USING OER

KPU provides KORA, an institutional repository for collecting, preserving, and providing free online access to scholarly and creative materials created by the Kwantlen community.

• Kwantlen Open Resource Access (KORA)
• KPU Pressbooks Catalogues:
  • Open Education
  • Continuing & Professional Studies – coming soon

Canadian repositories

• B.C. Open Textbook Collection
• Open Library (Ontario)

KPU Library

• OER library guide (libguide)
• Pressbooks Conversion Library Service

KPU Bookstore and Printshop

• Video tutorial: On-campus print-on-demand service

ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost) programs

• Adult Graduation Diploma, equivalent to the BC grade 12 graduation diploma, with Academic & Career Preparation courses that help you prepare for university studies, career pathways, and trades entry by upgrading English, math, and science skills
• Arts: Certificate, a flexible yet foundational one-year program based on the completion of 30 credits of coursework (approximately 10 courses)
• Foundation in Design: Diploma, a one-year full-time program offered by the Wilson School of Design
• General Studies: Diploma, an exit credential designed as a more flexible and personalized alternative to the Associate or Bachelor degrees.
• General Studies: Associate of Arts Degree, a two-year program based on the completion of 60 credits of coursework (approximately 20 courses)
• General Studies: Bachelor of Arts Degree, a four-year university degree based on the completion of 120 credits of coursework (approximately 40 courses)
• Sociology: Associate of Arts Degree, a provincially recognized two-year academic credential program (60 credits) with an entry point into a Bachelor of Arts degree program

For more information, see ZTC: Zero Textbook Cost.

Use the new Registration Application at ONE.KPU.ca to search for course sections with zero textbook costs

Open Pedagogy

• Open Pedagogy at KPU
  • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
• 2019: Faculty Learning Community (FLC): Open Pedagogy
• Kwantlen Psychology Student Journal (open access)

CREATING OER

Publishing services

• OPUS: KPU’s Open Publishing Suite includes:
  1. Create and adapt using Pressbooks
  2. Launch your own OJS journal
  3. Get ZTC ready
  4. Search and discover OER
  5. Submit your work to KORA
  6. Contact Open Ed office
• Online Journal System

Grants and projects

• KPU OER Grants web page

The Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program provides funding and staff support to KPU faculty members interested in creating, adapting, and adopting OERs (and other types of Open Pedagogy).

• Open Pedagogy Fellowship

REVIEWING OER

• Apply to review an open textbook

OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION

Working group

• KPU OEWG web page

This group brings together key stakeholders from across the institution to provide advice and support for KPU’s open education initiatives, which include the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources, the development of Zed Cred programs, and the embrace of innovative open pedagogies.

Research

Fellowship

Research and presentations

Bali, M., Cronin, C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing open educational practices from a social justice perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1), 10. http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.565

Barker J., Jeffery, K., Jhangiani, R.S., Veletsianos, G. (2018). Eight patterns of open textbook adoption in British Columbia The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19(3).

Carey, T., Davis, A., Ferreras, S., Porter, D. (2015). Using open educational practices to support institutional strategic excellence in teach, learning & scholarship. Open Praxis, 7(2).  doi: 10.5944/openpraxis.7.2.201

Jhangiani, R.S. (2017). Pragmatism vs. idealism and the identity crisis of OER advocacy. Open Praxis, 9(2). doi: 10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.569

Jhangiani, R. S., Dastur, F. N., Le Grand, R., & Penner, K. (2018). As good or better than commercial textbooks: Students’ perceptions and outcomes from using open digital and open print textbooks. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2018.1.5

Jhangiani, R.S., Hardin, E.E.,& Beers, M.J. (guest eds). (2019). Open educational practices: Perceptions and outcomes. Psychology Learning & Teaching (special issue). doi: 10.1177/1475725718814354

Jhangiani, R. S., & Jhangiani, S. (2017). Investigating the perceptions, use, and impact of open textbooks: A survey of post-secondary students in British Columbia. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). doi: 10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3012

Blogs and news

• Students save money in KPU’s novel ZTC program, or ‘Zero Textbook Cost’ – November 25, 2020 (Surrey Now-Leader)
• Building an openly-licensed “course in a box” in a month – October 9, 2020 (KPU TLC)
• Students save big at Kwantlen with ‘no textbook cost’ arts degree – October 26, 2019 (The Province)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Terry Berg – Oct 18, 2019 (BCcampus)
• B.C. university eliminates cost of textbooks from 6 programs – July 31, 2019 (CBC News)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Arley Cruther – May 30, 2019 (BCcampus)
• This KPU professor brought open-education advocacy all the way to the UN – April 3, 2019 (University Affairs)
• Award for Excellence in OpenEd – Rajiv Jhangiani – January 23, 2019 (BCcampus)
• And the winner is… Diane Purvey – April 24, 2018 (BCcampus)

KPU Open Education newsletters

Podcasts

• Critical open pedagogy – October 11, 2018 (Teaching in Higher Ed podcast)

Videos

• Support for open education practices at KPU – 2020
  • What are open educational resources?
  • What are open textbooks?
  • Open pedagogy
  • Zero Textook Cost Initiative (KPU)
• KPU faculty describe their experiences with using open textbooks – 2017

BEYOND KPU