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SUPPORT

Contacts

For assistance, please contact:

  • Email: open@kpu.ca

Open Education Strategist Amanda Grey will answer your query.

Website

Open Education at KPU

Open Education Strategic Plan 2018-2023 at KPU

Policies and procedures

  • Intellectual Property Procedure
    • 5d, iii. Copyright: “University Members are encouraged to submit a copy of their copyrighted work in an appropriate repository operated or endorsed by the University, such as Kwantlen Open Resource Access (KORA) or Kaltura. University Members may note that submitting to an open repository may limit the author’s ability to publish the same work in another medium.University Members are encouraged to consult with the Office of the University Librarian to determine and label with appropriate licenses (e.g. Creative Commons) to enable wider reuse of their work while imposing certain conditions on its reuse.”

Events

Adoptions

If you are using an open textbook or other OER in a KPU course, please report it to:

  • open@kpu.ca

Estimated Cost Savings to Students (Zed Cred Initiative)

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.

Canadian repositories

KPU Library

KPU Bookstore and Printshop

ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost) programs

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

OER from KPU

Open textbooks – new

Open textbooks – adapted

Supplemental materials

Open courses

Open journals

Support resources

Renewable Assignments (openly licensed) are listed at the bottom of KPU’s UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship webpage. Topics include:

  • Career connections with educators guide
  • Children’s story project
  • Digital storytelling project
  • English
  • Ethnobotany
  • International student assignment
  • Numeracy
  • Sustainable Agriculture

Other openly licensed support resources include:

Other OER used in KPU courses

On-campus OE Sustainability

Open Pedagogy

CREATING OER

Publishing services

Grants and projects

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).

Projects in progress

KPU OER Grant

  • Abridge and update Introduction to Sociology – 2nd Canadian Edition
  • Adapt Astronomy open textbook
  • Create a Statistics for Sociology open textbook
  • Develop core skill-building module for three levels of listening and speaking courses in the ELST program
  • Create videos to supplement interactive Doing Research modules
  • Adapt and enhance Business Communication for Everyone: An Inclusive Guide to Writing in the Workplace
  • Create an Introductory Taxation open textbook with students using principles of open pedagogy
  • Remix and adapt OER for Introduction to University Writing
  • Create a question bank to accompany an Organizational Behaviour open textbook
  • Create Foundation of Physics open textbook
  • Create Study and Academic Skills resource
  • Create Introduction to Math and WebWork
  • Create Learning Statistics with R
  • Create AutoCAD for Interior Design OER
  • Create Biology OER
  • Create ASE Structured Work Experience Placement Handbook
  • Create Introductory Chemistry open textbook
  • Create Clothing, Textile, and Techniques OER
  • Create Introduction to political ideologies OER
  • Create Employee Development and Coachin OER
  • Create Introduction to Marketing OER
  • Create Intermediate Canadian Tax OER
  • Create a practice test bank for ACCT 3380, Introduction to Managerial Finance
  • Undertake an open pedagogy project with students to create a workbook for SOCI 2240, Gender in Canada​

REVIEWING OER

Open textbooks reviewed by KPU faculty

OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION

Working group

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.

Training

Research

Fellowship

KPU’s Open Education Research Fellowship

2019-2020 Fellows

  • Melissa Ashman (Applied Communications)

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

Maultsaid, D., & Harrison, M. (2023). Can Open Pedagogy Encourage Care? Student Perspectives . The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 24(3), 77–98. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v24i3.6901

Blogs and news

KPU Open Education newsletters

Podcasts

Videos

BEYOND KPU

BCcampus

Advisory Group

  • Farhad Dastur (2017-19)

BCcampus Open Education

Faculty Fellow

  • Rajiv Jhangiani (2015-16; 2017-18)

OE Sustainability Grant

  • 2019 recipient

Secondee

  • Rajiv Jhangiani (2017)

Advisory Board

  • Rajiv Jhangiani (2019-20)

Business ZTC Programs Advisory Group

  • Andrea Niosi (2019-20)
  • Anita Sangha (2019-20)

Health ZTC Porgrams Advisory Group

  • Nirmal Dhaliwal (2019-21)

Open Homework Systems Advisory Group

  • Levente Orbán (2019-21)

BCOEL Membership

  • Caroline Daniels
  • Cleire Lauron
  • Karen Meijer-Kline
  • Linda Woodcock

Open Education Group OER Research Fellowships

  • Alena Buis (2019-20)
  • Farhad Dastur (2016-17)
  • Rajiv Jhangiani (2015-16)

OERu

  • Member of OERu, an international network of recognized partner institutions from five continents – providing top-quality tertiary courses to students everywhere.

SPARC

2018-2019 Open Education Leadership Mentors

  • Caroline Daniels

Institutional Memberships

Last update: Nov 23/23

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