Grant program: Open Educational Resources Grant Program

Grant recipient: Heesoon Bai, Faculty of Education

Project team: Laurie Anderson and Charles Scott, Faculty of Education, Kristina Berynets and Scott Bowering, research assistants

Timeframe: September 2017 to December 2019

Funding: $4,995

Courses addressed: 

• EDUC 833 – Social and Moral Philosophy in Education
• EDUC 820 – Current Issues in Curriculum and Pedagogy
• EDUC 843 – Embodiment and Curriculum Inquiry
• EDUC 823 – Curriculum and Instruction in an Individual Teaching Speciality
• EDUC 816 – Developing Educational Programs and Practices for Diverse Educational Settings
• EDUC 904 – Fieldwork III

Description: Our Contemplative Inquiry (under Curriculum and Instruction MEd) Master of Education program introduces and cultivates a relatively new field of education that seeks to “infuse” the traditional subject areas of knowledge and skills acquisition in education with contemplative modalities. Our plan for the OER Grant is to (a) philosophically re-frame curriculum and pedagogy in the terms of the contemplative; and (2) curate curriculum and research materials for our explicit pedagogical needs. The OER Grant will serve to allow us to create a digital repository for the collective work we do.

Knowledge sharing: Eventually, we hope to have a program website that houses such resources and makes them available to others. The first step is to decide where we would house these resources; our likely initial choice is SFU Summit. Our second step is to compile a listing of helpful resources produced by faculty members associated with our program that meet the ‘open’ criteria. Next would be to expand this offering by searching out open resources produced by other scholars and experts in the field.