Open Education Week 2021

Mark Your Calendars!

Monday, March 1 | 12:30 – 1:30pm

Wicked Problems and Open Remedies: A student centered approach

Facilitated by Arley Cruthers (KPU)

Panelists: Kristen Morgan (UBC Okanagan), Sophia Nguyen (SFU), Caitlin Spreeuw (Douglas College)

In planning and policy, a wicked problem is one that is difficult or impossible to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, interconnected, and/or changing factors. A problem that requires a major change in practice, belief, or behaviour for many people is often a wicked problem. Drawing on this idea, we turn our attention to the wicked problem in higher education of empowering students in the classroom, and centre student voices in exploring the challenges and potential solutions for tackling this problem.  

This event is organized by the BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL) group with sponsorship from BCcampus, Capilano University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College, and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan campus.

To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/3u9Mj4Z

Tuesday, March 2 | 10:00 – 11:00am

Open Education Research: Tips and advice

Facilitated by Melissa Ashman 

Faculty across BC have access to tremendous support and opportunities to engage in open education. If you’re curious about open education research, this session is for you. In this session, you’ll hear from one instructor who is completing a research study on the perceptions of faculty and students towards open pedagogy. Learn more about her project and gain tips and advice to help launch your own research project.

This event will be hosted on Zoom and is open to folks beyond KPU. However, you must have a registered Zoom account to access the event.

To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/2ZyNSLK

Wednesday, March 3 | 3:00 – 4:00pm

Indigenous Resources for Virtual Classrooms

Facilitated by Rachel Chong

This workshop provides support towards KPU's Vision 2023 goal to "embrace all cultures and promote a renewed, authentic approach to Indigenization". This session will cover how to integrate asynchronous video instruction on the respectful use of Indigenous information with the Indigenous Information Literacy video playlist, add special topic support through the Indigenous Studies guide for areas such as Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous literature, and more. There will be ample time for discussion to help generate ideas for optimal classroom use.

KPU Open is encouraging the KPU community to check out Honoring Indigenous Writers, a series of UBC-hosted events starting 24-Feb and throughout the month of March, including a Wikipedia-edit-a-thon! More info at: https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/ 

To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/3k8e6OG

Thursday, March 4 | 10:00 – 11:00am

Open Pedagogy in Practice: Students as content creators

Facilitated by Andrea Niosi 

No textbook? No problem! In this session you will learn how one faculty member designed a 4th year capstone course so students could become content creators for the course. In 13 weeks, 34 KPU students designed and published an OER that now serves other educators, students, and a broader audience of users. Hear how to structure such an ambitious project (online!) and from the students themselves who participated in the course and co-authored the OER.

To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/36YaV6P

Friday, March 5 | 12:00 – 1:00pm

Discovering Open Educational Resources (OER)

Facilitated by Caroline Daniels and Karen Meijer-Kline 

You want to use Open Educational Resources (OER) but don't know where to find them? KPU librarians will show you their favourite places to find Open materials and will answer any questions you have about all things Open.

To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/2LCcVKt

We hope you’ll join us! For more announcements throughout OE Week and beyond, please follow us on twitter at: @KPUOpen

Very best,

	Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University e urooj.nizami@kpu.ca w www.kpu.ca/open Subscribe to the KPU Open listserv here
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