YFile: Celebrate Ada Lovelace’s legacy at Libraries’ Wiki Edit-a-Thon

Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of women’s achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician and writer who also happened to be the very first computer programmer. She wrote what were essentially computer programs for the analytical engine that computing pioneer Charles Babbage conceptualized, but never actually […]

YFile: Opening our eyes to the possibilities of OER

The decision to devote this issue of “Innovatus” to Open Educational Resources (OER) is a deliberate one. Across Canada, there is a national conversation happening about how academic institutions use OER, support OER adoption and creation in the classroom, and how OER facilitate innovative pedagogy.  As the articles in this issue of “Innovatus” show, instructors […]