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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.
Roundtable on Representing Open Education in Tenure & Promotion Processes
Open pedagogies and resources are enabling faculty to reduce barriers to learning by opening their classrooms, developing new educational resources, and contributing their efforts to public knowledge. In this recorded round table discussion, UBC faculty members and open education leaders discussed their experiences, including challenges and successes, in representing their open education work for tenure and promotion.
Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science
In this recorded talk, Dr. Ben Motz, an assistant professor at Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, ties different themes of open scholarship together.
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.
