Hello!
I want to share this new article that was recently published by KPU faculty member Deirdre Maultsaid and TRU faculty member Michelle Harrison. This publication is the result of Deirdre’s year working with us as an Open Education Research Fellow and explores student perspectives on Open Pedagogy.
Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives<https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/6901>
Abstract: As a response to the increasing commercialization of postsecondary education, educators argue for a practice of care in education. Open pedagogy (OP) seems like an ideal practice where care, trust, and inclusion can be realized. OP is characterized as a democratic and collaborative pedagogical practice, in which students and teachers work to co-create learning and knowledge using openly licensed materials, open platforms, and other open processes. The purposes of this study were, first, to reveal ways students in postsecondary institutions perceive care and, second, to determine how students suggest OP can be used to create an open/caring learning process. A task-oriented focus group method engaged students from four teaching-focused institutions. The students created open cases on social issues for class discussion and reflected on care and OP processes in postsecondary settings. Using four elements of the ethics of care—attentiveness, responsibility, competence, and trustworthiness—as conceptual categories, the study examined students’ experience of care and care in OP using affective coding and thematic analysis. The results showed that through OP, with teacher support and explicitly designed practices of care, students can assert their agency, have quintessential roles in creating and participating in highly relevant curriculum and importantly, care about others, and be cared for. OP is a process able to involve a diverse population of students and embody care as an all-encompassing practice.
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Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this universityKwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Hi everyone!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at KPU:
Stitched sewing techniques, how-to, and more
By: Heather Clark and Catherine Hay
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Within the fashion, sewing, and textile classrooms it is a challenge to find a textbook on the topic of sewing that covers the range of skills and techniques taught within these learning spaces. Typically to supplement student learning, handouts will be utilized along with in-class, and in-person demos. The open-source and online format of this OER will enable educators to continually update the resource to meet current student needs, learning outcomes, and reflect best practices within the apparel and fashion industry. Content in this OER supports skills and knowledge learned within the classroom while providing supportive resources for learners. This open-source learning resource contains details and step-by-step instructions, supported with images, videos, and text.
This resource will be continually worked on, with videos, text, and information being added. The vision for this resource is to provide learning resources to the sewing community – an array of learners, with multiple ways of ‘how-to’.
Visit the Website<https://wordpress.kpu.ca/stitched/>
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Learn about KPU’s Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS>
* Browse our complete catalogue<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu>
* Learn more about KPU Open Education<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
* Follow us on Twitter @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen>
We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this university.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Dear colleagues,
BCcampus is seeking events happening from October 23 to 29 for International Open Access Week 2023<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>. This year's theme is "Community over Commercialization,"<https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme/en> so I am excited to see what events will be happening around the province in honour of this important topic.
If your institution is hosting a public event that BCcampus has not yet been made aware of, please let me know so that your event may be added to the BCcampus Events calendar<https://bccampus.ca/calendar/>.
Best,
Arianna Cheveldave she/her
Coordinator, Open Education
Hear my name<https://namedrop.io/ariannacheveldave>
Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: arianna-cheveldave<https://www.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave/>
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BCcampus, Vancouver
Learning. Doing. Leading.
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BCcampus acknowledges the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich), and the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) Peoples, on whose traditional territories we are privileged to live, work, and learn. Through our work, we are learning to incorporate Indigenous epistemologies into our actions and understandings, supporting decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenization to advocate systemic changes in the post-secondary environment of B.C.
Hi everyone!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at KPU:
¡Voy en camino! Spanish Language and Intercultural Learning
Written by: Constanza Rojas-Primus and Ana Robles
Primary Subject: Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
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¡Voy en camino! means “I’m on my way” in Spanish. Since learning an additional language and the culture is a journey in itself, ¡Voy en camino! captures the voyage to get there. ¡Voy en camino! has been created to serve the first two introductory Spanish language courses at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and to solidify our commitment to Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC). All units of study are designed to be interactive with embedded audio, videos and links for learners to practice the material along the way. Learners can self-pace and self-test their knowledge both individually and with the assistance of an instructor. ¡Voy en camino! has plenty of opportunities to practice writing and speaking with downloadable capabilities becoming a Spanish teaching and learning tool that promotes and supports sustainable renewable learning. With its digital format and open publication ¡Voy en camino! is also meant to join the Spanish teaching open education community and provide access to learning to interested users along the way.
Visit the Book<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/voy-en-camino/>
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Learn about KPU’s Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS>
* Browse our complete catalogue<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu>
* Learn more about KPU Open Education<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
* Follow us on Twitter @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen>
We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this university.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Dear colleagues,
You are invited to participate in the 2023 Pan-Canadian Digital Learning Survey.
