Register Now: Open Education Global Conference
The Office of Open Education<https://www.kpu.ca/open> at KPU is offering limited complimentary registration to the Open Education Global 2020 Conference<mailto:https://conference.oeglobal.org/2020/>. OE Global 2020 will be held virtually between November 16-20 with a variety of engagement opportunities including synchronous, asynchronous, and social session formats.
The OE Global conference provides an excellent venue for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and students to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting participants from more than 35 countries.
Registration is open until October 31 or until capacity is reached.
Congratulations to all KPU staff and instructors who have had proposals accepted to OE Global 2020! Please get in touch with the Office of Open Education<mailto:open@kpu.ca> at open.kpu.ca<mailto:open@kpu.ca> to alert us to your acceptance.
[hCGAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC]To register and for more information please visit the OE Global registration page<https://conference.oeglobal.org/2020/registration/> and use the group coupon code: KPU. See below images for details.
For questions and troubleshooting, please contact Urooj Nizami<mailto:urooj.nizami@kpu.ca> in KPU’s Office of Open Education at urooj.nizami(a)kpu.ca<mailto:urooj.nizami@kpu.ca>.
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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>
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@kpu.ca>
Thank you very much,
Rajiv
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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@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@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.
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!
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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@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@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.
