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UBC OER Match Funding Available for UBCV Faculty Members

By Will Engle on May 15, 2020 in Funding Updates, UBCV, Updates

BCcampus recently announced a call for proposals targeting the development of formative activities for open homework systems. Successful proposals from faculty members at UBC Vancouver are eligible for match funding…

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2020 Open UBC Webinars

By Will Engle on April 15, 2020 in Events, UBCV, Updates

Members of the Open UBC Working Group are offering bi-monthly open scholarship (open access, open data, open education, open research, etc.) webinars.

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Open UBC Snapshot 2020: Significant Commitments to Open Resources

By Will Engle on March 9, 2020 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates

In the 2019/20 academic year (September 2019 to April 2020), an estimated 18,440 students enrolled in courses using open resources in place of paid textbooks or readings. This replacement of traditional textbooks with open resources has potentially saved UBC students an estimated $1.8 to $2.5 million this academic year.

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Announcing the 2019/20 Open Educational Resources Fund awarded projects

By Will Engle on February 27, 2020 in Funding Updates, UBCV, Updates

Over $220,050 has been awarded to support the development and implementation of a wide range of open projects.

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Call for Applications for Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants

By Will Engle on September 10, 2019 in Funding Updates, UBCV, Updates

New funding to support affordable & inclusive access to learning materials through the integration of OER within UBC credit courses.

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Open UBC Snapshot 2019: Significant Use and Support for Open Resources

By Will Engle on January 3, 2019 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates

In 2018, UBC published a new Strategic Plan that articulated the intention to expand the creation and dissemination of open educational resources as well as recognized the contributions that UBC faculty, student and staff have made in this area.In academic year 2018, an estimated 15,388 UBC students were impacted by courses using open resources in […]

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2018 UBC Teaching Practices Survey: Open Focus Report

By Will Engle on December 6, 2018 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, Updates

In order to better understand faculty teaching practices, attitudes about teaching, and perceptions of the teaching climate at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, UBC conducted a 2018 Teaching Practices Survey earlier this year. UBC has now released a mini report that examined whether instructors require students to obtain textbooks (or other texts) and/or other digital learning materials.

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Open UBC Snapshot: Open as a TLEF Priority Focus

By Will Engle on May 29, 2018 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates

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.

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Open UBC Snapshot: Use of Open Resources Continues to Increase

By Will Engle on January 9, 2018 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates

In 2017, the adoption and use of open resources at UBC continued to increase. Since 2011, more than 47,000 UBC students have enrolled in courses in which instructors used open or freely accessible resources instead of traditional textbooks. At least $4.7 to $6.7 million dollars have been saved by UBC students in these courses and […]

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Open UBC Snapshots: Textbook Displacements by Open Resources

By Will Engle on December 10, 2016 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Uncategorized, Updates

Open UBC Snapshots is a new resource that will quantify and explore emerging trends in open educational practices at UBC…

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