Examples: Open Code

Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) is based on the law of comparative judgement conceived by L. L. Thurstone in 1927 as a method for psychological measurements. First used for psychological measurements, today it offers an alternative to marking, especially for performance assessments for which achievement can be difficult to describe in mark schemes and for those where inter-marker reliability is often a problem. This application is based on an updated 2012 paper which details ACJ’s method and history. Students answer questions asked by instructors or other students and are then able to compare and judge the given answers. From these judgements a score for each answer is calculated according to ACJ’s methods.

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ErmineJ performs analyses of gene sets in expression microarray data. A typical goal is to determine whether particular biological pathways are “doing something interesting” in the data. The software is designed to be used by biologists with little or no informatics background. A command-line interface is available for users who wish to script the use of ermineJ. It is licensed under a Apache 2.0 free software license.

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iPeer is an open source web application that allows instructors to develop and deliver rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments and scoring. Instructors can analyze evaluation results and provide students with grades and feedback for their group performance. View site

A public hours and locations portal and admin application for maintenance of library hours and locations, created by UBC Library Systems & IT.

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The UBC Library has entered into a major partnership with Public Knowledge Project (PKP), furthering a commitment to the development of scholarly communication software. As a result of this agreement, UBC Library will support and assist PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite – Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS) and Open Harvester Systems (OHS), and Open Monograph Press (OMP).

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UBC students created project for controlling access to machinery in the Mechanical Engineering machine shop. The project has three components:

• A Raspberry Pi equipped with an RFID reader and a relay. An open source booking software with API that allows for programmatical interaction with this booking site.

• A server running various open source software components that represent the heart of the administrative interface.

• A registered user can make a booking on the booking site and claim the booking by presenting an RFID token to the reader.

The interacting between the administrative site and the booking site is automated. Once a user is registered in the admin database, the booking site will update with the data on record. This separation of the booking system and the admin site allows for great flexibility on what services the system can provide. For more information, please contact the developer via GitHub.

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SoTL Explorer is a tool that aggregates and visualizes data about Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) projects, and other evaluations projects that are taking place at UBC. Instructors, researchers, and project managers are encouraged to contribute by entering their projects into the database. The motivation to create the tool was threefold:

• For current project teams: to communicate what they do, identify related projects, and promote transfer of knowledge,
• For future project teams: to help design their evaluation projects,
• For high-level administration: to identify trends and patterns in SoTL.

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A community of people working on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects at UBC. Includes a curated directory of UBC organizations and FOSS projects.

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GitHub is one of the most widely used and popular platforms where people are developing and sharing code. UBC’s GitHub page is a listing of open source code projects developed by the UBC Community that are being shared on GitHub. View Site