{"id":759,"date":"2015-03-19T04:06:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T04:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2015-03-19T04:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T04:08:03","slug":"science-and-biology-open-textbooks-from-bccampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/science-and-biology-open-textbooks-from-bccampus\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Biology Open Textbooks from BCcampus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sue Schmidt, the NANSLO\/CHEO<\/a> project coordinator for WICHE sent along some great links to openly licensed science and biology textbooks from BCcampus. I think the books and the model of peer review they are following could become of particular interest to us here at Humboldt State University.<\/p>\n

BCcampus<\/a> is a publicly funded organization that uses information technology to connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all British Columbia post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework.\u00a0 BCcampus is also one of North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) partners.\u00a0 See www.wiche.edu\/nanslo<\/a> for more information on NANSLO.<\/p>\n

For its member institutions, BCcampus has identified a number of open textbooks that align with the top 40 subject areas in British Columbia and placed links to them on their website – http:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/<\/a>.\u00a0 These textbooks have been reviewed by faculty experts in the science disciplines.<\/p>\n

As part of the Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) initiative funded by a U.S. Department of Labor TAACCCT grant, BCcampus was asked to review and identify several textbooks that could be used for pre-requisite science courses taught in the allied health field.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are links those textbooks that BCcampus engaged CHEO instructors in reviewing.\u00a0 All were highly rated by these instructors and those it works with in British Columbia.<\/p>\n