The Open Education Working Group is pleased to announce expanded support for the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open textbooks and other open educational resources (OER). Three types of grants<https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants> are now available:
1. OER Adoption Grant
With the generous support of the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA)<https://kusa.ca/>, OER Adoption Grants are now available to support faculty who wish to adopt OER in place of commercial textbooks and aimed at recognizing the effort 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. Applications will be adjudicated by the Open Education Working Group<https://www.kpu.ca/open/oewg> on a rolling basis until funds are spent.
2. OER Adaptation Grant
OER Adaptation projects may include proposals to adapt existing open textbooks by updating or localizing them, making them interactive by incorporating H5P applications<https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications>, or developing ancillary resources (such a question banks) to support existing open textbooks, including in collaboration with students (via open pedagogy) or with other faculty collaborators.
OER Adaptation Grants are funded by the Office of Open Education and adjudicated by the Open Education Working Group. Grant recipients receive funding up to $2000, which may be used to hire student assistants, pay honoraria to external collaborators, and more. In-kind assistance is also offered through Open Education, the Library, and Teaching & Learning Commons. Applications are reviewed three times a year (May 1, September 1, and January 15) until the available funding has been allocated.
3. OER Creation Grant
OER Creation projects may include proposals to author new open textbooks in areas of need. In addition to project funding up to $2000 and in-kind assistance from Open Education, the Library, and Teaching & Learning Commons, successful applicants for OER Creation Grants will also receive up to $2000 towards any professional development activity of their choosing.
The eligibility, eligible expenses, expectations, in-kind contributions, evaluation criteria, and application process for OER Creation grants are identical to OER Adaptation Grants.
For more information about each of these grants (including the application forms), please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Hello everyone,
I hope you are enjoying the start of a lovely weekend. In case you missed the announcements from the Teaching & Learning Commons, I wanted to share that Arley Cruthers (Applied Communications), Andrea Niosi (Marketing), and I will be co-facilitating a workshop on Introduction to Open Pedagogy on Monday from 12-1:30pm in A2410 at KPU Surrey. If you are available please drop in and join us! More info & registration at: https://www.kpu.ca/events/introduction-open-pedagogy-surrey
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Good morning everyone,
I am delighted to share the Teaching & Learning Commons’ call for applications for a Teaching Fellow in Open Education. Teaching Fellows provide an educational development leadership opportunity for KPU faculty members. They are seconded from their respective faculty appointments through partial time releases. There are two Teaching Fellow positions posted at the moment, one focused on Interculturalization & Internationalization, and the other on Open Education.
The responsibilities of the Open Education Teaching Fellow will include:
1. Supporting the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources (OER) within their program area, with an eventual goal of developing and launching a new Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program.
2. Providing hands-on support for faculty, including for discovering relevant OER, Pressbooks training, and other support as needed.
3. Creating or adapting OER as needed to support the ZTC program development, following the principles outlined in the BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit.
4. Participating actively in open education events at KPU.
5. Communicating and share work with the KPU community.
For more details and the application process, please see: https://www.kpu.ca/teaching-and-learning/teaching-fellow-applications
Submit your application to tlcommons(a)kpu.ca<mailto:tlcommons@kpu.ca> by 8 AM, Friday, October 11, 2019. Applications will be reviewed by the Selection Committee and short-listed applicants will be invited to interview by month’s end.
Thank you very much,
Rajiv
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Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Dear colleagues,
KPU Open Education recently became a partner of New Zealand’s national Centre for Open Education Practice. They are offering a free and online PD opportunity for educators who wish to learn the basics of OER and Creative Commons licensing. Please see below (and attached) for the details. The course begins on October 7.
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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From: OER Foundation <no-reply(a)bounce.oeru.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 6:55 PM
To: Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca>
Subject: [COEP] Free professional development opportunity for educators
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Dear Rajiv
Free online course to master the basics of OER and Creative Commons
The OERu has partnered with the ICDE 2019 World Conference on Online Learning<https://mautic.oeru.org/r/0e47916f9edbd26a03239e93c?ct=YTo1OntzOjY6InNvdXJj…> to provide a free professional development opportunity in open education. This free course is open for all educators.
Commencing on 7 October 2019, the UNESCO / ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER) in New Zealand will facilitate a cohort offering of the OERu's micro-course: Open Education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world<https://mautic.oeru.org/r/7f04532ecc0ba9f8179c6e09e?ct=YTo1OntzOjY6InNvdXJj…> (LiDA103).
