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Open Education Project Spotlight: Computer Science’s Saeed Mirjalili
In July 2020, Saeed Mirjalili was awarded one of three inaugural Langara Open Education Grants. The grants provide Langara instructors with $1,500 to help further open education projects on campus. An instructor in Langara’s Department of Computing Science & Information … Continue reading
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Open Education Challenge Series: Bite-sized learning for busy educators
Last week Langara’s open education partner, BCcampus, announced a micro-learning series for busy B.C. post-secondary educators to dip their toes into open pedagogy and practices. The target audience is faculty who are completely new to open education. “You might have … Continue reading
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Leveraging Your (Copy)Rights for Online Instruction
Since the quick pivot to fully online instruction in March, the spotlight has been turned on tools required for online delivery (Brightspace, MediaSpace, Zoom, and the like). Less attention has been paid to how copyright can support educators as they … Continue reading
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“That’ll be $0, please”: Art History forgoes textbooks, embraces open education
At the start of the summer semester, Langara Art History students discovered that their learning materials this term will cost them nothing. This surely came as a relief to many struggling with financial instability, limited library access, and delayed textbook … Continue reading
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New Database Trial: Ebsco’s Faculty Select (Open Educational Resources)
With the quick pivot to fully online instruction, open educational resources (OER) are more important than ever before. Unlike commercial learning materials, which are protected by traditional copyright, OER are openly licensed. Open licenses allow educators to retain, reuse, revise, … Continue reading
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$1,240,856 in open textbook savings! Where’d you get that number?
Open textbooks have saved Langara students an estimated $1,240,856 since 2013. This makes Langara the heaviest user of open textbooks amongst all B.C. colleges and universities. $1,240,856 is a significant figure. You might be wondering: Where does it come from?
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Can We Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event
Join Langara, Kwantlen, BCIT, SFU, and UBC for an exciting half-day celebration of Open Access Week (Oct 21-27, 2019). This year’s theme from SPARC is Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge. Our keynote speaker, Jessie Loyer, will explore this … Continue reading
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Lawsuits and loggerheads: Recent developments in Canadian copyright
The past few months have been incredibly interesting for Canadian copyright –especially for the intellectual property nerds/enthusiasts among us. In June 2019, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) released its report for the statutory review of the … Continue reading
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Do you copy right? A start-of-the-semester copyright reminder
A friendly reminder at the start of a new semester that members of the Langara community are required to adhere to the Canadian Copyright Act and the College’s copyright policies. Fair dealing and educational exceptions in the Act afford students … Continue reading
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Five reasons to share links with your students
Learning management systems (LMS) such as D2L aren’t just for distance learners anymore. While online and mixed-mode instructors do indeed use D2L to share lessons, a growing number of face-to-face instructors are also choosing to share materials (lecture slides, course … Continue reading
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