The recorded webinar, "Working in Public: Generosity and the Knowledge Commons," explores Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick's ideas in her influential book, Generous Thinking. Read More
Georg Rieger is customizing an open physics textbook in such a way that it will be a great learning resource for anyone, but especially for international students. Read More
Robyn Newell is part of a group that received an OER Fund grant to create open biomechanics problems that are closer to real-world applications in order to help their students succeed. Read More
In 2020, Surita Jhangiani was awarded an OER Fund Grant and she explains the advantages of collaborating to create OER and why they’re moving away from commercial textbooks. Read More
UBCV is pleased to announce the 2020/21 call for OER Fund grant applications to support the adoption, creation, and use of OER in UBC credit courses. Read More
According to Dr. Daniel Heath Justice, a professor in the Department of First Nations and Indigenous Studies, if people are interested in decolonizing open education, they have a lot of work to do. Read More
In the 2019/20 academic year, an estimated 18,440 UBC students enrolled in courses using open resources in place of paid textbooks or readings. Read More
Over $220,050 has been awarded to support the development and implementation of a wide range of open projects. Read More
The UBC Senate has endorsed principles for digital learning materials used for assessment that address affordability and support open resources and platforms. Read More
For Cindy Underhill empathy supports open learning. Questions like, “how would students relate to this? What would this mean to students?" helps the creation of practical, open content. Read More
