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Champions

The following faculty members have championed open teaching at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Open Access Wall of Fame

The Toronto Metropolitan University Library's Open Access Wall of Fame honours instructors who have demonstrated a commitment to ensuring their teaching is open and available to all. 

Jennifer Lapum, Faculty of Community Services

Jennifer Lapum is a Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing and a leader and social justice advocate in the development and curricular integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) in post-secondary education. She has been a lead author and editor in the production of several e-textbooks that have involved creating original content combined with adapting and remixing existing OER. 

Paul Chafe and Aaron Tucker, Faculty of Arts

Paul Chafe and Aaron Tucker wanted to provide a free textbook to the over 1400 students who take SSH 205: Academic Writing and Research each year at Ryerson. They developed Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research.

Toronto Metropolitan University Open Moments

Toronto Metropolitan University Open Moments is a book that describes the journeys of eight educators who came to discover open education through projects in which they developed open educational resources. Each of these stories recounts a different journey towards open and what open education comes to mean for each of our storytellers. These stories vary based on their goals, their experiences of teaching, and the types of projects they pursued.

The following faculty members generously shared their stories: 

Aaron Tucker, Department of English, Faculty of Arts

Paul Chafe, Department of English, Faculty of Arts

Andrea Moraes, School of Nutrition, Faculty of Community Services

Chris MacDonald, School of Business Management, Ted Rogers School of Management

Richard Adams, School of Graphic Communications Management, Faculty of Communication and Design

Kathryn Underwood, School of Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Community Services

Wendy Garcia, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services

Jennifer Lapum, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services