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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.
2018 Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in […]
The Science Education Initiative Handbook
This openly-licensed Handbook is based on the Science Education Initiative (SEI), a transformative initiative aimed at changing STEM teaching practices in university settings.
UBC JupyterDay 2018
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and UBC Department of Mathematics invite you to UBC JupyterDay 2018! Jupyter is an open web application for producing computational narratives: a notebook in the browser which runs code and renders text, mathematical notation, images and videos. JupyterDay is an opportunity for instructors, researchers and students at UBC to share their Jupyter experiences and to learn about new Jupyter tools.
Expanding Learning Spaces Beyond Classroom Walls
UBC geography professor Siobhán McPhee is using technology to expand traditional learning spaces and make education accessible and relevant to more students.
Open Dialogues: Extending Learning Beyond Classroom Walls
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhán McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage. In collaboration with students and the university’s Emerging Media Lab, McPhee developed an app utilizing augmented reality to create an urban history tour of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods following the influence of the Canadian Pacific Railway […]
Can I Use This? Exploring Copyright & OER Workshop – August 21
If you are preparing resources for your teaching, from PowerPoint slides to online modules, chances are you’ll want to incorporate readings, images, video clips, problem sets, or other materials from different sources. This session will focus on the pragmatic elements of reuse, the essentials of copyright, and the basics of working with open educational resources that are licensed to allow revision and reuse. Such openly-licensed resources can impact teaching and learning through contextualization, time savings, and lowering student access barriers such as costs. Please bring your questions and join us in exploring UBC’s Copyright and Fair-Dealing guidelines and how copyright intersects with effective teaching practices.
For more information, please visit the workshop registration page.
For more information, please visit the workshop registration page.
UBC Open Dialogues
UBC Open Dialogues are a series of videos and articles where UBC faculty, students, and staff discuss and reflect upon their open practices and approaches. Topics include how to do open courses, how to make open content accessible, how to practice responsible pedagogy, how to rethink textbooks, how to engage the general public, and more.
Teaching with WordPress
Teaching with Wordpress is open online course that explored and experimented with, among other things:
- open education, open pedagogy and design
- WordPress as a highly customizable framework for teaching and learning
Open as a TLEF Focus
UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund was created in 1991 to enrich student learning by supporting innovative educational enhancements. Starting in the 2017/2018 cycle, a focus on open educational resources (OER) was added to the criteria for new proposals.
