{"id":25,"date":"2017-03-08T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/?post_type=front-matter&p=25"},"modified":"2017-06-13T23:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T03:50:54","slug":"acknowledgments","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/front-matter\/acknowledgments\/","title":{"raw":"Acknowledgments","rendered":"Acknowledgments"},"content":{"raw":"We owe many thanks to Dr. David Porter (former Associate Vice President) for his leadership in open education\u00a0during his short tenure at BCIT albeit very impactful. We are equally indebted to BCcampus<\/a> and openBCIT<\/a> for co-sponsoring our\u00a0project.\r\n\r\nThis was a rare project in which we did not need to disentangle any bureaucratic red tape and that was due to rare people who were involved since day one of our work. Special thanks go to\u00a0James Rout (Associate Vice President)<\/span>, Ken Jeffery and\u00a0Lin Brander (co-chairs of the OpenEd Working Group) as well as<\/span>\u00a0Alison Griffin, Deirdre Grace, Holly Stanley and Rosario Passos\u00a0in alphabetical order. These individuals kept us motivated and we truly appreciate their friendliness in equal measures.\r\n\r\nAlso thanks to those whom we never met in person but received support within Open Grants.\r\n\r\nAnd last but not least, we would like\u00a0to thank our students, the entire Class of 2017 for their hard work, cooperation and feedback: Adrian Pontellini, Amar Manhas, April Derald Burias, Asmamaw Gebremariam, Brodie Pulles, Chelsea\u00a0 Chiao Shiun Lo, Cole Tewinkel, Darrick Cheung, Devin Hughes, Harjit Kang, Jesiah de Gouveia, John Aldana, Joshua Lewis, Kevin Hamann, Matthew Fermill, Nathan Kwong, Riley Walker, Ryan Ngun, Sean McGilp, Terence Ka Chun Pang, Tommy Yoo, Trevor Rigby, Tylar Hodson and Vangeli Asimakis.","rendered":"

We owe many thanks to Dr. David Porter (former Associate Vice President) for his leadership in open education\u00a0during his short tenure at BCIT albeit very impactful. We are equally indebted to BCcampus<\/a> and openBCIT<\/a> for co-sponsoring our\u00a0project.<\/p>\n

This was a rare project in which we did not need to disentangle any bureaucratic red tape and that was due to rare people who were involved since day one of our work. Special thanks go to\u00a0James Rout (Associate Vice President)<\/span>, Ken Jeffery and\u00a0Lin Brander (co-chairs of the OpenEd Working Group) as well as<\/span>\u00a0Alison Griffin, Deirdre Grace, Holly Stanley and Rosario Passos\u00a0in alphabetical order. These individuals kept us motivated and we truly appreciate their friendliness in equal measures.<\/p>\n

Also thanks to those whom we never met in person but received support within Open Grants.<\/p>\n

And last but not least, we would like\u00a0to thank our students, the entire Class of 2017 for their hard work, cooperation and feedback: Adrian Pontellini, Amar Manhas, April Derald Burias, Asmamaw Gebremariam, Brodie Pulles, Chelsea\u00a0 Chiao Shiun Lo, Cole Tewinkel, Darrick Cheung, Devin Hughes, Harjit Kang, Jesiah de Gouveia, John Aldana, Joshua Lewis, Kevin Hamann, Matthew Fermill, Nathan Kwong, Riley Walker, Ryan Ngun, Sean McGilp, Terence Ka Chun Pang, Tommy Yoo, Trevor Rigby, Tylar Hodson and Vangeli Asimakis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[3],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-25","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-acknowledgements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/25\/revisions\/247"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/25\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tpps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}