Congratulations UN SDG Fellows & Wilson School of Design!
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Congratulations to Monica Affleck and Reynold Vaz, recipients of the 2021-22 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship>!
This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments (all of which will carry a Creative Commons<https://creativecommons.org/choose/> license) to help students become agents of change in their own communities. Each fellowship team (which will include at least one faculty member from KPU and one faculty member from a partner institution will design three renewable assignments during the Summer 2021 semester. A minimum of two renewable assignments will be deployed in the classes of each fellowship team during the subsequent academic year.
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Congratulations to the Wilson School of Design on its second Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)<https://media.kpu.ca/media/What+is+the+Zero+Textbook+Cost+%28ZTC%29+initiat…> program—the Bachelor of Interior Design<https://www.kpu.ca/calendar/2018-19/design/interiordesign/interiordesign-de…>!
KPU’s ZTC programs allow students to pursue an education without spending a cent on textbooks. The IDSN program joins the Wilson School of Design’s Certificate in Foundations in Design<https://www.kpu.ca/design/find> along with five other ZTC programs. Search the KPU timetable<https://media.kpu.ca/media/Finding+Zero+Textbook+Cost+%28ZTC%29+Courses/0_o…> to find a growing list of for-credit courses without the cost of textbooks. Students who enrol in this four-year program can expect to save money!
Hear what Lucie Gagne, Chair of Interior Design, has to say:
“Our Interior Design Program is a highly regarded program, one that, in large part, focusses on student success. Given the global economy and issues of fundamental affordability, we have made it a priority to ensure the program remains viable and sustainable by finding cost savings strategies for our students. We are thrilled that we have been able to implement making the Interior Design Degree a Zero Textbook Costs (ZTC) program”
-Lucie Gagne, Chair of the Interior Design Program
Best,
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Available Now: Test Bank for Introduction to Consumer Behaviour | Andrea Niosi
Edited by Andrea Niosi (Melville School of Business)
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Instructors, to request access to the test bank for this OER, please see: https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/ancillary-requests/
Link to Resources: Introduction to Consumer Behaviour<https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=42…> & Ancillary Resource Guide<https://opentextbc.ca/ancillaryconsumerbehaviour/>
This open textbook was designed for students studying business or marketing at an undergraduate level. It draws on the fields of marketing, business, communications, media studies, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The book invites readers to examine the internal forces that shape consumer decision making, such as perceptions, motivations, personality, and attitudes as well as the external ones, such as social and situational influences, culture, and subcultures. This text centres the lived experiences of today’s consumers, specifically, undergraduate students. The author has also made efforts to decentre whiteness and dominant culture perspectives wherever possible to ensure a broader and more accurate representation of diverse consumers.
This OER contains content created by students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University and is best used alongside the Ancillary Resource Guide<https://opentextbc.ca/ancillaryconsumerbehaviour/> that contains several essays, case studies, assignments, and project outlines, and an accompanying multiple choice test bank.
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Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, KPU | Open Education
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Cases on Social Issues: For class discussion
Edited by Deirdre Maultsaid<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/social-issue-cases/front-matter/70/>
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Link to resource: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/social-issue-cases/
This Open Educational Resource, “Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion” includes valuable cases on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion for student use. The critical events portrayed in the cases are realistic and emotional, and feature the experiences of under-represented and marginalized people. These thoughtful, contemporary cases pose ethical dilemmas about social issues that encourage post-secondary students and instructors to have stimulating, inclusive, and compassionate discussions. Inspired by input from post-secondary students and authored by people usually under-represented in education material, this resource is designed for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, business, healthcare, science, agriculture, environmental studies, law and more. Each case is supplemented with modifiable discussion prompts, notes for teaching strategy, and a short reading list. This resource is a work in progress.
Contributions by: Deirdre Maultsaid (Editor), Gregory John
This OER was funded by KPU | Open Education’s OER Grant Program<https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants>.
For a complete catalogue of works published by the Open Publishing Suite (OPUS)<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, please visit: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/catalog/openkpu
For more about KPU | Open Education, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
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New Deadline | UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship
If you missed your chance to apply, here’s another opportunity! We’ve had a busy March with Open Education Week, end of term, and end of the fiscal year, so we’ve decided to extend the deadline for UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship applications.
For more information and to apply by May 1, 2022, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship>.
