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SUPPORT
Contacts
For assistance, please contact:
- open@langara.ca
OR
- Lindsay Tripp, Copyright Librarian
Email: ltripp@langara.ca
Web page
Adoptions
If you are using an open textbook or other OER in a Langara course, please report it to:
- Lindsay Tripp, Copyright Librarian
Email: ltripp@langara.ca
Bookstore
Open Langara and the Langara Bookstore work together to provide students and instructors with a centralized place to gather course materials: print or digital; commercial or openly licensed.
If you’re an instructor using OER in the classroom, let the Bookstore know what you are using so it can be added to the list.
For information on how the Bookstore can support your open education initiatives, please contact Brendan Hunter bhunter@langara.ca or Lisa Vongsana lvongsana@langara.ca.
USING OER
Open textbook adoptions
- Langara adoptions
- Overall usage
- Usage by department
- Textbook use
Canadian repositories
Langara Library
- Libguide: Open education
- Contract Us at the library
- Email: open@langara.ca
ZTC (Zero Textbook Cost) programs
- Art History ZTC:
- Ten sections of AHIS 1114, AHIS 1115, and AHIS 1214 are now using a combination of open educational resources (OER) from Khan Academy, the Helibrunn Timeline of Art, and other museum databases for required readings.
- For more info see this post from Langara College: “That’ll be $0, please”: Art History forgoes textbooks, embraces open education
Open textbooks – new
- The Ancient and Medieval World by contributing authors Barrie Brill, Niall Christie
- Business Presentation Skills by Lucinda Atwood and Christian Wetstin
- CanadARThistories: Reimagining the Canadian Art History Survey by Alena Buis; Devon Smither; Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere; Jen Kennedy; Johanna Amos; Sarah E.K. Smith
- Foundations in Digital Marketing: Building Meaningful Customer Relationships and Engaged Audiences by Rochelle Grayson
- Introduction to Criminology by contributing authors Niall Christie, Chantal Faucher, Melissa Leanne Roberts
- Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, Second Edition by contributing author Leonard Tang
- Professional Business Practices by Lucinda Atwood
Open textbooks – adapted
- CHEM 1114 – Introduction to Chemistry by Shirley Wacowich-Sgarbi and Langara Chemistry Department
- ENGL 1130 (Weal): Introduction to Poetry by Alan Lindsay, Candace Bergstrom, Jacqueline Weal
- NUTR 1100 – Human Nutrition (adaptation) by
Supplemental materials
- Le Français Interactif: An Activity Companion Site by Mirabelle Tinio
Student-created OER
Websites
- Open Art Histories with contributions from Alena Buis
Other OER used in Langara courses
- CPSC 1045: Eloquent Javascript – 3rd edition
- ECON 1121: Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 4800: Principles of Economics
- MATH 1152: College Algebra
- PHIL 1125: The Republic of Plato
CREATING OER
Open Scholarship
REVIEWING OER
- Apply to review an open textbook
- See “Open Textbook Reviewer Honorarium Initiative” on Open Langara
Open textbooks reviewed by Langara faculty
- A Concise Introduction to Logic
- Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana
- BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 2
- BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 5
- College Physics: OpenStax
- Concepts of Biology – 1st Canadian Edition
- Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions
- Database Design – 2nd Edition
- Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective
- Fundamentals of Business – Canadian Edition
- Introduction to Business (OpenStax)
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introduction to Sociology – 2nd Canadian Edition
- Introductory Business Statistics (OpenStax)
- Introductory Statistics (OpenStax)
- Line A – Safe Work Practices Competency: A-2 Describe WorkSafeBC Regulations
- Media Studies 101
- Precalculus (Stitz-Zeager)
- Principles of Microeconomics (Lyryx)
- Principles of Microeconomics, 2e (OpenStax)
- Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
- Professional Communications OER – Module 3
- Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
- Strategies for Academic Success
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
- Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION
Working group
Research and presentations
- Langara Applied Research Day (March 2019)
- Lovsin, D. (2018, October 12). International student engagement with open textbooks: A summary of the findings. Conference presentation at OpenEd18, Niagara Falls, NY.
- International student engagement with open textbooks: A Canadian perspective – October 16, 2017
- Prior, J., Tripp, L. (2019,March). Open textbooks & international student success: An exploratory study. Langara’s Applied Research Day.
Blogs, news, videos
- Langara College instructors awarded BCcampus grants for open educational resources development – March 16, 2021 (BC Colleges News)
- Open Education Project Spotlight: Computer Science’s Saeed Mirjalili – January 29, 2021 (Langara Library Central news)
- “That’ll be $0, please”: Art History forgoes textbooks, embraces open education – May 10, 2020
- Cornering the Open Market: Announcing the Recipients of the Marketing OER Grants – March 15, 2020 (BCcampus News)
- BCcampus Excellence in Open Education Award: Lindsay Tripp – February 24, 2020
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$1,240,856 in open textbook savings! Where’d you get that number? – February 7, 2020 (Langara/Library Central blog)
- Open Champions – April 4, 2019
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Open Textbooks: A Student Perspective – March 2019 (Langara MediaSpace)
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Growing Open at Langara – January 25, 2019
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Earn $500: Review an open textbook today! – November 27, 2018
- Open but not Free: Invisible Labour in Open Scholarship – October 3, 2018
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More Affordable and Accessible Education: You can help – February 27, 2018
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Introducing LaIR: The Langara Institutional Repository – June 9, 2017
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Open education videos – 2017 (Langara MediaSpace)
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Help Us Name Our Institutional Repository! – March 9, 2017
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Beyond OER: The Promises, Pitfalls and Potential of Open Education (Robin DeRosa) – 2017 (Langara MediaSpace)
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The Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential of Open Education: Robin DeRosa visits Langara on March 21 – February 10, 2017
- Preserving and Sharing Langara History and Scholarship – December 7, 2016
- Forget MOOCs – The Transformative Potential of Open Access – March 7, 2013
BEYOND LANGARA
BCcampus
Advisory Group
- Marianne Gianacopoulos (2017-2019)
BCcampus Open Education
Open Homework Systems Advisory Group
- Brendan Hunter (2019-21)
BCOEL Membership
- Lindsay Tripp
Open Art Histories
- Alena Buis
Open Education Group OER Research Fellowships
- Alena Buis (2019-20)