While there are numerous positive opportunities offered to students through open pedagogical practices (OEP), it is also important to acknowledge and address student concerns when it comes to OEP. Open Pedagogy is intended to be student-led, with students (supported by instructors) creating Open...
In this contribution, three open textbook authors outline the motivations and mechanics of three successful yet different approaches to writing open textbooks. These approaches include textbook creation and adaptation projects, individual and collaborative efforts, and traditional timeline and...
Open textbooks are innovating and disrupting the traditional model of textbook publication. In celebrating Open Access Week, SFU Library was delighted to bring together a range of perspectives on open textbooks. Students spend roughly $1,000 per year on textbooks, and are increasingly advocating...
This document outlines a vision and strategy for KPU’s open education initiatives. It was developed in collaboration with members of the KPU Open Education Working Group along with other key internal and external stakeholders and in conjunction with Vison 2023 and Academic Plan 2018-2023. In the...
Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares...
This chapter summarizes the growth and promise of the open educational resources (OER) movement. At the same time, it emphasizes that in order for OER to achieve its potential in widening equitable access to education, practitioners must be mindful of several pitfalls. These problems and pitfalls...
Humans are hardwired as problem-solvers. Professional education, in particular, enables us to solve complex problems. Even decades ago, we could safely send a crew to the moon and back. A moon-bound project is a very challenging and complex problem, but it is a tame one. The problem is clearly...
The Open Guide to Integrated Marketing Communications is an OER that was written and edited by KPU students in 2020. It covers a range of topics related to designing and launching integrated marketing campaigns, such as research, audience segmentation, creative briefs, content calendars, and more...
Today many libraries are seeking new creative partnerships with faculty in open textbook and OER creation. This presentation reviews a case study at a library that is in initial stages of establishing an open textbook publishing program. At Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC, Canada), the...
We will be presenting a poster board for research that examines how the children’s television show “Jessie” portrays ethnic minorities. We conducted a latent content analysis to uncover the portrayal of ethnic minorities in the show. We will focus on the subliminal racial content that is being...
This study guide is designed to accompany the Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition open text by Jennifer Walinga and Charles Stangor. For each chapter it summarizes the learning objectives and presents multiple-choice, true-false and fill-in-the-blank test of the material covered. It...
Francophones, Canada, Official-Language Minorities, Health Care Usage
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We test Landry's (2012) ethno-linguistic community development model in the context of Canadian Francophone minorities, using two social responses as indicators of social development. These minorities are spread over 12 Canadian Provinces and Territories and represent a broad spectrum of minority...
In Canada the laws around euthanasia are outdated and no longer fit the needs of Canadian citizens. Since there are other countries that have legalized different types of euthanasia, it is time for Canadians to have the right to die with dignity too. This paper will address other models of...
As undergraduate students, the fear and uncertainty of our future and career comes full swing. Anxiety seeped its way into my mind during my first year of university. I knew that given the criminal justice systems impact on my family, a career in criminology was not going to be an easy task, but...
immigration law, refugee policy, security certificates, Syrian refugee crisis, construction of non-citizens, admissibility, inadmissibility, security, politicization of immigration, Access to Information
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While legal discourse commonly interprets ‘admissibility’ as ‘inadmissibility’ within Canadian immigration law and policy, this research explores ‘admissibility’ as a concept of its own and how it is implemented through Canadian immigration practice. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act...
