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
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
The Rebus Foundation, publisher of open textbooks and other open educational resources, is hiring: a Marketing Manager and a Product Manager. See here for more information! https://rebus.foundation/jobs-rebus/
Just got home on Thursday from facilitating a 2-day workshop on #OER and open educational practices at Davidson, North Carolina (USA): https://chendricks.org/oep2018
Now I'm working hard on co-facilitating a four-day workshop on teaching and learning in philosophy, aimed at grad students and new faculty in Greensboro, North Carolina (this is the only info on it online): https://philosophyteachers.org/cfa-2018-aapt-seminar/
These are pretty different but both really interesting to work on!
Okay, website for workshop I'm facilitating on open educational practices at Davidson College in North Carolina (tomorrow and next day) is now done!
http://chendricks.org/oep2018/
Includes schedule, slides, bibliography, and more.
#OER #openeducation #openpedagogy #openeducationalpractices #OEP
New York Governor announces $8 million for Open Educational Resources at State University of NY and City University of NY: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-8-million-open-educational-resources-initiative-suny-and-cuny-cut-high#
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
