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OER Grant Program—Now accepting applications!
by Urooj Nizami 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants   Support KPU’s commitment to open education by applying to the OER Grant program. Regular faculty can apply for up to $4000 in funding to create OER or up to $2000 to adapt existing OER! In Spring 2020, Statistics Canada collected data from over 100,000 postsecondary students reporting on the impacts of COVID-19<https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2020032-eng.htm>. Forty-eight percent of students with a job reported either losing their job or being temporarily laid off. Results from a 2017 study<http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3012/4206> of BC postsecondary institutions, including KPU, showed that 54% students did not purchase a required textbook at least once. Study after study, including at KPU<https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.5>, has also shown that students have achieved the same or better outcomes when using OER. Join over 400 of your colleagues who actively engage with open education by saving students money and increasing accessibility to educational resources. Participating in the OER Grant program can enrich student learning and provide an opportunity to explore your pedagogical practice in a collaborative and supportive environment. Adapt OER by: * Updating or localizing existing textbooks  <https://libguides.kpu.ca/opentextbooks> * Incorporating interactive components through H5P applications<https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications>   * Developing ancillary resources (such as question banks), including collaborating with students through open pedagogical practices   Create OER by: * Authoring new open textbooks in areas of need   * Creating open courseware, including videos, lecture slides, learning activities, and more   * Establishing open access journals   To apply and for more information visit kpu.ca/open/grants <https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants> Applications are now open and will be accepted until September 1, 2020. 🔗<https://media.kpu.ca/media/What+are+Open+Educational+ResourcesF/0_8zhj26kp> OER are materials that are freely accessible and openly available for anyone to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute. This could include images, videos, interactive simulations, worksheets, and of course textbooks. For more information or support with open educational practices and OER, please contact the Office of Open Education: www.kpu.ca/open/connect <https://www.kpu.ca/open/connect>

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Call for faculty representatives on the Open Education Working Group
by Rajiv Jhangiani 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Dear colleagues, The Open Education Working Group (OEWG)<https://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg> brings together key stakeholders from across the institution to provide advice and support for KPU’s open education initiatives, which include the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources, the development of Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs, and the embrace of innovative open pedagogies. The OEWG meets once a semester when it adjudicates KPU’s OER Grant program<https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants>, but conducts most of its activities asynchronously in between those meetings. As the terms of two of our current faculty representatives is soon coming to an end, this is a call for expressions of interest from faculty who would like to join this dynamic group for a two-year term. To read more about the mandate, composition, and operating procedures of this group, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg Please submit all expressions of interest to open(a)kpu.ca<mailto:open(a)kpu.ca> Thank you very much, Rajiv [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him) Acting Vice Provost, Teaching & Learning & Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/tlcommons<http://www.kpu.ca/tlcommons> | www.kpu.ca/cps<http://www.kpu.ca/cps> | www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Administrative Coordinator: Janice Webster t 604.598.6215 e janice.webster(a)kpu.ca<mailto:janice.webster(a)kpu.ca> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples.

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Welcome to Urooj Nizami, KPU’s Open Education Strategist!
by Rajiv Jhangiani 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Good morning everyone, I am delighted to announce that Urooj Nizami will soon be joining the KPU community, as our new Open Education Strategist. Urooj comes to us from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she lead the institution’s Textbook Affordability Project<https://library.temple.edu/categories/textbook-affordability-project> in her role as resident librarian. Urooj brings a strong commitment to social justice and inclusion in all of her work and recently presented at the Open Education Global Conference on her work on Open Pedagogy through Community-Directed, Student-Led Partnerships<https://openpraxis.org/~openprax/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/1028/643>. Urooj is excited to return home to Canada and discover a new coast with the guidance of her soon-to-be colleagues. Please join me in welcoming Urooj to our university community! [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him) Acting Vice Provost, Teaching & Learning & Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/tlcommons<http://www.kpu.ca/tlcommons> | www.kpu.ca/cps<http://www.kpu.ca/cps> | www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Administrative Coordinator: Janice Webster t 604.598.6215 e janice.webster(a)kpu.ca<mailto:janice.webster(a)kpu.ca> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples.

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KPU Open Education Summer 2020 newsletter
by Rajiv Jhangiani 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

Good morning everyone, I am pleased to share KPU Open Education’s Summer 2020 newsletter. This latest issue highlights six external grants recently awarded to KPU faculty for OER projects, seven recently-published open textbooks, upcoming workshops and funding opportunities, and exciting news about a new partnership between KPU and the Open University of Sri Lanka. Cheers, Rajiv [logo gif] Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him) Acting Vice Provost, Teaching & Learning & Associate Vice Provost, Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca> www.kpu.ca/tlcommons<http://www.kpu.ca/tlcommons> | www.kpu.ca/cps<http://www.kpu.ca/cps> | www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Administrative Coordinator: Janice Webster t 604.598.6215 e janice.webster(a)kpu.ca<mailto:janice.webster(a)kpu.ca> This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples.

