Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, is initiating student-led projects on the UBC Wiki, an open-source platform, to facilitate students as producers of knowledge.
Open scholarship, which encompasses open science, open access, open data, open education, and other forms of openness is transforming how knowledge is created and shared. Join us on May 2, 2018 for a full day of hands-on workshops.
UBC Library to support faculty in creating open textbooks and open educational resources through 1-year grant project
For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact, that can live beyond the classroom walls.
Since 2011, more than 47,000 UBC students have enrolled in courses that used open resources instead of traditional textbooks. At least $4.7 to $6.7 million dollars have been saved by UBC students in these courses and these figures are increasing.
For Jonathan Verrett, the use of open source tools is important as they allow others to build upon previous work and resources. "That allows educators to have access to more powerful tools to train students.”
For the 2017 Open Access Week, Speakers from UBC, SFU, BCIT, BCcampus, and Camosun College explored themes relating to Indigenous & traditional knowledge, ethics & privacy, accessibility & inclusivity, and more.
According to Tara Robertson, accessibility librarian at CAPER-BC, accessibility can help push the open education movement even further forward. Open educational resources and content should be accessible to all people.
For Christina Hendrics the value of "peer to peer connecting is partly that students will learn a lot not just from what they hear from other people but from what they tell to other people. Conversations with other students bring such different perspectives and interpretations."
Maja Krzic: "If we don’t evolve, if we don’t try to do new things, we are trapped in how our discipline is taught and regarded. So I am hopeful that [open education] will continue to grow in popularity and use in my discipline."