Thanks and stay in touch!

Thanks and stay in touch!

by Mary Burgess -
Number of replies: 3
Now that we've finished up the final week of the workshop, I'd like to take a minute to thank you all for participating! We had some great discussions around the value of open resources and how they might change your practice as educators. We also looked at some of the barriers to adoption, specifically the difficulty finding resources in your subject areas and the time it takes to adapt resources. Later when we talked about individual and institutional readiness it was really interesting to hear your opinions about institutional resources and culture and how they factor into your decision to use open resources. 
I was inspired by so many of you. It came as no surprise that you are dedicated to creating robust learning experiences for your students, but I am always heartened to be reminded of that commitment. 
I'd love to hear from any of you who have feedback for us about this workshop. We're going to be leaving it up and available to anyone who would like to use it so please feel free to direct anyone you know to our site. The workshop itself is licensed CC-BY, so you're welcome to take the materials and customize them as you see fit. 
Again, my thanks for your contributions to this learning community and I wish you all the best in your future open endeavours!! I would love to hear about how your adoption and adaptations efforts are going, so please stay in touch!
Mary
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Re: Thanks and stay in touch!

by Shivanand Balram -

Thanks to everyone for making this a very rewarding workshop!

Happy OpenTextbook-ing!!

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Re: Thanks and what's next?

by Sylvia Currie -

I want to echo Mary's words of thanks for your contributions to this learning community. There's nothing like many minds and rich experiences to help wade through some of the issues, as well as the details around being open!

And speaking many minds, in this workshop we had 73 registrants from Canada, United States, Norway, Australia, and South Africa. However, because access to the materials and discussions did not require logging in, we also welcomed many more visitors who hopefully were able to take away some useful nuggets. We're compiling some of the participation data here, and the graph shows a steady stream of "guests".

Now, what happens next?

Tomorrow at noon Pacific you might want to take in this webinar: OER and Open Textbook Adoption and Sustainability, hosted by the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. Clint Lalonde will be talking about the BCcampus Open Textbook Project. 

Then January 8 - 21, 2014 we're planning an online "Adapting Open Textbooks" workshop here in SCoPE. We'll be sure to send along more details to you, but meanwhile mark those dates on your calendar and get in touch if you have questions (scurrie@bccampus.ca)

Thanks again everyone!