Hi All,
In case you haven’t heard, Terry Berg has received an Award for Excellence in Open Education from BC Campus! Congratulations, Terry!
Read all about it here: Award for Excellence in Open Education<https://bccampus.ca/2019/10/18/award-for-excellence-in-open-education-terry…>.
Cheers,
Aimee
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Dear colleagues,
Yesterday at an Open Access Week event<https://www.kpu.ca/library/Open_Access> at our Richmond campus (co-hosted with UBC, SFU, BCIT, and Langara) we announced the launch of our seventh Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program<https://www.kpu.ca/news/2019/10/22/kpu-launches-first-zero-textbook-cost-de…> in the form of the Bachelor of Arts Degree in General Studies. This is the first four-year ZTC program in North America and builds on more than 700 unique courses that are now offered as ZTC. As of this semester we have saved KPU students more than $3.1 million in textbook costs. The new program means that an individual student could save more than $5000 over the course of their B.A.
There is, of course, an enormous amount of work that goes into developing a large program like this and I am especially grateful to our colleagues in the Library, members of our Open Education Working Group<https://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg>, the Bookstore print-on-demand team, the Office of the Registrar’s Scheduling team, Office of Planning & Accountability staff, and of course the more than 300 faculty across every Faculty and School at the institution who are actively participating in this initiative.
For more info:
News release: https://www.kpu.ca/news/2019/10/22/kpu-launches-first-zero-textbook-cost-de…
Promo video: https://media.kpu.ca/media/ZTC+promo+video+Oct+2019/0_nmkujptk
Have a wonderful day,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
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The Open Education Working Group (OEWG)<https://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg>, in collaboration with the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA)<https://kusa.ca/>, has established an OER adoption grant to support faculty who wish to adopt OER in place of commercial textbooks and to recognize the efforts involved in implementing this change.
Individuals or teams teaching multi-section courses may apply for the grant. Successful individual applicants are eligible to receive up to a $500 towards the professional development activity of their choosing. Teams may receive up to $1,500 towards a group event, project or activity. Annual funding for the OER adoption grant fund is $10,000.
Ultimately, the purpose of the OER adoption grant is to reduce the cost of education to students while maximizing access to, and use of, textbooks and other learning resources, by all students--regardless of their financial circumstances.
Note: It is recognized that for pedagogical and practical reasons it may not be possible to adopt OER in every course/discipline.
Application guidelines
• Applicants must be regular faculty members.
• Faculty members or teams may only submit one application per course.
• The open textbook/OER must be a required resource for the course, replacing a commercial textbook or resource.
• The adoption of the OER must reduce the cost to students and increase their use of a learning resource.
• The number of course sections offered per year will be considered when adjudicating applications.
• The grant will be awarded to faculty or teams following their successful adoption of an open textbook or other OER.
• The OEWG will put out a call for applications each semester.
• The OEWG will review applications until the available funding has been allocated.
Note: The application form is attached to this email.
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) is an international online mentoring program, supporting the development and implementation of open educational resources that include and address at least one of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/>. This Call follows the first two cohorts of the OE4BW program where 49 Open Educational Resources (OER) projects were developed by 49 participants under the supervision of 67 mentors, coming from 25 countries from all over the globe. This included KPU’s own Christina Page (The Learning Centres) who served as a mentor and Andrea Niosi (Marketing) who was a participant.
So far, the developers and mentors were regionally coordinated by Hub leaders in the following three Regional Hubs:
* Africa and Europe Hub,
* Asia and South Pacific Hub,
* North and South America Hub.
In this year’s OE4BW Call, a new, topic-oriented SDG7 Hub (i.e. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all) is added.
For more information about this program and information about how to apply visit: http://oe4bw.ijs.si/participate/
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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The Festival of Learning is B.C.’s largest celebration of teaching and learning in higher education and will take place from May 11-13, 2020. Held every two years and welcoming about 500 attendees from all over B.C. and beyond, the Festival is a great opportunity for faculty, students, leaders, librarians, learning designers, educational technologists and accessibility/ disability educators and professionals to network and learn together.
This year’s theme is disruption and transformation in post-secondary education. The deadline for proposals is November 15, 2019.
We welcome your proposals from all areas of higher education as we grapple with key questions, such as:
* How are open educational practices (OEP) transforming teaching and learning? How do OEP disrupt traditional power structures and narratives in education? How are the open education and open access movements challenging the status quo? Where are they falling short?
* How are you “disrupting” teaching and learning practices, policies, and processes? What disruptions call for creative adaptation and change?
* How are you engaging in reconciliation, Indigenous pedagogy, decolonization, or Indigenization in your teaching and learning practices?
* Technology is often seen as a disruptor and catalyst for transformation. How can we effectively and creatively use educational technologies to support learning?
* What transformations are needed to make post-secondary institutions and learning environments inclusive and accessible to support every student?
* As educators, how do we respond skillfully to the global climate crisis? What is our role and responsibility to the planet at this critical time?
See the call for proposals at: https://festival.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals-2019/
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>
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Happy October everyone!
I am pleased to share KPU Open Education’s first newsletter<https://www.kpu.ca/sites/default/files/Teaching%20and%20Learning/KPU%20Open…>. Our first issue includes:
* New milestones for the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program
* Information about OER Adoption, Adaptation, and Creation Grants
* Information about the KPU Library’s Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)
* Highlights from this summer’s UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
* Spotlight on Arley Cruthers, one of KPU’s Open Education Champions
* Upcoming events and professional development opportunities
Download the KPU Open Education Fall 2019 newsletter<https://www.kpu.ca/sites/default/files/Teaching%20and%20Learning/KPU%20Open…>.
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
t 604.599.3253 e rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>
www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
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