Registration link: https://oer.nz/wcol2019<https://mautic.oeru.org/r/974a874a6f04fe48a9de39d49?ct=YTo1OntzOjY6InNvdXJj…>
Please share the gift of knowledge with friends, colleagues, and institutions who may be interested in this professional development opportunity. We also attach a poster you can use to promote the course at your institution.
Thanks for your help!
Best wishes
Wayne Mackintosh
UNESCO / ICDE Chair in OER
Managing Director of the OER Foundation
Email: wayne(a)oerfoundation.org
Towards more sustainable higher education
New Zealand's national Centre for Open Education Practice
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Hi all
There are a few events listed below worth noting planned for Open Access week<http://www.openaccessweek.org/> which takes place October 21-27. All are welcome. Note: you need to register for the Decolonize Open afternoon. We hope to see you there! You can keep up with how KPU is celebrating Open Access week by monitoring our events page at https://www.kpu.ca/library/Open_Access.
1. Can we Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event at KPU Richmond
Join Langara, Kwantlen, BCIT, SFU, and UBC for an exciting half-day celebration of Open Access Week (Oct 21-27, 2019). This year’s theme from SPARC is Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge. Our keynote speaker, Jessie Loyer, will explore this question alongside participants through the lens of decolonization. The conversation will continue with local panelists engaged in open knowledge work.
Light refreshments will be served courtesy of our partner BCcampus<https://bccampus.ca/>. All are welcome.
Date: Tuesday, October 22 2019
Time: 12:30pm-1pm (check-in); 1pm-4pm (program)
Place: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 8771 Lansdowne Road, Richmond BC; Wilson School of Design, room 4900
Cost: Free! Registration required<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD_hrXdrCfPgVUj2AN-aOPrXJDxUppgRX…>.
Summary of Jessie’s talk
Sometimes when folks are in the midst of a monumental, feel-good shift, they fail to realize who has been excluded from that space. Librarians and scholars have been advocating the ideals of open access for many years and have seen the exciting changes the movement creates for public knowledge. Yet we rarely think about whose voices are absent and the structures of power that limit this project. Together, we’ll query our positionality in these spaces, and consider how the politics of refusal and an ethic of care might intersect to complicate the open access movement, potentially creating futurities of reciprocity. If rethought as a tool of resurgence, open access can support justice.
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2. Intro to Open Science & Open Access (Student Directed Presentations)
Kicking off Open Access Week 2019, join us for a presentation about Open Science and Open Access. Learn about the benefits of open science practices such as pre-registering your hypotheses and sharing your data and research materials in open repositories. We will discuss the academic publishing process, sharing your pre- and postprints, and resources and other supports available to you at KPU, such as our institutional repository KORA. The talk will focus on practical steps that (student) researchers can take at KPU that will help make their work more visible, transparent, and rigorous.
Date: October 21, 2019
Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
Place: Surrey Conference Centre (Cedar 1205C)
All are welcome!
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Good afternoon everyone,
I am delighted to share some updated statistics with you from our Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) initiative:
* We have now crossed $3.1 million in student savings. In the first year of the program (2018) we exceeded $1 million in savings whereas this year we have exceeded $2 million.
* The ZTC initiative now includes six credentials based on more than 700 unique courses that are taught by more than 300 instructors.
To view the data dashboard and learn more about our six ZTC programs, visit https://www.kpu.ca/open/ztc
Many thanks to Andrea Mah and Jasmine Marahar, student assistants who have been working on collecting and verifying these data.
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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Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to share the news that we have just received a BCcampus Open Education Sustainability Grant<https://open.bccampus.ca/call-for-proposals/open-education-sustainability-g…>. This grant provides us with an additional $32,250 in funds over the next two years, support which will allow us to:
* enhance and further professionalize our Open Publishing Suite<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> by adding support for graphic design/layout, LaTeX authoring (e.g., for equations in Math, Physics, etc.), and a pre-publication peer review program for open textbooks published at KPU
* enhance our open education research capacity by establishing an annual Open Education Research Fellowship and host an annual Open Education Research Institute in partnership with the Office of Research Services (details to follow soon)
* expand our Open Pedagogy Fellowship program<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship> that focuses on the UN’s sustainable development goals
* developing a suite of resources and guides that will support our colleagues and the broader open education community
For more information read the BCcampus press release at https://urls.bccampus.ca/6mp
I look forward to sharing details of these and other new forms of support that will soon be available to the KPU community.
Warm regards,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Vice Provost, Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
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