Congratulations to everyone and I hope you have some time this summer to rest and relax. Thanks for your hard work on this initiative.
sandy
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Dr. Sandy Vanderburgh
Provost and Vice President Academic
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From: Openkpu <openkpu-bounces(a)lists.bccampus.ca> on behalf of Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani(a)kpu.ca>
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 11:24 AM
To: "openkpu(a)mail.bccampus.ca" <openkpu(a)mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Openkpu] KPU's OPUS Team wins Outstanding Contribution Award from the BC Library Association
Dear colleagues,
It is with immense pleasure and pride that I share the news that our Open Publishing Suite (OPUS) Team has received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the BC Library Association<https://libguides.kpu.ca/library/news/KPUs-OPUS-Team-wins-Outstanding-Achie…>. This award is presented every year to an academic library team or individual who has made a real difference to students, faculty or colleagues in British Columbia.
Launched in March 2019, OPUS<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> - a suite of Library services and tools - was created to support faculty at various stages in producing their Open Education Resources. This support has helped foster the creation of over 20 Open textbooks as well as several journals and the inclusion of a variety of faculty authored materials in KPU’s institutional repository.
In addition to one-on-one consultations, the Team has also created several guides and workshops for faculty and students related to various aspects of Open Access and publishing, as well as sharing their knowledge with libraries at other institutions wanting to create their own Open publishing program.
Please join me in congratulating our wonderful colleagues and OPUS Team members:
Caroline Daniels, Systems, Web & Interlibrary Loans Librarian
Karen Meijer-Kline, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Paula Pinter, Library Technician
Beverly Whiticutt, Library Technician
Syreen Prestonji, Library Technician
Urooj Nizami, Open Education Strategist
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him/his; proper pronunciation<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthatpsych…>)
Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Administrative Coordinator: Janice Webster t 604.598.6215 e janice.webster(a)kpu.ca<mailto:janice.webster@kpu.ca>
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Summer 2021 OER Grant Recipients
KPU Open Education is pleased to announce and congratulate recipients of the Summer 2021 Open Educational Resources Creation Grant:
Monica Affleck (School of Business) | Employee Development & Coaching, HRMT 3265
* Undertaking an open pedagogy project with students to replace the textbook traditionally used in HRMT 3265, Employee Development & Coaching.
Katherine Carpenter (School of Business) | Introduction to Entrepreneurship, ENTR 1200
* Building ENTR 1200: Introduction to Entrepreneurship as an Open Education Resource (OER) with UDL, open pedagogy, student agency and choice being the key guiding principles.
Pamela Ip (School of Business) | Introduction to Marketing, MRKT 1199
* Creating an open educational resource (OER) textbook and ancillary resources for MRKT 1199, Introduction to Marketing. Pamela has also received an Educational Leave for this project.
John Shepherd, Robert Ironside and Andrea Hunter (School of Business) | Managerial Finance, ACCT 3380
* Creating a practice test bank for ACCT 3380, Introduction to Managerial Finance
Rebecca Yoshizawa (Faculty of Arts) | Gender in Canada, SOCI 2240
* Undertaking an open pedagogy project with students to create a workbook for SOCI 2240, Gender in Canada.
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About Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program provides funding and staff support to regular KPU faculty members interested in creating, adapting, and adopting OER. Faculty can apply for up to $4000 in funding to create OER or up to $2000 to adapt existing OER!
For more information and to apply, visit kpu.ca/open/grants<file:///C:/Users/unizami/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/0YZZ0O4U/kpu.ca/open/grants>.
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Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Dear colleagues,
It is with immense pleasure and pride that I share the news that our Open Publishing Suite (OPUS) Team has received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the BC Library Association<https://libguides.kpu.ca/library/news/KPUs-OPUS-Team-wins-Outstanding-Achie…>. This award is presented every year to an academic library team or individual who has made a real difference to students, faculty or colleagues in British Columbia.
Launched in March 2019, OPUS<https://www.kpu.ca/library/OPUS> - a suite of Library services and tools - was created to support faculty at various stages in producing their Open Education Resources. This support has helped foster the creation of over 20 Open textbooks as well as several journals and the inclusion of a variety of faculty authored materials in KPU’s institutional repository.
In addition to one-on-one consultations, the Team has also created several guides and workshops for faculty and students related to various aspects of Open Access and publishing, as well as sharing their knowledge with libraries at other institutions wanting to create their own Open publishing program.
Please join me in congratulating our wonderful colleagues and OPUS Team members:
Caroline Daniels, Systems, Web & Interlibrary Loans Librarian
Karen Meijer-Kline, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Paula Pinter, Library Technician
Beverly Whiticutt, Library Technician
Syreen Prestonji, Library Technician
Urooj Nizami, Open Education Strategist
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. (pronouns: he/him/his; proper pronunciation<https://thatpsychprof.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Räjev-D??angeäne.m4a>)
Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning
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>
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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.