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Congratulations Michelle Nakano, BCcampus grant recipient!
by Teaching and Learning Commons 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Congratulations to Science & Horticulture instructor Michelle Nakano on receiving one of five BCcampus open education development grants as part of the Open Homework Systems (OHS) project. The grants will be used to add H5P<https://h5p.org/> interactive formative assessment activities to five Pressbooks open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. Learn about the grant and read about Michelle's project here: https://bccampus.ca/2020/07/06/homework-high-five-bccampus-awards-five-open… Michelle and her colleague Betty Cunnin were previously awarded a BCcampus grant<https://bccampus.ca/2019/12/03/oer-for-the-trades-grant-recipients/> to develop an open textbook for the Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Apprenticeship (Levels 1 and 2<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/plant-identification/>). This April, Michelle received an additional grant<https://bccampus.ca/2020/04/28/expanding-open-education-in-the-trades/> which allowed her to continue her project on Line F (Levels 3 and 4).

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Zero Textbook Cost Pathway to Associate of Science Degree by BCcampus
by Arianna Cheveldave 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, A Zero Textbook Cost pathway to an Associate of Science degree<https://bccampus.ca/projects/open-education/pathway-to-associate-of-science…> is now available, based on existing OER that align with core requirements for Associate of Science programs in B.C. This pathway is designed such that a student could feasibly complete an Associate of Science degree without spending any money on textbooks, as they would only use OER and other free resources. In addition, BCcampus is awarding a grant to Thompson Rivers University so that they may develop their own institution-specific pathway. You can read more about that and the development of BCcampus' pathway in this blog post about the Associate of Science pathway<https://bccampus.ca/2020/07/07/a-pathway-to-open-for-science-programs-in-b-…>. Best, Arianna Cheveldave Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her ________________________________ I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

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BCcampus Faculty Pivot to Teaching Online survey
by Arianna Cheveldave 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, BCcampus is currently conducting the Faculty Pivot to Teaching Online survey<https://survey.bccampus.ca/index.php/855916?lang=en>, which seeks to understand how B.C. post-secondary instructors adapted to the sudden need to teach online and what they will do in the fall semester. The survey will close on Monday, July 13th. If you are able and willing, please take the survey and share with your contacts and online. Best, Arianna Cheveldave Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her ________________________________ I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), W̱SÁNEĆ, and Songhees Nation of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.

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BCcampus Calls for Proposals: Open Online Courses and ZTC Program
by Rajiv Jhangiani 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, BCcampus has recently opened two different calls for proposals that are both closing in July: The first call for proposals is for the Identification, Evaluation, and Development of Open Online Courses and Open Education Resources<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/call-for-proposals-identific…> in Business Management, Math, Introduction to University Writing, Psychology, and Business Communications, and closes on July 15, 2020. Proposals will be reviewed as they are received, rather than once the call closes, as the deliverables deadline is August 15.

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OER Research Fellows 2020-2021 Application
by Teaching and Learning Commons 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

The Open Education Group<http://openedgroup.org/> is accepting applications for 2020-2021 OER Research Fellows. More information on the application and the fellowship is available here: https://byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dj5ITUWTogyKvhr Deadline to apply is July 10, 2020.

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KPU's 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellows
by Teaching and Learning Commons 29 May '20

29 May '20

Our annual Open Pedagogy Fellowship provides support for faculty to design "renewable assignments," authentic assessments that help students become agents of change in their communities. The assignments are collaboratively developed by multi-disciplinary teams across three institutions-KPU, Montgomery College (Maryland, USA), and Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona, USA). The conceptual framework on which this fellowship is based is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<https://en.unesco.org/sdgs> (UN SDGs), which is a set of 17 goals that address a wide range of social issues, such as poverty, inequality, climate change, and peace and justice. The faculty teams design their course assignments over the summer and deploy them over the following academic year. A student showcase in the Spring provides an opportunity for the wider university community to appreciate the students' contributions. We are pleased to announce that KPU's 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellows are: Andrea Niosi (Marketing) Constanza Rojas-Primus (Languages and Cultures) David Sadoway (Geography) Dorothy Barenscott (Art History) Please join us in congratulating our latest fellows! For more information about the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship (including examples of assignments from the 2019 Fellows) please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship

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