Abstract

BCcampus is an online service connecting learners and educators to programs and resources across all public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. For the last three years the annual $1.5 million dollar BCcampus Online Program Development Fund (OPDF) has provided grants, based on an RFP process, to all BC public post secondary institutions. Funding increases the number of online programs, courses, virtual labs, learning objects, and tools available to students and educators in BC's public post secondary system. The OPDF fund encourages collaborative, inter-institutional partnerships to create these online resources. All OPDF developed learning resources become accessible across BC's public post secondary system for sharing and reuse via a learning resource repository. Developers choose to license their resource for sharing with the world via the Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org or within the BC public post secondary system using a derivative license created by BCcampus called the BC Commons http://www.bccommons.ca.

Citation

Stacey, P. (2005). BCcampus - Using Open Source Models for Online Higher Education Resources. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2005--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 160-162). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/21160/.

© 2005 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• higher education
• open source
• Post Secondary Education
• repository