It was on October 16, 2012 at the annual OpenEd conference in Vancouver that then British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, John Yap, announced the creation of the B.C. Open Textbook Project. ...

On September 11, 2015, Manitoba’s Minister of Education and Advanced Learning announced the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to make higher education more accessible by...

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it. A goal of the Project is to provide flexible and affordable access to higher...

The Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative is designed to: assist with reducing the costs of a post-secondary education for students; and, provide students and faculty members ...

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that promotes and enables the sharing of knowledge and creativity throughout the world. The organization produces and maintains a free suite of licensing ...

Open Education Global (previously known as Open Education Consortium) is a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on open...

BCcampus is hosting an open education challenge series for faculty interested in learning more about open education practices (OEP). This series is a fun way to get a taste of OEP – over the course ...

Join us for the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit (replacing the BC Open Textbook Summit in 2019), in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 & 18, 2019. This event is co-hosted with our regional coll...

BCcampus is pleased to, once again, host the Open Textbook Summit 2017, May 24-25, 2017. The Open Textbook Summit brings together leaders in the open textbook field, from faculty who are reviewing, ad...

British Columbia's provincial government provided funding for the Open Textbook Project. 2012-2015 $2 million was granted by the BC Provincial Government in the creation and development of 40 open te...

For ten years BCcampus administered an online program development fund (OPDF). Recognizing that the B.C. post-secondary system exists in a world where change is a constant factor and the ability to ad...

BCcampus is committed to being open in everything we do. We are a publicly-funded organization serving British Columbia’s post-secondary sector. The goal of higher education is the creation, dissemina...