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- Deirdre Maultsaid (Author), Nicolas Costanzo (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2022-10-20
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- 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...
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- Deirdre Maultsaid (Author), Michelle Harrison (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2023-07
- Abstract
- As a response to the increasing commercialization of postsecondary education, educators argue for a practice of care in education. Open pedagogy (OP) seems like an ideal practice where care, trust, and inclusion can be realized. OP is characterized as a democratic and collaborative pedagogical...
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- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author), Arthur G Green (Author), John D Belshaw (Author), Patrick Blessinger (Editor), TJ Bliss (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Abstract
- 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...
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- Rajiv Jhangiani (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-09-10
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- 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...
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- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author), Jennifer Barker (Author), Ken Jeffery (Author), George Veletsianos (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-07
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- Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a five-year period reveals that open textbooks have been adopted across all types...
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- Contributors
- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-07-12
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- Building on open educational resources (OER), open educational practices seek to fully use the potential inherent in OER to support learning and to help students both contribute to knowledge and construct their own learning pathways. Such open practices provide the architecture and philosophical...
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- Contributors
- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author), Farhad N Dastur (Author), Richard Le Grand (Author), Kurt Penner (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-04-16
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- The increase in the cost of college textbooks together with the proliferation of digital content and devices has inspired the development of open textbooks, open educational resources that are free, openly licensed, and often peer-reviewed. Although several published studies have investigated the...
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- Melissa Ashman (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2023-12-31
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- A transformation in teaching and learning happens when students move from being consumers to creators of knowledge. While there is a growing body of research available on the use of open education resources by faculty and students, there is comparatively little research available with regards to...
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- Rajiv Jhangiani (Editor), Robert Biswas-Diener (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2017-03-27
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- 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...
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- Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Author), Ke Zhang (Editor), Curtis J. Bonk (Editor), Thomas C. Reeves (Editor), Thomas H. Reynolds (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2019-11-05
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- 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...
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- Contributors
- Caroline Daniels (Author), Dana McFarland (Author), Daniel Sifton (Author), Ben Hyman (Author), Anita Cocchia (Author), Dave Stewart (Author), BC Digital Library Admin Team (Author), Bronwen Sprout (Author), Shirley Lew (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Author Keywords
- Collaboration, libraries, open scholarship, Community-based infrastructure
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- The idea of the BC Digital Library is to provide a community good by “materializing” infrastructure that enables Open Access to knowledge and stories about and by British Columbia and its people. As an ongoing initiative, this good is devised through collaborative work and contributed resources...
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- Contributors
- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2017-04-14
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- The open education (OE) movement is in its adolescent years and experiencing an identity crisis as it is pulled towards both pragmatism (marked by an emphasis on cost savings, resources, and incremental change) and idealism (marked by an emphasis on permissions, practices, and radical change). In...
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- Contributors
- Rajiv S Jhangiani (Author), Surita Jhangiani (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2017-06
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- Unrelenting increases in the price of college textbooks have prompted the development and adoption of open textbooks, educational resources that are openly licensed and available to students free of cost. Although several studies have investigated U.S. students’ perceptions and use of open...
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- Andrea Niosi (Author), KPU Marketing 4201 Class of Summer 2020 (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2023-11-14
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- 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...
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- Contributors
- Kyle Jackson (Author), Maja Kominko (Editor)
- Date Issued
- 2015
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- If today the sky were to thunder and the local church bell to peal in the mountaintop village of Aithur in Northeast India’s Mizoram state, the resident Christian Mizo villager would simply pack an umbrella to church. However, a century ago the same soundscape would have held radically different...
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- David Sadoway (Author), Satyarupa Shekhar (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2021-02
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- Karen Meijer-Kline (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-11-28
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- 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...
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- Sarah Murray (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-01-01
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- 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...
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- Gangwei Wang (author), Kamran Fakhar (author), A. H. Kara (author)
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- Third-order Burger equation, Nonlocal 11 symmetry analysis, Linearization, multiplier 12 approach, Conservation laws
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- The nonlocal residual symmetry related to truncated Painlevé expansion of third-order Burgers equation is performed. Then, the potential symmetries of the equation are derived; on the basis of nonlocal symmetries, we linearize the nonlinear third-order6 Burgers equation to a linear third-order...
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- Louis Giguere (author), Susan Power (author)
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- 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...
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