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Amanda Grey, MLIS (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Teaching & Learning Commons
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
Now Accepting Applications | UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship
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Interested in designing meaningful assignments that take on some of the world's most pressing sustainability needs? The UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship is for you! Apply for this award-winning fellowship<https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2020/open-pedagogy/united-nations-sustai…> and work in interdisciplinary, inter-institutional teams this summer to create renewable assignments*. Once created, deploy these assignments in your courses toward reaching any of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals <https://en.unesco.org/sustainabledevelopmentgoals> .
For more information and to apply by Friday, April 1, 2022, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship>. Please note that successful applicants will receive $500 in professional development funding.
KPU faculty interested in applying for the Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship should register for an information session scheduled for Monday, March 14, 2022, at 10:30am. Register here<https://tlevents.kpu.ca/mod/booking/view.php?id=3442>.
Hear what past participants of the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship have to say: Video Content<https://media.kpu.ca/id/0_uwnqvrx8?width=608&height=402&playerId=23451315>.
*Renewable assignments (also known as non-disposable assignments) are those that add value to a student's world, live outside of the boundaries and beyond the duration of the course, and are likely to have a lasting impact. Disposable assignments, on the other hand, are those that only the instructor and students will see and which students are likely to throw away once they have been graded (Seraphin et al., 2019<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1475725718811711>; Wiley, 2013<https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975>).
Best,
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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You're Invited! Open Education Week 2022 | March 7-11
ZTC Essentials: Integrating Pressbooks and Library Resources into Moodle
Monday, March 7, 11:30AM-12:30PM | Caroline Daniels & Urooj Nizami | REGISTER<https://tlevents.kpu.ca/mod/booking/view.php?id=3430>
Join this session to learn about KPU’s ZTC Program, and how to integrate library resources and Pressbooks into Moodle.
Zero Textbook Cost: A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, March 8, 10:00AM-11:00AM | ATTEND<https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/events/oer/index.h…>
This panel will explore the variety of implementations of Zero Textbook Cost initiatives across Canada. Robel Ng’ong’a (Students’ Association President at Augustana Campus, University of Alberta), will facilitate the discussion with representatives from five Canadian universities and colleges, including KPU.
This event is part of the Open Education Symposium, organized by The University of Alberta, Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Getting Started with OER: A Librarian's Guide of Must-See Destinations
Tuesday, March 8 | Karen Meijer-Kline WATCH<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/oeweek2022/chapter/chapter-1/>
This asynchronous video resource will showcase 3 places to find OER. Don't know where to start? You will after watching this video!
Office Hours: Discover Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, March 9, 1:00PM-2:00PM | Karen Meijer-Kline & Urooj Nizami | REGISTER<https://tlevents.kpu.ca/mod/booking/view.php?id=3434>
Bring your course syllabi to this participant-led session and work to identify open educational resources, including open textbooks and ancillary materials for your courses.
Educational Technologies for Open Pedagogies
Thursday, March 10, 12:30PM-1:30PM | Teaching & Learning Commons' Strategists | ATTEND<https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/events/oer/index.h…>
In this presentation, strategists from KPU Teaching and Learning Commons will discuss how they harness various educational technologies to support open pedagogy.
This event is part of the Open Education Symposium, organized by The University of Alberta, Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Introduction to Open Pedagogy
Friday, March 11 | Urooj Nizami | WATCH<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/oeweek2022/chapter/a-brief-introduction-to-open-…>
Open pedagogy can include creating, adapting, or updating OER with students, building course policies, outcomes, assignments, rubrics, and schedules of work collaboratively with students, or facilitating student-created and student-controlled learning environments. Access this asynchronous session for an introduction to open pedagogy, including popular practices like designing renewal assignments.
NEW OER Grant Program | Now Accepting Applications
Support KPU's commitment to Open Education by applying to the newly updated OER Grant Program. Regular faculty can apply for funding to create or adapt Open Educational Resources!
🔗 OER are materials that are freely accessible and openly available<https://media.kpu.ca/media/What+are+Open+Educational+ResourcesF/0_8zhj26kp> for anyone to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute. This can include images, videos, interactive simulations, worksheets, and of course, textbooks.
There are now two streams of grants offered by this program:
Stream A: OER Grant— to a maximum value of $4,000, up to $2,000 of which can be used for professional development purchases or activities by the grant recipient. The remaining amount can be used for project funding as outlined in Eligible Expenses.
Stream B: Section Release and OER Microgrant— this includes the cost of a section release and up to $2,000 for additional project funding as outlined in Eligible Expenses.
To apply and for more information, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants.
Accepting applications until Wednesday, January 19, 2022.
For questions, reach out at open(a)kpu.ca<https://kpu.ca/>
For more about KPU | Open Education, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open>
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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