The first set is over 500 resources developed by C2T2 and system partners (referred to in the past as the C2T2 Electronic Curriculum Collection) that are now available under a BC Commons license to any BC educator. These span a host of curriculum areas, and are particularly strong in Adult Basic Education, Health, and Human & Community Services.

The second set of 300+ links was added as part of a new partnership with the BC Academic Health Council. These curated links are freely available and of primary interest to Practical Nursing educators.

Once SFU users have logged in, they are also presented with the choice of merging their old CAS/SOL*R account with their SFU account, thus preserving all of the work they had done previously.

Based on this successful pilot, expect to see other institutions connected to BCcampus services via Shibboleth in the future.

The availability of Free and Open educational resources is exploding. As is the availability of Open Textbooks. Yet often educators are unaware of these resources, and finding them through a generic Google search can be daunting.

In order to help raise awareness off the availability of these resources, and maake them easier to find, BCcampus has created the Free Learning site – http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/ . From this site, which requires no accounts or login, you can

For institutional reps, you may also be interested to learn how BCcampus can create a free version of this site for your own campus, with your own branding and domain name, or else how you can incorporate any of these searches into your own local serves and sites. Please contact Scott Leslie at sleslie@bccampus.ca or at 250-415-3490 for more details.

Wikieducator and the Center for Open and Sustainable Leearning have released the “OER Handbook for Educators” and invaluable guide to finding, creating and sharing open educational resources.  It is available for free at http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one