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...
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...
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...
Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links,...
Learning to Learn Online helps you prepare for online learning success by introducing you to the online learning environment and your role as a learner within it. As you come to understand yourself as an self-directed learner, you will also be introduced to effective learning strategies: time...
A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluation that information, and a recognition that information has value.
Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing lesson genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains...
Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Identify Plant Requirements is an adaptation of KPU HORT 1155 Introduction to Plant Materials Lecture Notes. This first edition supports student achievement of the Level 1 and 2 learning goals for Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Line F2.
The book presents novel research results in the dynamics if values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks to understand others’ actions within their environment. Armed with the knowledge of how values, rationality, and power...
Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Identify Plant Requirements is an adaptation of KPU HORT 1155 Introduction to Plant Materials Lecture Notes. This first edition supports student achievement of the Level 3 and 4 learning goals for Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Line F2.
University 101: Study Strategies Succeed helps you to create a foundation for post-secondary studies by learning how to learn. By Taking the time to read this book and work through the exercises included, you are investing in the skills that will support you in all your classes and future...
Laws of Settlement revives, updates and refreshes the ’54 Laws of Settlements’ outlined in Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis’ seminal books Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements, making them relevant to the problems we face in the 21st century.
Designed specifically for Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, this Pressbook offers interactive activities and strategies or developing academic writing skills. Learners have the opportunity to review key parts of the writing process from interpreting their assignment instructions,...