Dear colleagues,
A reminder that all Canadian faculty, librarians, bookstore staff, and students are invited to participate in the Canadian Distribution of OpenStax hardcover textbooks<https://sfu-bccampus.cmail20.com/t/d-l-qcjdty-ehldhkki-jl/> survey, ending on April 30. All responses are anonymous. Final results will be shared out later this year.
BCcampus in partnership with Vretta<https://www.vretta.com/ordering.html> and the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative<https://openedmb.ca/> is surveying Canadian post-secondary institutions about their knowledge about/adoption of/suggested improvements to the distribution of OpenStax’s hardbound books in Canada<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/23/hard-back-openstax-books-come-to-canada/>, and the usage of and need for printed open textbooks in general.
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
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Arianna Cheveldave
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
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Partnership Announcement & Apply Now! | UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship
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KPU’s Office of Open Education<https://www.kpu.ca/open> is thrilled to announce that Langara College and Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will be joining KPU to grow BC’s representation in the award-winning UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship! Alongside founding member, Montgomery Community College in Maryland, USA, Langara and TRU join partners at Maricopa Community Colleges (Arizona), Pima Community College (Arizona), and the Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland).
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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>
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>
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. The creation, adaptation, and adoption of OER supports equitable access to education.
Open pedagogy may be understood as an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education. An increasingly popular form of open pedagogy involves the design and use of renewable assignments.
Renewable assignments (also known as non-disposable assignments)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> ).
Accepting applications now through March 31.
For more information and to apply, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship<https://www.kpu.ca/open/un-sdg-fellowship>
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Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Limited Registration | Open Education Research Institute (OERI)
Dates: Monday, May 3 | Wednesday, May 5 | Friday, May 7
Time: 9am – 12pm (PST)
Program Description: As open education initiatives mature, it is imperative to investigate their impacts whether it be to advocate for institutional support or to iterate, innovate and further advance the goal of equitable access. For this reason, open education research is becoming an important facet within a healthy and thriving open ecosystem. This three-day Open Education Research Institute (OERI) provides an opportunity for new and emerging researchers interested in open educational practices to deepen their knowledge and sharpen their skillset while connecting with other researchers and joining a Provincial mentorship network.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will
* receive an overview of existing research on open educational practices, including a special focus on research conducted in or by researchers in British Columbia.
* learn about different theoretical and methodological frameworks for research in open education
* receive guidance on practical issues such as preparing applications for ethical review of their research projects and publishing their work in open access journals or repositories
* work in affinity groups to draft and revise their research questions and be paired with an experienced researcher, who will serve as their mentor for the following year.
The OERI is jointly funded by KPU's Office of Open Education and BCcampus. While there will be no cost to register for the event, registration is required for planning and logistics.
To maintain a fruitful experience for participants, registration is limited.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/oeri
The full program will be published in April 2021.
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For questions, please contact Rajiv Jhangiani and Urooj Nizami at open(a)kpu.ca.
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Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Congratulations! | Deirdre Maultsaid & Jeannette Paschen
Join the Office of Open Education in recognizing Deirdre Maultsaid (School of Business) on receiving the 2021 Open Education Research Fellowship. Deirdre will undertake invaluable research on the ethic of care in open pedagogical practices.
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For more information about the OE Research Fellowship, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/research-fellowship
New and emerging researchers interested in open educational practices, register for the inaugural Open Education Research Institute (OERI) by visiting: https://www.kpu.ca/open/oeri
Congratulations to Jeannette Paschen (School of Business) on receiving an OER Adaptation Grant to create a test-bank of questions using open pedagogy principles for Fundamentals of Business in Canada.<https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/businessfuncdn/> These ancillary resources will surely aid in the adoption of this open textbook. At KPU alone this project has the potential to benefit over 1500 student per year in BUSI 1110. In 2019, 43 sections of BUSI 1110 were offered with up to 35 students in each section.
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For more information and to apply for OER Grants, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants. The next deadline for submitting an adaptation and creation grant is May 3, 2021. Apply anytime for an adoption grant!
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Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her)
Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action
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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.
Dear colleagues,
BCcampus, in partnership with Vretta<https://www.vretta.com/ordering.html> and the Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative<https://openedmb.ca/>, is surveying Canadian post-secondary institutions about their knowledge about/adoption of/suggested improvements to the distribution of OpenStax’s hardbound books in Canada<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/23/hard-back-openstax-books-come-to-canada/>, and the usage of and need for printed open textbooks in general. Faculty, librarians, bookstore staff, and students are invited to participate in the Canadian Distribution of OpenStax hardcover textbooks<https://sfu-bccampus.cmail20.com/t/d-l-qcjdty-ehldhkki-jl/> survey. All responses are anonymous. Final results will be shared out later this year.
Regards,
Lauri Aesoph
Arianna Cheveldave
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
________________________________
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.