Dear colleagues,

Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are supportive and ongoing discussion groups that allow KPU colleagues to gather from across departments in order to discuss and develop their skills around a specific teaching and learning topic. This Fall we will launch an FLC that will focus on open educational practices, with a special emphasis on open pedagogy. Open Pedagogy is both an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education as well as a process of designing architectures and using tools for learning that enable students to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.

Members of this FLC will meet monthly, between October 2017 and April 2018, and will critically explore and workshop innovative open educational practices and how these might be implemented in one or more of their own courses. This FLC is limited to 10 participants and will be facilitated by Rajiv Jhangiani (Psychology). Faculty interested in joining this FLC or learning more about this opportunity should send an email to open@kpu.ca by September 15.

Please feel free to share this call with colleagues who may not be on the Open KPU listserve.

Many thanks,

Rajiv

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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.

University Teaching Fellow & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Open Education Advisor, BCcampus

Ambassador, Center for Open Science

New Book: Open: The philosophy and practices that are revolutionizing education and science (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc)