Christina Hendricks @chendricks@scholar.social
Professor of Teaching in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. Interested in open education, equity & inclusion, accessibility, as well as philosophy. She/her/hers.
Joined Jun 2017
Tomorrow I'm doing an online workshop on Open Educational Resources and getting started revising an open textbook in Pressbooks. Sneak peek: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Sandbox:OER_Lethbridge_2020 #OER
Cool idea as a way to introduce people to open education: 5 weeks of open edu challenges...activities that take 10 minutes or less. Nice! https://oechallenge.opened.ca/about-the-open-education-challenge-series/ #OER
BCcampus in British Columbia is hosting a webinar Oct. 14 on "Creating Accessible #OER in Pressbooks": https://bccampus.ca/event/creating-accessible-oer-in-pressbooks/ #a11y
Interview with Daniel Heath Justice from Uni of British Columbia Vancouver on decolonizing open education, Indigenous voices and perspectives in open archives such as Wikipedia, and more: https://open.ubc.ca/open-dialogues-daniel-heath-justice/ #OpenEducation #OER
Great story about a colleague's project to create interactive, browser-based activities to go along with an #OpenTextbook in logic: https://bccampus.ca/2020/02/06/homework-activities-a-logical-extension-of-forall-x-using-carnap/ I can't wait to see the results of this project by Dave Gilbert at #UBC #Philosophy! #OER
Pressbooks can now make clones of open books and copy over H5P activities, as @clintlalonde discusses in this post. Nice! https://edtechfactotum.com/pressbooks-cloning-now-with-added-h5p-goodness/ #OER #OpenTextbooks
And here are links to the two Introduction to Philosophy open textbooks published so far:
Philosophy of Mind: https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-mind/
I'm editing a series of open textbooks for Philosophy courses, and am learning a lot along the way. Here is a blog post about some things I've learned about accessibility and publishing open textbooks on the Pressbooks platform: http://blogs.ubc.ca/chendricks/2020/01/11/accessibility-open-textbooks/ #OER #OpenTextbooks #a11y
I'm the series editor for a series of #OpenTextbooks for Introduction to Philosophy courses, and we now have two books published (out of nine planned)!
Philosophy of Mind: https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-mind/
I’m very happy that students at our university made a successful argument to senior leadership to invest in open educational resources through a fund that faculty, staff and students can apply to to support use, adaptation & creation of #OER! https://open.ubc.ca/oer-fund/
Nice! a guide on Open Education working groups at higher edu institutions. A work in progress from BCcampus (British Columbia, Canada). Comment using hypothes.is!
https://bccampus.ca/2019/03/21/in-the-making-an-open-working-group-guide/
A great article on ingredients for a successful open education initiative at a higher education institution, by @thatpsychprof!
https://wcetfrontiers.org/2019/02/06/successful-institutional-open-education-initiative/
Super cool! A list of open access logic textbooks! https://github.com/OpenLogicProject/OpenLogic/wiki/Other-Logic-Textbooks
Proposals now being accepted for the Cascadia Open Education Summit in Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 2019. See here for info & proposal form: https://bccampus.ca/event/cascadia-open-education-summit/
Creative Commons Global Summit is May 9-11, 2019, in Lisbon. See here for the call for proposals as well as application for scholarship to help offset the cost: https://summit.creativecommons.org/proposals/ #OER
Looking for chapter authors for some parts of an Introduction to #Philosophy open textbook I'm helping to edit. Also looking for editor for Aesthetics section. Open textbook is free of cost, licensed to allow re-use (CC BY). This is a volunteer activity; we have no money, sadly, but a lot of enthusiasm!
You’re welcome to join into virtual conversations with some people at the Open Education conference next week! Join us with Virtually Connecting! http://virtuallyconnecting.org/blog/2018/10/06/opened18/ #openedu #OER
Hello to those interested in open education and open educational resources: consider adding yourself to the open edu list on Trunk for mastodon, lists of people interested specific kinds of topics! https://communitywiki.org/trunk #OER
Kwantlen Polytechnic University in the Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) area introduces a second Zed Cred (zero textbook cost degree program) using open educational resources! https://www.vancourier.com/kpu-creates-second-program-with-no-textbook-costs-1.23418423
Professor of Teaching in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada. Interested in open education, equity & inclusion, accessibility, as well as philosophy. She/her/hers.
Joined Jun 2017
