AMS Calls for Nominations for OER Champions
The AMS has issued an open call to nominate OER Champions — the faculty, staff, and administrators who dedicate so much of their time to fostering accessible education at UBC.
New Open UBC site
The new Open UBC site has launched today on Aug 26, Monday. There were three goals for the site relaunch.
UBC Vancouver Senate Endorses Principles for Digital Learning Materials Used for Assessment
In May 2018, the UBC Vancouver Senate Teaching and Learning Committee presented to the UBC Vancouver Senate, as a topic of “broad academic interest,” about fees for access to digital learning materials that are used for assessment. Guidelines relating to cost and use of digital materials for assessment purposes exist for post-secondary institutions in Alberta […]
Embedding Empathy into Open Learning
For Cindy Underhill empathy supports open learning. Questions like, “how would students relate to this? What would this mean to students?” helps the creation of practical, open content.
Open UBC Snapshot 2019: Significant Use and Support for Open Resources
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 […]
2018 Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in […]
UBC JupyterDay 2018
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and UBC Department of Mathematics invite you to UBC JupyterDay 2018! Jupyter is an open web application for producing computational narratives: a notebook in the browser which runs code and renders text, mathematical notation, images and videos. JupyterDay is an opportunity for instructors, researchers and students at UBC to share their Jupyter experiences and to learn about new Jupyter tools.
Open Dialogues: Extending Learning Beyond Classroom Walls
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhán McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage. In collaboration with students and the university’s Emerging Media Lab, McPhee developed an app utilizing augmented reality to create an urban history tour of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods following the influence of the Canadian Pacific Railway […]
Can I Use This? Exploring Copyright & OER Workshop – August 21
If you are preparing resources for your teaching, from PowerPoint slides to online modules, chances are you’ll want to incorporate readings, images, video clips, problem sets, or other materials from different sources. This session will focus on the pragmatic elements of reuse, the essentials of copyright, and the basics of working with open educational resources that are licensed to allow revision and reuse. Such openly-licensed resources can impact teaching and learning through contextualization, time savings, and lowering student access barriers such as costs. Please bring your questions and join us in exploring UBC’s Copyright and Fair-Dealing guidelines and how copyright intersects with effective teaching practices.
For more information, please visit the workshop registration page.
For more information, please visit the workshop registration page.
The TLEF 2019 funding round is now open
Call for Letters of Intent for Undergraduate Program Evaluation and Renewal projects and Large Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Transformation projects. Proposals that address the creation or integration of open educational resources to make education more affordable and accessible to students are especially welcome.
