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Meeting Notes – 29 February 2016

February 29th, 9 AM
Discussion Topics (Add your items below):
Attending:
Regrets: Leva

1. BCOER web site work (Erin & Ju Dee)
2. Open Education Week activities (Erin, Brenda, Caroline can speak to these)
Please help promote! Participation info on this page:
https://open.bccampus.ca/2016/02/22/open-education-week-2016-is-march-7-11/

  • Webinars: U of Sask Monday and Wed. with BCOER Librarians
  • Tues/Thurs: UBC Vancouver lineup on Github Hands-on and Faculty Discussion Panel
  • Friday: KPU and BCcampus hosting Creative Commons workshop with Paul Stacey

3. Your Additional Topics (Please add or jump In day of meeting!)

Note: Leva’s Updates (I won’t be present to talk about these but get in touch if you have questions)

  • Libraries OER Strategy Planning Guide: Will share this soon as a PressBooks document. A BCOER account has been created for us to play with PressBooks and also become familiar with it if you are interested
  • Open Textbook Promo kits: BCcampus will provide the following for a promo kit for BC post secondary libraries adopting/adapting open textbooks:
    • a set of BC OT brochures & posters for display/distribution
    • copies of the BCOER Faculty Checklist (currently available online & being redesigned)
    • One printed textbook from the BC Open Textbook collection to have as a sample copy. You will be able to choose from a set of selected of Arts, Science or Trades open textbooks.
    • Note: perhaps we can have a volunteer or two to work on tips/ideas for setting up an info table and/or loading textbooks on various devices per Lin’s original notes
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Meeting Notes – 22 June 2015

Monday June 22, 2015, 10 AM Agenda & Notes
Attending: Leva, Brenda, Martin, Kevin, Debra, Caroline

1. Debrief on BCOER at conferences/workshops
– very active/productive conf season, didn’t get alot of traffic at BCLA but the presentations good there and at OT Summit
– ACTION: Share out slides /resources and proposals in the wiki
2. Hackfest Planning
– ACTION: Doodle to rsvp attendance for catering & invite other librarian/hacker types to come – Date set for July 17th at BCIT DTN:
http://doodle.com/vpsbi547xab7diry
– ACTION: Add ideas to the Google Doct here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16sXqqfqtswNs4hPCPOaCs6_2OxTnOp7cq6FG-ZsTRmU/edit?usp=sharing
– Monday July 6th, 10 AM meeting for any further planning
3. Welcome to new member Kevin Stranack, PKP/SFU
4. How to access keynote presenter Rajiv to do similar at institution
ACTION: Leva to followup for Debra
5. Need for an OT Strategy map – Library roadmap
ACTION: Caroline to gather sub group to work on a framework and then we do some of the work at the Hackfest;
NEXT Meeting: Monday July 6, 10 AM to talk about Hackfest

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Meeting Notes – 4 May 2015

Monday May 4th, 2015, 10 AM Agenda and Notes
Attending: Leva, Brenda, Amanda, Sybil, Debra, Caroline, Erin

1. News & Updates:
– Busy conference season!!! Erin, Amanda & Leva presenting to Oregon College Librarians May 26; Brenda/Caroline/Rajiv at BCLA; Caroline & Leva at OT Summit; Erin/Debra doing poster at ETUG
– new proposals submitted by Leva & Brenda on our behalf for OpenEd 2015; Brenda submitted to another Distance Ed conference
– Leva & Debra attended the IL workshop at CapU
– Brenda: TRU OL will have OER event next week; Clint speaking
2. CC Licensing Work: Stephanie working on guide and will have another version to us;
3. MediaWiki & Subject Guides Work: Amanda finishing her term as a Prof. Librarian and will conclude her part in the project; Kudos and thanks to her; She’ll be with us at the BCLA and OT Summit events; Version 2 of the Faculty Guide is posted on web site and she’s preparing a sustainability report for BCOER use of Mediawiki
Good Suggestion: We need to be sure to have CC-BY License on our guides
4. Conference prep: We will get through BCLA first and see what we’ll do for OT Summit; Volunteers for BCLA Booth? – Debra, Brenda, Melanie Cassidy available to be at booth
5. Big idea! Let’s do a Resource Guides Sprint focused on subject guides built in Mediawiki something in July. ACTION: Leva to look for venue and do a Doodle to BCOER on date.
6. Another Big Idea! Erin gathering partners to organize and offer the Open Access week in October jointly with UBC ACTION: Leva to attend meeting and see where we (BCcampus or BCOER) can participate/help; Note: some way for people at a distance to tap in would be great via streaming video/audio
7. Hold on to this Idea: We have forums we can facilitate off our WP site on open where we can communicate with each other and faculty; Caroline & Leva decided we can play with this first and look at making it available in Fall 2015

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Meeting Notes – 30 March 2015

Monday March 30, 2015 10 AM Agenda and Notes
Attending: Brenda, Stephanie, Debra, Leva, Caroline, Martin, Lin

