Will Engle
Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching and Learning
The 2020/21 academic year brought a transition to remote learning and delivery of online courses. This transition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed the importance of student ease of access to textbooks and other course materials. In 2020/21, an estimated 19,152 students enrolled in courses using OERs in place of paid textbooks or readings. One […]
Analytics@Sauder
Analytics@Sauder is a collection of open-source business analytics tools and resources to enhance data analysis and meta-skills for business analytics professionals of all skill levels — including students in UBC Sauder School of Business Master of Business Analytics, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Commerce, and Master of Management programs.
Opening up a business analytics community
A Sauder School of Business Professor shares his open business analytics learning resource, through which he aims to build a business analytics community.
Opening up a business analytics community
Sauder School of Business Professor Harish Krishnan aims to build a collaborative business analytics community, while developing sought-after skills, through his open, interactive platform.
Online Teaching Program
This open program is designed to help instructors adapt their courses for the online environment and prepare them to teach online. The program includes an openly licensed course with self-paced modules.
Demonstration Videos and Teaching Guide for Core Communication Skills in Social Work Practice
This open toolkit includes five videos demonstrating basic communication skills and a teaching guide for instructors. The videos are a series of short vignettes of counselling sessions between a social worker and a client.
DTES Research Access Portal
The Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal provides access to research and research-related materials about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Browse by topic or search for items about the DTES, including scholarly articles and research summaries, as well as community materials such as reports, historical documents, and more.
OER Fund(ed): complex concepts, simple English
Georg Rieger is customizing an open physics textbook in such a way that it will be a great learning resource for anyone, but especially for international students.
OER Fund(ed): real-world problems for biomechanics students
Robyn Newell is part of a group that received an OER Fund grant to create open biomechanics problems that are closer to real-world applications in order to help their students succeed.
OER Fund(ed): diverse voices and ‘beyond the classroom’ projects
In 2020, Surita Jhangiani was awarded an OER Fund Grant and she explains the advantages of collaborating to create OER and why they’re moving away from commercial textbooks.
