Rie Namba
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.
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.”
ENGL470D CanLit Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
UBC’s English 470D (Canadian Studies), focuses on the intersection of Canadian Literature and Web 2.0…
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
“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
“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”
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.”
Rosie Redfield
“Open is all about our responsibility to the students, to do our best by the students”
Open Dialogues: How to use social pedagogies and the web as an educator
Scholarly practice is a word that’s usually tied to research and publications, but that doesn’t have to be all that it is. You can also do scholarly practice in more informal ways…
Open Education Week 2017
Open Education Week, March 27-31, 2017, is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Education Week, UBC showcases…
