Open Education

The open education movement dovetails with Langara’s mission to provide students with accessible, affordable, high-quality education.

From 2019-2023, Open Langara offered $1,500 grants to instructors interested in adapting or creating open educational resources (OER) or incorporating open educational practices (OEP) into their teaching. 

2023/24 - funding carried over to complete the 2022/23 grant projects.

2022/23

• Pichmony Anhaouy (Mathematics) created a solution key to his recently published textbook for MATH 1274.
• Gayathri Murthy (Nutrition and Food Service Management) updated the open textbook used by all NUTR 1100 students. 
• Negin Saheb Javaher (Sociology) is developing a collection of openly licensed infographics to help refugee and international students acclimatize to college life in Canada. The infographics were developed by students for students. 

2021/22

• Julia Wong (Biology) created an open access chemistry module to assist Biology 1190 students.
• Jeremy Chiu (Mathematics) developed an enhanced repository of recorded video solutions for precalculus and calculus problems and an accompanying problem book.

2020/21

• Alena Buis (Art History). Created two introductory Art History textbooks in Pressbooks from existing OER.
• Jeremy Chiu (Mathematics). Created fully open practice assignments and piloted an online quiz on an open platform.
• Saeed Mirjalili (Computer Science). Developed a robust practice test bank for CPSC 1045. It includes over 360 questions related to various computer programming languages with accompanying feedback. 

Open education is captured in the College's Academic Plan 2025, Transformational Learning Experiences:

"Building on our extensive student-centred teaching experience, we interweave principles of universal design, open education, digital literacy, and continual learning on our pathway to academic success." 

The College's Kaleidoscope Fund offers seed money of up to $3,000 per project to support program development inspired by the Academic Plan 2025. Open Langara encourages faculty who are interested in initiating an open education projecct to apply for Kaleidoscope funding.

Langara's open education partner, BCcampus, regularly offers grant funding opportunities. Visit the Grants and Calls for Proposals page on the BCcampus website for current offerings. 

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