New Address

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Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning
805 TRU Way
Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8

The online Course Guide and Editing Checklist have the new address.

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Our editing goal is to make learner-centred courses that meet the needs of our students. But how can we know if we have achieved this, since we seldom have the chance to meet Open Learning students face-to-face? One valuable resource is to check student feedback from post-course surveys in Tableau. This can indicate which specific…

Editors’ Community of Practice

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The editors’ team has started bi-weekly professional development seminars. We take turns facilitating the meetings, and we co-create the content to share our expertise and fill-in gaps in our knowledge. We have not chosen a way to reify or apply the new learning, but I’m sure a creative expression of our learning will present itself…

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Working Remotely

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Process Change!  Some editors may be working from home in the next few weeks.  What? Why?  The health authorities urge Canadians to practice social distancing, and we can do our work without being in close proximity to others in public spaces.  Photo by Dimitri Karastelev on Unsplash What Does This Mean?  We are still working! We will be doing…

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Workflow Emails to Production

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New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.

Searching for a Singular, Nonbinary-Gendered Reflexive Pronoun

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A recent human service (HUMS) course has a lesson about using critical reflection to uncover and deconstruct assumptions. The lesson explores how language is changing to acknowledge nonbinary-gendered people through pronouns. For example, a writer might choose “they” as a singular pronoun instead of “he” or “she”.  Using “they” as both singular and plural pronouns shouldn’t seem that…