Rie Namba
Use of Open Resources Continues to Increase
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.
Using open tools and resources
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.”
Open Dialogues: How to use open tools and resources for problem sets
For a long time engineering instructors have had homework problems for students in UBC’s Learning Management System (LMS). That is, until recently, when they found that students preferred the WeBWorK problems they were getting in their math courses. Agnes d’Entremont, an instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Jonathan Verrett, an instructor in […]
CLP Open Textbooks for Calculus
CLP are a series of four open calculus textbooks and problem books created by Joel Feldman, Andrew Rechnitzer and Elyse Yeager for UBC Calculus I, II and IV. They cover differential, integral, and vector Calculus. View Textbooks
Open Education Workshop Archive
A collection of openly-licensed slides and resources from different open education workshops that have been held at UBC.
Exploring tension and risk in open scholarship
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field.” – Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice UBC, in partnership […]
World Soil Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – December 5, 2017
To celebrate World Soil Day on December 5th, UBC will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on adding more content to Wikipedia about soils and soil science. Editing Wikipedia is a way for faculty, students and staff to engage in open collaboration, and contribute to public knowledge.
Open Scholarship in Practice seminar explores inclusive intersections between research and pedagogy
UBC faculty and students gathered at the Open Scholarship in Practice seminar, held in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Lillooet Room on September 29, to learn more about nascent technologies and innovative teaching approaches that encourage open scholarship. Advocates of open scholarship spent the day engaging the audience about what works – and what […]
Differential Calculus for the Life Sciences
Differential Calculus for the Life Sciences is an open textbook created by Leah Edelstein-Keshet and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Canvas Commons: Open Resource Sharing Made Easy – December 11, 2017
Canvas Commons is UBC’s new learning object repository that enables instructors to find, import, and share resources with UBC and the public. A worldwide library full of open educational content, the Canvas Commons allow UBC users to discover and find a broad range of subject specific resources from course design elements to problems sets. Join […]
