Will Engle
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 […]
AMS Announces Call for 2024 Nominations for OER Champions
The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is proud to announce a call for for students and other members of the UBC community to nominate UBC OER Champions — the faculty, staff, and administrators who dedicate their time contributing to the use of open educational resources (OER) at UBC. The significant costs associated with learning materials have […]
A Conversation on Open Educational Resources
Watch a conversation between AMS Vice-President, Academic and University Affairs, Kamil Kanji and UBC Vancouver VP & AVP Teaching and Learning, pro tem, Dr. Christina Hendricks, about OER.
OER Excellence and Impact Award Call for Nominations
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 at UBC Vancouver are invited to submit proposals for grants that support the use of open educational resources (OER) in UBC credit courses. OER are teaching and learning materials that are openly licensed to permit free access as well as adaptation and sharing. Since 2019, UBC has provided over $825,000 in OER […]
Inclusive and Diverse OER Image Repositories
Sources of openly licensed images to make OER more representative of the diversity of student experiences and backgrounds.
2023 OER Fund Fall Consulting Clinics and Studios
Are interested in developing an OER Fund grant proposal and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? This fall, the CTLT will host a number of consulting clinics to provide more information about the OER Fund: Proposal Development Consultations The CTLT is offering weekly online drop-in sessions for applicants who are planning […]
What is Open Scholarship?
Open scholarship is the application of open practices throughout the teaching, learning, and research environment with the goal to lower barriers to knowledge by making the processes and products of scholarship more distributed, transparent, and accessible.
