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Digital Resilience of ePortfolios During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for the Future delves into the transformative role that ePortfolios have played during and after this global crisis. This online open educational resource (OER) explores how ePortfolios have sustained educational and professional activities and fostered a new level of digital resilience. The book contains 43 chapters from 85 authors from around the globe.  These chapters have been categorized into the following seven themes:

1. Building Digital Resilience: ePortfolios in Times of Crisis
2. Navigating Challenges: Barriers to ePortfolio Implementation & Strategies for Sustainable ePortfolio Use
3. Rethinking Assessment: ePortfolios as Tools for Authentic Assessment
4. Design for Impact: Innovation in ePortfolio Structure and Function
5. Empowering Educators: ePortfolios in Teacher Education
6. Lifelong Learning: Professional Development Through ePortfolios
7. Looking Ahead: Future Directions for Digital Resilience in Education

Through case studies, practical guidance, and forward-looking insights, these chapters uncover how ePortfolios have been leveraged to overcome challenges and seize opportunities in the face of uncertainty. The chapters highlight the rich, lesson-filled journeys of transitioning to remote and hybrid models in diverse environments. As we look ahead, this book also explores the evolving landscape of ePortfolios, considering how they can continue to support student agency, lifelong learning, and professional growth in a post-pandemic world.

Ultimately, this book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the digital resilience fostered by ePortfolios during one of the most challenging periods in recent history. This book serves as a resource for understanding the transformative role of ePortfolios and provides actionable insights for leveraging their potential in the future. We hope that the insights and lessons shared here will inspire educators, students, and professionals to harness the full potential of ePortfolios, ensuring they remain a vital tool for success in an ever-changing digital landscape.

The SAIT edition of Introduction to Business offers a comprehensive introduction to key business concepts, covering essential functions such as management, human resources, marketing, operations and supply chain, and personal finance. It explores the structure of the Canadian business and economic system, highlighting the importance of business ethics and social responsibility within a global context. Designed to provide foundational knowledge, this resource prepares readers to better understand the Canadian business landscape.

Communication in Canadian Healthcare is a cloned version of Norquest College’s Introduction to Communications, which was adapted from various published resources but mostly from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. Most chapters have remained similar to Norquest’s text. Modules 6.1 (Ethics) and 6.2 (Professionalism) were cloned from Chapters 5 & 6, respectively, of Katherine Greene and Andrea Nelson’s Career Cornerstones: Establishing a Foundation for a Career in Healthcare (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0). The resulting modules have been lightly edited in order to work with the Communication in Canadian Healthcare course at Keyano College. These edits by Catharine Szpak at Keyano College include reformatting the original text as needed, adding content from other resources, replacing images and figures, and including original writing to introduce Canadian legislation, policies, and other information for the Canadian healthcare context. Module 6.3 (Diversity) by Catharine Szpak, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, except where otherwise noted.

There are two primary objectives in having developed the Transcultural Communications Workshop and the accompanying Facilitator Guide.

From the perspective of participants, Diversity and inclusion are keys to working successfully with others in groups, teams, classrooms, and workplaces. By developing their transcultural communication skills, participants learn more about themselves and understand how to better interact with others across their community. Completion of the workshop enhances the participants’ ability to have more inclusive communications across diverse populations.

For the facilitators, their role is to encourage all participants to contribute to the discussion, and to remind them that this is a no-fault environment. Facilitators also build and maintain an atmosphere where all participants feel comfortable speaking honestly and where differences of opinion are respected.

Utilizing the Facilitator Guide, aids facilitators in developing additional transcultural communications workshop facilitation skill and, in utilizing research proven Open Educational Resources, designed to strengthen participants’ transcultural communication skills. This will ensure that facilitators deliver inter-active workshops that support more inclusive participant communications across diverse populations.

This text addresses key organizational behaviour concepts including; communication, motivation theories, organizational change, personality, and team dynamics. Special emphasis is placed on current organizational trends including equity, diversity and equality. The end of chapter questions and activities are designed to help support students connecting with the theories and understanding how they could be applied in real world situations.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into six sections: What is OER?, Copyright & Licensing, Finding OER, Using OER at SAIT, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Each chapter is accompanied with learning objectives and most chapters feature interactive elements and opportunities for readers to engage with the text. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.

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This tutorial covers the most important library research skills needed by undergraduate biological sciences students, including searching for information, sources of information, how to read journal articles, citing and avoiding plagiarism. This tutorial is targeted towards biological sciences, but would be relevant to any science students.

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Book cover by Xenia Obonga and Demi Macintosh.