{"id":264,"date":"2021-09-18T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/?p=264"},"modified":"2021-09-18T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T23:17:50","slug":"there-is-nothing-ever-static-it-is-always-growing-or-building-or-changing-amanda-coolidge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/there-is-nothing-ever-static-it-is-always-growing-or-building-or-changing-amanda-coolidge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is nothing ever static, it is always growing or building or changing\u201d — Amanda Coolidge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the pleasure of hearing Amanda Coolidge, Director of Open Education BCCampus, speak at the 2021 MALAT Virtual Symposium on Open Education: what it is; what it does and its amazing impact!\u00a0 The idea of open education and open textbooks was a foreign concept to me at the time.\u00a0 I recall thinking about how much I had paid for my university textbooks.\u00a0 How some were hardly used and how they were now gathering dust on my bookshelf.\u00a0 While listening to Amanda speak, I also thought about how amazing it would have been to customise some of these textbooks based on personal experiences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have chosen Amanda Coolidge based on her significant contributions and advocacy work in the field of Open education and Open textbooks in British Columbia.\u00a0 Highlights of her and her team\u2019s work include:<\/span><\/p>\n