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About BCcampus Open Education

Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals was created by the Graphic Communications Open
Textbook Collective. This creation is a part of the B.C. Open Textbook project.

BCcampus Open Education began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making
post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing student costs through the
use of openly licensed textbooks and other OER. BCcampus supports the post-secondary institutions
of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful
learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the British
Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training, and the Hewlett Foundation.

Open textbooks are open educational resources (OER) created and shared in ways so that more people
have access to them. This is a different model than traditionally copyrighted materials. OER are defined
as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released
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under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Our open
textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons licence, and are offered in various e-book
formats free of charge, or as printed books that are available at cost. For more information about
open education in British Columbia, please visit the BCcampus Open Education website. If you are an
instructor who is using this book for a course, please fill out our Adoption of an Open Textbook form.

1. "Open Educational Resources," Hewlett Foundation, https://hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/ (accessed September 27,
2018).

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