Will Engle
2023 Summer OER Accessibility Clinics
Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an online OER Accessibility clinic to chat with specialists about how to design or adapt […]
Creating Accessible OER Workshop Series
Join us for a series of workshops about how to design or adapt OER so they are more accessible for all learners. We’ll explore different content types, formats, and examine how layout/format choices affect different users.
OER Grant Support for Affordable Course Materials – Deadline Jan. 19, 20
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver is pleased to invite the UBC Vancouver community to apply for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants.
AMS Announces Call for 2022 Nominations for OER Champions
The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is excited to announce that on November 30th, 2022, we will be hosting an event to honour those who work in Open Education at UBC. The call is now open for students and other members of the UBC community to nominate OER Champions
2022 OER Fund Evaluation Snapshot
The UBC Vancouver Open Educational Resources (OER) Fund, established through the UBC Academic Excellence Fund, aims to support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials through the adoption, adaptation, development, and integration of open educational resources in UBCV credit courses. In 2019, UBCV initially committed $1 million over four years to the UBCV OER Fund. As of spring 2022, […]
H5P Symposium: Feb 22-23
In this multi-day H5P symposium, we will introduce you to H5P, demonstrate its strengths and limitations, and highlight successful examples of implementation and course integration for various content types (e.g. multiple choice question sets, auto-graded essays, drag and drop, and interactive videos).
OER in STEM: Opportunities & Challenges
Open resources can be an important tool for reducing student textbook costs. Dr. Agnes d’Entremont from UBC Mechanical Engineering explains why it’s harder to develop or adapt them for STEM — and the opportunities if we do.
OER Fund(ed): Using Open Educational Resources to Support Student Learning Inside and Outside of Class
Jonathan Verret received a 2019/20 OER Implementation Grant for a project that resulted in the creation of a “Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering” open textbook. This resource, which provides an introduction to foundational topics of chemical engineering…
OER Fund(ed): Bringing culture and community to online language learning
Last year, Dr. Mark Turin and other faculty members from the UBC Himalaya Program received an Open Education Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation Grant for their proposal: Nepali and Tibetan Language in a Community Context. The resulting project created two OER courses, developed by UBC Himalaya Program and Asian Studies language instructors Binod Shrestha (Nepali) and […]
