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Building an Institutional Culture of Open: Strategies, Insights, and Lessons from Kwantlen Polytechnic University (11:30 - 12:00) FILLING

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Open Session Limited to 40 Participants (First-Come, First-In)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is a regional undergraduate teaching university that serves a diverse student body across its four campuses. In recent years KPU has led BC post-secondary institutions through its embrace of open educational practices. This includes more than 100 course adoptions of open textbooks, faculty-led OER and ancillary resource development projects across a range of disciplines, institutional OERu membership and course development projects, events during open access and open education weeks, internal funding of OER-related projects, and language affirming open practices within the university strategic planning documents.

This practical session brings together administrators, faculty, librarians, and staff from KPU’s institutional Open Studies working group to share strategies, insights, and lessons that will prove useful to other institutions seeking to build a culture of Open.

Presenters
Rajiv Jhangiani, Faculty Member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Farhad Dastur, Faculty Member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Sal Ferreras, Provost and VP Academic, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Meg Goodine, Manager, Learning Technology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Caroline Daniels, Systems, Web and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Todd Mundle, University Librarian, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Diane Purvey, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Speakers

Caroline Daniels

Systems, Web and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, KPU

Ask me about how Librarian's can be part of the OER movement.

Farhad Dastur

Faculty Member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

I believe that open education is one of the most important and exciting developments in higher education. I have taught using open textbooks; I have consulted on a Research Methods course using an open development platform (WikiEducator); I am co-creating an Intro Psychology course for OERu; I have conducted research on the efficacy of open textbooks; and I am writing an open textbook on Critical Thinking.

Sal Ferreras

Provost and VP Academic, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

KPU

Meg Goodine

Manager, Learning Technology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

KPU

Rajiv Jhangiani

Open Studies Teaching Fellow & Psychology Professor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

I am the Open Studies Teaching Fellow and a Psychology Professor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, BC, where I conduct research in open education and the scholarship of teaching and learning. I also serve as an OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group, an Associate Editor of Psychology Learning and Teaching, and a faculty workshop facilitator with the Open Textbook Network. I have revised two open textbooks—for... Read More →