{"id":35987,"date":"2025-10-03T18:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=35987"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:33:06","slug":"building-a-future-of-open-education-at-ufv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2025\/10\/03\/building-a-future-of-open-education-at-ufv\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Future of Open Education at UFV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UFV Library and Teaching & Learning teams are launching the Open Education In-Action Initiative (OEIAI), funded by a BCcampus Institutional Open Education grant and funds from the Office of the Provost and VP, Academic. OEIAI has 4 interconnected projects: Open Education Strategy, planning Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) implementation plan, Open Education Micro Grant program, and the creation of an Open Education website.<\/p>\n

Dr. Shaun Sun, appointed Open Education Strategist until April 2026, will lead consultations across faculties and student groups. Having taught with free open-licensed textbooks since 2018, he has already helped hundreds of students avoid textbook costs. UFV\u2019s goal is to move from scattered OER adoption to a coordinated strategy that makes learning more accessible.<\/p>\n

Beginning Fall 2025, courses without required textbooks will be flagged as ZTC. The OEIAI will also fund short projects and student assistants to expand open resource use.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/tlc\/2025\/09\/25\/building-a-future-of-open-education-at-ufv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, contact Michelle Andrus at TLCevents@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

10\/31\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UFV Library and Teaching & Learning teams are launching the Open Education In-Action Initiative (OEIAI), funded by a BCcampus Institutional Open Education grant and funds from the Office of the Provost and VP, Academic. OEIAI has 4 interconnected projects: Open Education Strategy, planning Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) implementation plan, Open Education Micro Grant program, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":35988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35987\/revisions\/36046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}