Will Engle
Defining and Recognizing Excellence in OER
Last year the offices of the Vice-President Academic at both UBC Okanagan and UBC Vancouver launched the UBC Open Education Resources Excellence and Impact Awards to recognize outstanding work by faculty who have materially advanced the use and impact of OER at UBC.
2025 UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Recipients Announced
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of the 2025 UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Recipients […]
Open-Access Allard Research Portal Reaches One Million Downloads
The Peter A. Allard School of Law’s open-access research portal, the Allard Research Commons, has reached a significant new milestone with one million downloads of its research papers by users worldwide. Launched in 2017 with the goal of making Allard Law research more accessible, the Allard Research Commons hosts a wide range of scholarly works, […]
Allard Research Commons
The Allard Research Commons (ARC) is the open access institutional repository of scholarship for the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC. ARC preserves the broad range of scholarship done by scholars at or affiliated with Allard Law and makes that scholarship available to the public.
Call for Group Nominations for UBC OER Excellence and Impact Awards
The OER Excellence and Impact Awards consists of one individual and one team-based award of $5,000 per campus. Any member of the UBC community can nominate an individual faculty member or group for the award and self-nominations are welcome.
Call for Proposals for OER Grants
Faculty and staff in Vancouver are invited to submit proposals for grants that support the use of open educational resources (OER) in UBC Vancouver credit courses. OER are freely accessible educational materials that permit open use, modification, and adaptation. Since 2019, over $991,000 in OER grant funding has been awarded to 96 projects across 12 […]
OER Project Evaluation Workshop – August 8
Evaluation activities are important to think about throughout the life of an OER project as they allow grant holders project teams to monitor and refine the development of the project. Evaluation also allows reporting on the project impact, which will help project teams to engage others in better understanding the potential of the project for […]
UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Recipients Announced
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of the inaugural UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. These awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Recipients were selected based on […]
The Possibility of New Futures: Dreaming with Open Education – March 20
Please join us virtually on March 6th at 4pm PST for the first of three talks related to the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. This session will focus on Open Education, exploring how you can use and create open educational materials for use in your classes.
Attend the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 12
A 2011 survey by the Wikimedia Foundation found that fewer than 10% of Wikipedia contributors identified as women. In 2014, Art + Feminism was launched by librarians, artists, curators, and educators to correct the gender imbalance in Wikipedia contributors and content. Since then, the project has grown worldwide. This year, the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin […]
