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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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A Year of Open at Ontario Tech

A Year of Open at Ontario Tech.

Symposium for Effective Teaching and Learning in the Sciences

A day-long series of talks, interactive workshops, demos and panels focusing on modern methods of effective teaching and learning in science at the university level. Open educational resources was presented to attendees as an introduction to the concept and to promote awareness of OER on campus.

Serving Access, Equity, and Innovation through Open Educational Practices: Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani

The Campus Libraries welcomed Rajiv Jhangiani, PhD, to campus to speak on open educational practices: teaching techniques that draw upon ‘open’ (public domain) technologies and educational resources to enable collaborative and flexible learning.

Dr. Jhangiani is Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education and a Psychology Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia. He is also Co-Director of the Open Pedagogy Notebook, and serves as an Associate Editor of Psychology Learning and Teaching and an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science.

In his talk, entitled Serving Access, Equity, and Innovation through Open Educational Practices, Dr. Jhangiani explored how the shift away from traditional, closed practices can provide a learner-centred approach to education.

International Open Education Week

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. This year, the Teaching & Learning Centre, Library, Faculty of Education, and the university Student Union hosted a series of drop-in sessions to introduce the Ontario Tech community to OPEN.

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