Dear colleagues,
As we wind down for a well-deserved holiday break, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to this incredible community and to share just a few highlights of our progress in 2018:
- We continue to be
Canada’s leading institutional adopter of open educational resources and the number of faculty who are adopting open textbooks continues to grow rapidly (and now spans every Faculty & School at KPU).
- This year we launched our (and Canada’s)
second Zed Cred program, leading to the Adult Graduation Diploma (our first one, launched in Fall 2017, leads to the Certificate in Arts). Overall, our Zed
Cred initiative encompassed more than 350 sections taught by more than 100 instructors and saved our students more than
$1.2 million!
- Our course timetable now offers
a searchable field for Zed Cred sections.
- Faculty are now able to
set up a print-on-demand service for open textbooks, thanks to the support of the KPU Bookstore & Print Shop.
- During Open Access week the KPU Library soft-launched
OPUS, an open publishing suite that supports faculty and staff who are creating and adapting open educational resources. You will hear more about this service in the new year.
- We had two cohorts of cross-disciplinary faculty learning communities on
open pedagogy this year. As interest in this innovative approach to teaching and learning continue to grow, several workshops will be offered to faculty in the new year, in partnership with the Teaching & Learning
Commons.
- KPU faculty and staff received several grants from BCcampus to support our continued work in open education. Several others have successfully
received Creative Capital grants, 0.6% PD fund awards, and paid educational leave to support their open education projects.
I am especially grateful to the members of our
Open Education Working Group, whose support and guidance have been critical to this progress. The next year holds great promise for open education at KPU. We will continue to offer
OER grants, are busy planning events for
Open Education week, and are building towards several exciting milestones. But, for now, we enjoy a well-deserved break
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I wish you all a joyous and restful holiday season. See you in 2019!
Warm regards,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D. |
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