1.Welcome & News
– BCcampus Open Ed won award for Creative Innovation for OT project by OE Consortium
– B, C, M, L attended ACRL conference, lots of people, lots of sessions on OER and good tips (and a few mentioning BCOER)
– interesting discussions: “free alternative textbooks” definition of “open access” “Oer” needs work – sometimes if something is free individuals calling it open when it is not it just means it’s been licensed for our use /conceptual shift
– tip: put OER in your catalogue helps e.g. MARC records and version…
– tip: Ask ourselves how do we make it easy for faculty?
ACTION: think of ways we can “make OER easy for faculty”

2. CC Licensing work (Stephanie)
– CC Primer written and feedback needed pls.
– intent to clarify the confusion/audience is librarians first (faculty indirectly or repurpsed)
– free doesn’t mean its OER per discussion
– case dependent so SS want to give baseline knowledge; foundational tool for librarians
Suggestions for document :
– chunk down the info
– split btw users OER /creators of OER
– visuals would be good or at-a-glance tool or flow chart
– possibly interactive/linked screens
– keep it simple
ACTION: feedback to Stephanie please

3.Subject Guides work (Erin/Amanda away – Leva spoke to this)
– Faculty assessment Checklist done by Amanda and shared
ACTION: feedback to Amanda and then we will post on the web
-Mediawiki orientation Session went well; thank you Amanda and Erin (http://mediawiki.bccampus.ca)
ACTION: continuing experimentation; documentation of best practices on Mediawiki site and planning for upcoming webinar

4.Conference Presentations/booth
Busy Spring for us!
– BCLA in May (Brenda/Caroline/Rajiv)
– OT Summit in May (Caroline/Leva/Erin)
– Etug in June (poster) (Leva/Debra …)
– STHLE in June (booth) (Leva and colleagues)
ACTION: Brenda & Caroline meeting to discuss; Leva to meet with Caroline and Debra
ACTION: Let’s share our notes from conferences in our working wiki; We will create a page in the working wiki for this; also Leva and others share your presentations and proposals for BCOER so we can borrow and re-use

5. Other Items:
April 2016 – ACRL – BCOER presentations – Call for proposals
ACTION: Brenda is putting in a proposal and can present if accepted as she is planning to attend
Let’s convene a meeting of the BCOER at BCLA or OT Summit
ACTION: we can look at schedule but OT Summit might be a better bet as BCLA is packed agenda.

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Meeting Notes – 23 February 2015

Monday February 23, 2015 10 AM

Agenda Items & Notes

Attending: Leva, Erin, Debra, Lin, Stephanie, Martin, Caroline, Brenda
1.Welcome & intros: Erin introducing Stephanie Savage, 2nd year SLAIS student worked with Devin on OpenUBC – will join us to help with any Copyright related projects. Welcome! ACTION: Leva will add Stephanie to our wikispace
2. Web site update – a) Leva to update still with LibGuide OER Primer links and OER Repository Rubric; embed plug-in for WP to be installed in the coming week for use with Mediawiki
b) Technology subgroup & Guides update- Erin & Amanda testing space in BCcampus Mediawiki. ACTION: All free to go there to setup an account to try it out but Amanda will be working on pages and will finetune and document steps /guide

3. Professional Learning offerings/opps
– AdoptOTB.com is available as archived workshop – Feedback is very useful course but dropoff at mid-point; great that it is archived (Brenda, Caroline, Leva doing the workshop); ACTION: Caroline to add to the Faculty kit; Leva will link to it from BCOER pages
– Open Education Week webinars – BCOER scheduled Thursday March 12 at 11 am (30min) webinar for Librarians – [Erin, Leva & Amanda W.]
– Anyone doing something for Open Education Week? Do we want to co-promote? ACTION: Leva to send out a note to BCOER

– Can support faculty by identifying content for inclusion in LMS (identifying gaps in the textbooks and link to content using PURLS – develop a common place for inclusion of content)

– BCLA May 20-22: BCOER presentation Friday (Caroline, Brenda, & faculty person) and BCcampus booth Wed night/ Thurs – Leva/Amanda C. and BCOER: Debra and others welcome ACTION: Checkout if Mood pencils as swag ?
– BCcampus OT summit May 28/29 Call for Proposals – Let’s submit one on Librarians and what we are doing in BC to support OT? Based on last year year do we think we need something more of a conversation/planning or handson or working session? [Caroline, Leva & maybe Erin] – Leva can submit; Registration is now open!
–ETUG spring workshop SFU-B by June 4/5 – Call to Open end of February and Closes March 25th – BCOER session?
-Anyone going to OE Global Conference April 22-24, Banff
-Put this on your calendars! Open Education Conference Nov 18-20 Hotel Fairmont Vancouver
4. Faculty OT Book kit/starter guide – Caroline leading this; ACTION: Caroline to setup a libguide page and Lin, Debra, Brenda will help build the “kit”
5. Copyright projects – ACTION: Stephanie will add ideas in the wiki for our feedback
6. Sharing Open Ed info on BCLA list (ALS)
Connecting with SPARC Libraries (Debra will attend any meetings if available)
Connecting with CCCOER or OE Consortium (Leva )
7. Any changes or additions to our Frame of reference and goals set last year? No discussion
8. Other – Please add your items: N/A
9. Next Meeting: Monday March 30th 10 AM (week of March 23rd some will be away at ARL conference)