Category Archives: Open Access

EVENT – Planes, trains, and generative AI: Recentering open education values in new technology adoption

Posted on February 21, 2024 by Lindsay Tripp

Many educators have felt pressure to climb aboard the generative AI train since it came barreling down the tracks. But what happens when we leap into new technologies without first pausing to imagine harms, such as surveillance, bias, and discrimination? … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Open Student Scholar Prize!

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Amelia Clarkson

In March and April of this year Open Langara and the Library jointly ran the Open Student Scholar Prize for the second time, with great success! The judges were pleasantly surprised to receive almost double the number of submissions from … Continue reading →

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2021 Langara Open Student Scholar Prize

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Dan Slessor

We are now accepting submissions for the 2021 Langara Open Student Scholar Prize. This prize, created by the Langara Library, Open Langara, and the Langara Institutional Repository (The LaIR), celebrates exemplary work being done by Langara students and offers them the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Langara embarks on an exciting partnership for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Lindsay Tripp

Exciting news! snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ – Langara College has joined Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Thompson Rivers University, and four US colleges (Montgomery College, Maricopa Community Colleges, Pima Community College, and the Community College of Baltimore County) as an institutional partner in the … Continue reading →

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Open Education Project Spotlight: Computer Science’s Saeed Mirjalili

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Lindsay Tripp

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

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Lindsay Tripp

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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“That’ll be $0, please”: Art History forgoes textbooks, embraces open education

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Lindsay Tripp

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)

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Lindsay Tripp

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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Announcing the Open Student Scholar Prize Winners!

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Amelia Clarkson

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the first ever Open Student Scholar Prize! In February and March of this year Open Langara and the Library jointly ran the Open Student Scholar Prize with great success! The Judges were … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Langara Open Student Scholar Prize

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Amelia Clarkson

In partnership with Open Langara and the Langara Institutional Repository (The LaIR), this term the Library is pleased to announce the first Open Student Scholar Prize. This prize celebrates the exemplary work being done by our students and offers them … Continue reading →

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