Rie Namba
UBC Projects in the Open Science Framework
This is a list of the UBC faculty and staff using the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share their projects openly.
GEOG352: Urbanization in the Global South
One of the primary tasks for a scholar of any field or discipline is to carefully examine an idea, a question, a hypothesis, or a challenge, and to emerge from that quest with a richer and more profound sense of its significance, value, context(s), and/or consequence. Students in GEOG352 are creating open wiki entries on a specific city and course theme, which are then added to a growing course map.
forall x (UBC Edition)
This is an open-access introductory logic textbook, prepared by Jonathan Ichikawa, based on P.D. Magnus’s forallx. This book is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. It contains content, practice exercises, symbolic notations, and solutions to selected exercises.
Phyto’pedia
Phyto’pedia is an online encyclopaedia of common phytoplankton from the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Inside, the reader will find an extensive database of high-resolution images indicating the characteristic features of a variety of genera and species paired with carefully written descriptions.
RFID controlled Booking + Access Control
UBC students created project for controlling access to machinery in the Mechanical Engineering machine shop. The open source system allows registered users to book equipment and claim the booking on the machine by presenting an RFID token to the reader…
Embedding Empathy into Open Learning
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.
Open UBC Snapshot: Significant Use and Support for Open Resources
In 2018, UBC published a new Strategic Plan that articulated the intention to expand the creation and dissemination of open educational resources as well as recognized the contributions that UBC faculty, student and staff have made in this area. These contributions have had a significant impact: in academic year 2018, an estimated 15,388 students were impacted by courses using open resources in place of paid textbooks or readings. This replacement of traditional textbooks with open resources has potentially saved UBC students an estimated $1.5 to $2.3 million dollars this academic year. The wide diversity of UBC open education initiatives and efforts, from strong AMS advocacy and innovative instructor efforts to increased strategic support and funding, is helping to ensure that the adoption and use of open resources continues to be a significant practice at UBC.
2018 Open Access Week at UBC
As part of Open Access Week in late October, UBC will be hosting diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship in which UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate.
