Events

Join Us! Open Education Week 2022 (University of British Columbia) - The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Discovery offers six sessions on OER Basics and two specialized sessions on Indigenous OER and Designing Accessible Courses and OER.

https://open.ubc.ca/join-us-open-education-week-2022/

BCcampus offers the following sessions during OE Week.

• The Launch of B.C.’s ABE ZTC Project (Plus What’s Next!)
• How It Started/How It’s Going: 10 Years of Open Textbooks in B.C.

• Discovering Open Education Through Work-Integrated Learning

The Francophone OER task group of the CARL Open Education Working Group has put together a full schedule of events to celebrate Open Education Week in French!

Some highlights: 

Open Education Week is March 7th – 11th, 2022 and Sask Polytech Library will be hosting a series of events. 

The Path to the Future: Open Homework Systems

Please join our virtual Open Education Week 2022 Event to hear from two Douglas College faculty members who use two different open homework systems. This session is open to all.

Getting Started with H5P: Creating Interactive Content for Students

David N. Wright, Chair, English Department

Presented by Lauren Byl
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 10 – 11 am
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

How do you choose a quality journal? What are predatory journals? How do you avoid publishing in a predatory journal?  By the end of this workshop, you will:

• Understand what makes a journal predatory
• Have tips and tricks to use to identify quality and predatory journals
• Know who to reach out to for help

Presented by Sandra Keys, Vicky Chung and Anneliese Eber
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Depositing and making your research data available for (maybe) sharing is becoming increasingly important and often required by funding agencies and journals.

Presented by Tim Ireland and Agnes Zientarska-Kayko
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Bring your computer to this hands-on Zotero workshop. Zotero is an online citation management software program. If you are writing any academic papers, this software will save you a lot of time and frustration. We will guide you through:

Presented by Lauren Byl and Abbey Colucci
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Making learning materials freely accessible and available to the Waterloo community is part of the Library's mission.

GreenHouse is hosting a hackathon in partnership with GO Open Data and the City of Kitchener Innovation Lab where students will transform municipal-level open data into sustainable, equitable impact projects.