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A community of people working on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects at UBC.

Christina Hendricks at class

Exploring the Social Web as an Educator


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.”

Sustainable Forest Management

Sustainable Forest Management Open Courses


A series of self-directed courses on sustainable forest management (SFM) for the Asian-Pacific region. The courses are intended to enable senior forestry students, young faculty and mid-career professionals to improve their knowledge of SFM flexibly.

Maja teaching at her class

Engaging the General Public Through Open


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.”

Gregor Kiczales at his office

Open Dialogues: How to do open courses


Gregor Kiczales, professor of computer science and Senior Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, has been doing open since before it was called open…

Claudia Krebs with a diagram on a chalkboard

Claudia Krebs


“When you look at access to post-secondary education worldwide, there are a lot of countries who can’t afford to produce media like this. We can and so we should share that information …”
Arthur Gill Green teaching at class

Arthur Gill Green


“Open pedagogy can help instructors reinvent some of the ways that they teach and open up a discussion with the students about their needs. It recognizes we are all learners in process”
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Mark MacLean


“In the 2016 academic year, instructors in 16 math courses have adopted open or free textbooks, impacting 7,000 students and saving them between $608,000 and $1,024,000. “We have to make sure that if we choose to build these resources to understand what they are and how they affect student experiences in learning.”
a photo of Rosie Redfield at her office

Rosie Redfield


“Open is all about our responsibility to the students, to do our best by the students”