Rie Namba
Open, Equitable, Affordable, and Transparent: Progress on the Road to True Open Access: A Talk by Ginny Steel
On Friday, Sept 13, UBC had the pleasure of hosting Ginny Steel, University Librarian at UCLA, who presented a brief review of the history of the Open Access movement, the latest developments, the implications for libraries and the academy, and answered several questions from the audience. Earlier this year, Steel and her colleagues at the […]
Can We Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event
Join Langara, Kwantlen, BCIT, SFU, and UBC for an exciting half-day celebration of Open Access Week (Oct 21-27, 2019). This year’s theme from SPARC is Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge. Our keynote speaker, Jessie Loyer, will explore this question alongside participants through the lens of decolonization. The conversation will continue with local panelists […]
AMS Calls for Nominations for OER Champions
The AMS has issued an open call to nominate OER Champions — the faculty, staff, and administrators who dedicate so much of their time to fostering accessible education at UBC.
New Open UBC site
The new Open UBC site has launched today on Aug 26, Monday. There were three goals for the site relaunch.
Under Creative Construction Video
Two videos explore the importance of creativity in social and environmental justice movements around the world.
Open Data Structures Data Simulation
A reorganization and modernization of Open Data Structures(ODS) by Pat Morin. This new text refocuses the classic content of ODS on data structure design by presenting Abstract Data Types as interfaces for which creating and critiquing algorithmic solutions.
Physics Meta-Cognitive Reader
A student meta-cognitive reader to accompany an existing open textbook covering calculus-based physics. This resource highlights key concepts, points out student difficulties, and provides links to support learning.
Syzygy
syzygy.ca is a project of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Compute Canada and Cybera to bring Jupyter notebooks to researchers, educators and innovators across Canada.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an online publishing platform that is built on the WordPress publishing and blogging platform.
