A recipe for a successful institutional open education initiative
Published | January 2019 |
Type of work | Web log |
Publisher | WCET Frontiers |
Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
Excerpt"My University is a Proud Leader in the Open Education Movement. But first, let’s provide some context: KPU is the leading institutional adopter of open textbooks and other OER in Canada. We launched the country’s first two Zed Cred programs (known as Z Degrees in the U.S.) over the past two years, established an OER grant program (overseen by a dedicated and cross-functional Open Education Working Group), integrated Zed Cred markings into our course timetables, established a print-on-demand service for open textbooks, provided faculty development opportunities for open pedagogy, and recently launched OPUS, an open publishing suite to support faculty and staff who wish to create or adapt OER. I mention these achievements because my reflections on successful open education initiatives are inevitably guided by the growth of our own initiative efforts at KPU."
Keywords | faculty development · KPU · OER · open education · open education champions · open textbooks · professional development · Zed Cred |
Refereed | Does not apply |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
URL | https://wcetfrontiers.org/2019/02/06/successful-institutional-open-education-initiative/ |
Access date | 18 February 2019 |
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