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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.
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.
Open UBC Snapshot: Open as a TLEF Priority Focus
UBC-Vancouver’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) was created in 1991 to enrich student learning by supporting innovative and effective educational enhancements. Starting in the 2017/2018 cycle, a priority focus on the development or integration of open educational resources (OER) was added to the criteria for new proposals.
UBC GitHub Repositories
UBC’s GitHub page is a listing of open source code projects developed by the UBC Community.
UBC Canvas API User Community
The UCB Canvas API User Community is a community of people on working and sharing API scripts via GitHub for Canvas at UBC.
Fostering Student-Created Knowledge
Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, is initiating student-led projects on the UBC Wiki, an open-source platform, to facilitate students as producers of knowledge.
Open Dialogues: Using wiki pages to advance student-created knowledge
Students in the Faculty of Forestry are no strangers to producing engaging content surrounding natural resources management — the medium is changing though. Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor for Indigenous Studies in the Faculty of Forestry, is initiating student-led projects on the UBC Wiki, an open-source platform, to facilitate students as producers of knowledge.
2018 Open Scholarship In Practice – May 2, 2018
Open scholarship, which encompasses open science, open access, open data, open education, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is transforming how knowledge is created and shared. Join us for a full day of hands-on workshops.