The purpose of the 2023 Pan-Canadian Digital Learning Survey<https://bayviewanalytics.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eWmscCwDTrVCS4C> is to explore critical issues in digital learning and to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital learning at publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Canada. The primary objective of the research is to provide institutional leaders and key interest groups in Canadian higher education with valuable information as they develop institutional strategies.
Please complete and submit the survey no later than June 30, 2023.
More information is available here: 2023 Pan-Canadian Digital Learning Survey Details [PDF]<http://www.cdlra-acrfl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-Pan-Canadian-Digi…>.
If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact CDLRA Executive Director, Dr. Nicole Johnson at nicole.johnson(a)cdlra-acrfl.ca or 604-825-0582.
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Dear colleagues,
You are invited to register for the Spring 2023 Workshop<https://etug.ca/2023/04/03/spring-workshop-2023-registration/> hosted by the Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG).
In this two-day online and in-person workshop — titled “Future-proof Learning Design: The Integration of Digital Literacy, Inclusive Tech, and AI” — we will showcase how instructors, education developers, and education technologists are approaching design. For example, we’ll explore how digital literacy, inclusive technology, and AI could be “baked” into courses and how instructors are supported in making design decisions around technology. We’ll also consider the ongoing communication and capacity-building at institutions around digital literacy, accessibility, and AI, such as how teaching and learning centres and libraries get the word out to instructors and students about new approaches and resources.
Join us online via Zoom or in-person at Kwantlen Polytechnic University Lansdowne Road Campus in Richmond, B.C.,<https://www.kpu.ca/richmond> for this 2-day hybrid event, sponsored by BCcampus.
* Day 1: Thursday, June 1, 2023: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Time
* Day 2: Friday, June 2, 2023: 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM Pacific Time
* Schedule available here.<https://etug.ca/2023/04/25/spring-workshop-2023-schedule/>
Workshop Rates: 2-day Registration Only
* In-Person: $200 CAD + GST (light meals and snacks will be provided)
* Online: $150 CAD + GST
* Students: Free
In-person registration closes at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on Friday, May 26. Online registration will be open until the very end of the event.
To learn more about this event, please visit the ETUG website<https://etug.ca/>.
Best,
Arianna Cheveldave [Hear my name]<http://nmdrp.me/ariannacheveldave>
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
Email: acheveldave(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn: ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns: She/her
Need help with LaTeX<https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes#What_is_LaTe…>? Contact latexsupport(a)bccampus.ca
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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), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.
Dear B.C. Open Education Community,
BCcampus has $20,000 available to fund the adaptation of the open textbook Introduction to Psychology, 1st Canadian Edition<https://collection.bccampus.ca/textbooks/introduction-to-psychology-1st-can…> to make it more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
About the Call for Proposals
The full text of the call, including an application template and rubric we will use to evaluate applications are available here: Call for Proposals: Open Textbook Adaptation – Introduction to Psychology<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/open-textbook-adaptation-cal…>.
We would like this project to be collaborative and have contributors with different areas of expertise. As such, we ask that applications are submitted on behalf of a team. We encourage teams to have representation across roles, departments, and institutions.
Applications are due by the end of the day on May 26, 2023. The project is expected to run from July 2023 to March 2023.
Virtual Information Session
I will be hosting a virtual information session about this project in Zoom on April 28 at 1pm PDT. This is an opportunity to learn more about the project, ask questions, and connect with possible collaborators.
Register for the Information Session<https://events.humanitix.com/2023-open-textbook-info-session-april-28>.
If you have questions, please reach out to me directly at jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca>. And please help us get the word out by forwarding this email to whoever you think may be interested!
Sincerely,
Josie Gray
Josie Gray, MDes [she/her/hers] Hear my name<https://namedrop.io/josiegray>
Manager, Production & Publishing, BCcampus
Cell: 778-584-7808<mailto:778-584-7808> • Email: jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca> • Twitter: @josiea_g<https://twitter.com/josiea_g>
Learning. Doing. Leading.
BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • @BCcampus<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • #BCcampus<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash>
As a settler, I am grateful to live and work on Moh’kins’tsis on Treaty 7 lands, which includes the territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Tsuut’ina Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley Nations). This place is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
I am also grateful for the time I’ve spent on unceded lands of the Lkwungen-speaking Peoples and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, where I completed post-secondary education and started my work in open education. As well I am also grateful for the time I spent on unceded Tsimshian lands, where I grew up, and Treaty 6 territory, where much of my extended family lives.
