To celebrate Open Access Week, we joined open education grant recipients John Dian and Sabrina Cornish who talked about their work in open education. Both have collaborated with colleagues to create multiple openly licensed learning resources including books focusing on Internet of Things, a microbiology video series, and an animal dissection image collection.

Sabrina Cornish

Sabrina is an Assistant instructor in the Biotechnology Department. She has been instructing biology labs for the past decade and continues to instruct at both BCIT and Capilano University. Her previous experience as a parks and museum interpreter has shaped her teaching values, placing strong emphasis on hands-on learning and problem/project based learning. Alongside her colleagues in Biotechnology, Sabrina has completed two Open Education grant projects and an Instructional Enhancement Grant. These projects have focused on creating learning tools to help her students in their laboratory-based learning.

John Dian

John is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BCIT. He received his Ph.D. from Concordia University and has more than 20 years of experience in design and implementation of telecommunication circuits and systems. His research interests include Internet of Things, wireless telecommunication system design, and multimedia processing. Dr. Dian holds a certificate in business analytics from Harvard and co-chairs the Centre of Excellence in Analytics at BCIT. He is the 2023 recipient of the BCIT Employee Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence in Open Education.