Rie Namba
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…
Minister of Advanced Education Visits UBC Class to Talk Open Textbooks
Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson visited a social psychology class at UBC on February 10, to talk to students about how they have benefitted from the use of open textbooks…
Open Dialogues: How to Engage with a New Generation of Learners
If you google “video game law” the first entry directs you to a UBC course website for Law 423B. The course, first taught five years ago, started out as a conventional law course…
Open Dialogues: How to Rethink Textbooks
In an effort to customize materials for their courses and save students money on rising textbook fees, instructors in the Math department at UBC have adopted open or freely accessible textbooks….
Open Case Studies
This project has brought together faculty and students from across departments and Faculties to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource on sustainability and environmental ethics…
Open Dialogues: How to make education more accessible
When Claudia Krebs, professor of teaching in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, first thought of making videos for a course in neuroanatomy, her focus was on re-thinking how students are taught in medical school…
BCCAMPUS OER STUDENT TOOLKIT
This toolkit aims to provide information on how to successfully advocate for greater OER adoption on campus…
Open Access Guide
This is an open library resource guide that provides learners information and support for open access publication…
Creative Commons Guide
The Creative Commons guide is an openly licensed guide developed to support faculty, staff and students adopting, adapting and producing open educational resources…
Open Education Resource Guide
The resources developed are meant to provide a single authoritative and sustainable space for all British Columbia postsecondary libraries in the identification and use of OER resources…