Dear B.C. Open Education Community,
BCcampus has $17,500 available to fund the adaptation of the open textbook Introduction to Sociology, 3rd Canadian Edition [PDF]<https://bccampus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Introduction-to-Sociology-3r…> to make it more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
About the Call for Proposals
The full text of the call, including the most up-to-date version of the textbook, an application template, and the rubric we will use to evaluate applications are available here: Call for Proposals: Open Textbook Adaptation – Introduction to Sociology<https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/open-textbook-adaptation-cal…>
We would like this project to be collaborative and have contributors with different areas of expertise. As such, we ask that applications are submitted on behalf of a team. We encourage teams to have representation across roles, departments, and institutions.
Applications are due by the end of the day on May 26, 2023. The project is expected to run from July 2023 to March 2023.
Virtual Information Session
BCcampus will be hosting a virtual information session about this project in Zoom on April 28 at 1pm PDT. This is an opportunity to learn more about the project, ask questions, and connect with possible collaborators.
Register for the Information Session<https://events.humanitix.com/2023-open-textbook-info-session-april-28>.
If you have questions, please reach out to me directly at jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca>. And please help us get the word out by forwarding this email to whoever you think may be interested!
Sincerely,
Josie Gray
Josie Gray, MDes [she/her/hers] Hear my name<https://namedrop.io/josiegray>
Manager, Production & Publishing, BCcampus
Cell: 778-584-7808<mailto:778-584-7808> • Email: jgray(a)bccampus.ca<mailto:jgray@bccampus.ca> • Twitter: @josiea_g<https://twitter.com/josiea_g>
Learning. Doing. Leading.
BCcampus.ca<https://bccampus.ca/> • @BCcampus<https://twitter.com/BCcampus> • #BCcampus<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCcampus?src=hash>
As a settler, I am grateful to live and work on Moh’kins’tsis on Treaty 7 lands, which includes the territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations), the Tsuut’ina Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley Nations). This place is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
I am also grateful for the time I’ve spent on unceded lands of the Lkwungen-speaking Peoples and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, where I completed post-secondary education and started my work in open education. As well I am also grateful for the time I spent on unceded Tsimshian lands, where I grew up, and Treaty 6 territory, where much of my extended family lives.
Hello!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at KPU:
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
Edited by: Rebecca Yoshizawa
Primary Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
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This workbook is designed for first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies courses, focusing on the Canadian context. It is divided into five topics - Theory and Concepts, Institutions, Work, Family and Intimate Relationships, and Bodies and Health. This workbook does not replace a textbook, instructor teachings through lectures, class discussion, class assignments, or other standard undergraduate course materials. Instead, this is an activity book: a course companion, working alongside and with those course materials. It is designed to build competency, capacity, and confidence with course materials, concepts, and arguments. It does this by embracing the concepts of embodied learning, iterative scaffolding, and reflexive insight. "Embodied" means doing things with your body and not just your mind; "scaffolding" means breaking things down into constituent parts that can be gathered together to build something bigger; and "reflexive" means thinking about oneself in relation to broad concepts and contexts around us. The workbook presents four types of content. (1) Each chapter has one or two pages of written content deemed "Insights to Think About," which are summative guides to help students grab onto big ideas. (2) The chapters also have "Words to Try," encouraging a usable lexicon. (3) Chapters have thoughtfully designed "Activities." The activities help students to get ideas down, give those ideas meaning and order, and prepare students to do more engaged work in course conversations and higher-stakes assignments. (4) Finally, each section ends with "My Insights On," where students can record their "big picture" ideas and things they want to explore more in their course discussions and other assignments.
Visit the Book<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/genderincanadaworkbook/>
Watch Promo Video<https://media.kpu.ca/media/Gender+in+CanadaA+A+Companion+Workbook/0_shxk8fqb>
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Learn about Open Education at KPU
* Browse our Pressbooks catalogue<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu>
* Learn more about KPU Open Education<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
* Follow us on Twitter @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen>
We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this university.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Hello!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at KPU:
Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion – 2nd Edition
Edited by: Deirdre Maultsaid
Now with 5 additional cases!
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“Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion – 2nd Edition<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/social-issue-cases-2e/>” was inspired by students and co-authored by people who are usually under-represented in higher education. These realistic, emotional cases are designed to help students grapple with ethical issues related to discrimination, diversity, equity, inclusion and general social issues in the workplace. These valuable cases are appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in the humanities, business, healthcare, agriculture, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, land use studies, law and more. In addition to the background description and scenario, each case comes with modifiable discussion questions, notes on teaching strategies, and a reading list.
This OER was funded by KPU | Open Education’s OER Grant Program<https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants>.
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Learn about Open Education at KPU
* Browse our Pressbooks catalogue<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu>
* Learn more about KPU Open Education<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
* Follow us on Twitter @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen>
We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to this university.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
