ISP Objective 2
“Eliminate achievement gaps across different groups of learners, and honour, truth, reconciliation and rights.“
Strategic Objective
TRU will measurably eliminate achievement gaps and honour truth, reconciliation, and rights by developing, implementing and evaluating a holistic belonging model that addresses academic, material, and cultural needs of our learners.
The Open Press Solution
The TRU Open Press specifically addresses wholistic belonging for all learners by adapting resources to the academic, material, and cultural contexts of the TRU community. This includes localizing content to TRU learners’ needs, reducing classroom material costs by developing resources in-house, and providing Indigenized and internationalized content with a focus on intercultural learning.
Furthermore, the Open Press centralizes the existing expertise at TRU to develop multimodal and multimedia learning materials to reach more learners. It will also focus on supporting student researchers from across TRU by offering opportunities to learn how academic publishing works as well as developing undergraduate and graduate publishing opportunities.
Finally, TRU’s Open Press will address the material needs of learners by providing good, on-campus jobs for the development of skills in publishing, design, editing, and research.
OER Development
Supporting TRU faculty in the development of OER will help eliminate costs for all learners and the achievement gaps caused by them. Marginalized student populations, especially, will benefit from this initiative.
Multimodal, Multimedia & Localized Learning
Supporting the development of innovative, digital-first classroom resources that are designed to be universal will help reach more learners. As well, existing OERs can be localized and Indigenized to make them more directly relevant to TRU learners.
Engagement with Local Indigenous Community
Working with the Office of Indigenous Education and the local Secwépemc community to develop OERs will help promote meaningful engagements between these groups and TRU. This practice will extend to scholarly publishing and knowledge mobilization strategies.
