Course Editing Team (March 2016)
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Show Diversity
BycwardWhere possible, we try to include examples of people from other cultures or depictions of the diversity of Canadian society in the course. Showing people from diverse backgrounds prepares students for life in a culturally diverse society and helps dispel preconceived ideas about others, which we hope increases the students’ competence for living in an…
Attribution and Copyright Standards
Open Learning course materials frequently incorporate openly licensed, public domain, and permissioned resources. Editors play an important quality assurance role by ensuring attribution information is complete, accurate, and consistently presented. Editors are not responsible for determining copyright permissions but should identify missing or inconsistent attribution information. When Attribution Is Required Attribution should accompany: Creative Commons…
Interculturalization and Indigenization Academic Goals
BycwardOpen Learning’s editing team works in support of TRU’s intercultural and indigenization academic goals. (See, for example, http://www.tru.ca/about/academics/understanding.html.) This article that Gail shared on indigenization may be of interest in our work: Academica Group. (2016, September 19). How indigenization can support students while honouring reconciliation. Retrieved from http://forum.academica.ca/forum/how-indigenization-can-support-students-while-honouring-reconciliation.
TRU-OL Social Sciences Style Guide
BycwardThanks Mona for bringing this up: Some older courses include a link to TRU-OL Social Sciences Style Guide in the course guide. This guide was created to help students write academic papers. It tells how to write citations and gives instructions on the formatting and structure of papers. Unfortunately, the document is out-of-date for MLA and APA citations. For example, it refers to the fifth edition…
Editing Tip: MS Word Shortcuts
BycwardMS Word shortcuts can help to do repetitive stuff faster: Toggle on/off track changes Ctrl + Shift + E Insert a comment Alt + R, C Return to your last edit point Shift + F5 Save Ctrl + S Find Ctrl + F Undo / Redo Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y Select all…