterns and knowledge of health risks after warning labels are affixed to alcohol containers. The results from the pilot were so well received that the project findings became:

[an]… international media story, with articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Media outlets in Ireland, a country that was debating cancer warning labels on alcohol containers around the same time, were frequently referencing the Yukon study…

Both Tim Stockwell (UVic’s CISUR director) and Kate Vallance who participated in the study have also published open access articles that are available in the University of Victoria’s institutional repository, UVicSpace. We encourage you to visit UVicSpace to browse and read the important work of both Stockwell and Vallance.

Cross-cultural research uses information literacy instruction

June 7, 2019| UVic News

UVic libraries is proud to share a UVic News article that highlights the work of two UVic librarian researchers;

Through focus groups with students and workshops for academic Indian librarians, [Aditi] Gupta and [Rebecca] Raworth [retired] discovered that one of the biggest barriers that Indian librarians encounter is the absence of information literacy instruction in Indian library schools. The pair demonstrated that by developing IL competencies in librarians through active-learning workshops, they were making an impact on librarians’ ability to provide IL[information literacy] instruction to students at their own institutions.

Interested in information systems and library work? Please visit UVicSpace to read more work from Aditi Gupta and Rebecca Raworth.

All-Electric BC Transport

October 30, 2019 | UVic News

“If all vehicles in British Columbia were powered by electricity instead of liquid fuels by 2055, BC would need to more than double its electricity generation capacity to meet forecasted energy demand—and the move could prove surprisingly cost-effective.

The finding comes from a team of University of Victoria researchers with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and will be published in the November issue of Applied Energy.”

The Applied Energy article co-author, Curran Crawford, also has several of his open access papers in UVicSpace.

Are you looking for more open access works along the same line as Crawford’s work? UVicSpace allows you to search by subject! Visit our home page and select the right hand ‘Browse’ menu then select the ‘Subjects’ option. To get you started try typing in the following search terms to the ‘Browsing by Subject’ search :

  • renewable energy
  • renewable integration
  • electricity markets
  • wind energy

UVicSpace is an open access learning and research repository for published and unpublished digital scholarly works by the UVic community and its partners.

Royal Society of Canada elects four UVic researchers

September 10, 2019 | UVic News

The University of Victoria’s Copyright and Scholarly Communications department congratulates four UVic researchers for their recent election to the Royal Society of Canada.

‘Professors Robert Gifford (psychology and environmental studies) and James Tanaka (psychology) are elected new fellows, while Rachel Cleves (history) and Chris Darimont (geography) join as new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.’

Both James Tanaka and Chris Darimont have open access objects (video, poster & articles) that can be accessed in UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace. Check out their work in UVicSpace by following the links here, here (Tanaka) and here (Darimont).

 

Interested in adding your work to UVicSpace? Follow this link to get started.

Concrete improvements

June 30, 2019 | UVic News & EdgeWise

‘What if concrete could actually heal itself? It’s not so far-fetched. UVic engineer Rishi Gupta, who is Harsh Rathod’s PhD supervisor and HRG’s co-founder and chief technology officer, has been working on “smart concrete” research for nearly a decade. Using various fibre additives and crystalline waterproofing admixtures, his lab is working on concrete mixtures designed to be more resistant to cracking and to self-seal when cracks appear.’

Visit the University of Victoria’s open access learning and research repository UVicSpace to read open access content published by both Harsh Rathod & Rishi Gupta.

Curious about how many people have accessed the article that you’re reading in UVicSpace? Click on the ‘View Beta Statistics’ located on the right hand side of each abstract page to explore (example below).

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot, stats page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (stats) – University of Victoria

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot abstract page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (abstract)- University of Victoria

REACH Awards

October 3, 2019 | UVic News

2019 marks the third year that the University of Victoria has formally recognized its scholars for their extraordinary contributions with the REACH Awards.  UVic President Jamie Cassels describes the award as a way to “… celebrate teaching and research excellence at the University of Victoria.”

UVic’s Copyright & Scholarly Communications office encourages you to peruse the open access works of some of this year’s REACH Award recipients by visiting their pages in UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace (listed below).

For more information on how to nominate someone for a REACH Award visit UVic’s Research webpage.

The UVic Copyright & Scholarly Communications team would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the award recipients and to also extend a big thank you to UVic scholars and the work that you do!