World Soil Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – December 5, 2017
To celebrate World Soil Day on December 5th, UBC will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on adding more content to Wikipedia about soils and soil science. Editing Wikipedia is a way for faculty, students and staff to engage in open collaboration, and contribute to public knowledge.
Open Scholarship in Practice seminar explores inclusive intersections between research and pedagogy
UBC faculty and students gathered at the Open Scholarship in Practice seminar, held in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Lillooet Room on September 29, to learn more about nascent technologies and innovative teaching approaches that encourage open scholarship. Advocates of open scholarship spent the day engaging the audience about what works – and what […]
Canvas Commons: Open Resource Sharing Made Easy – December 11, 2017
Canvas Commons is UBC’s new learning object repository that enables instructors to find, import, and share resources with UBC and the public. A worldwide library full of open educational content, the Canvas Commons allow UBC users to discover and find a broad range of subject specific resources from course design elements to problems sets. Join […]
Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation: October 26, 2017
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field.” -Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice Spurred by the need […]
Small TLEF call for proposals open; 2018 Priority Focus on OER
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic is inviting proposals from faculty, staff and students for Small TLEF Project Grants (under $50,000). One of the priority focus areas for 2018 is the development or integration of open educational resources that are intended to be used in a course, multiple courses within a program, or across […]
Open Scholarship in Practice – September 29, 2017
“Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” – Association of Research Libraries
Science Literacy Week Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – September 18 12:00 – 3:00 PM
To celebrate National Science Literacy Week, September 18-25, UBC will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on adding more content to Wikipedia about Canadian Science and Scientists.
Open Dialogues: How to make open content accessible
The open education movement has helped people access content that they would otherwise not be able to view or interact with. Open education resources reduce costs for students and allow for greater flexibility for instructors.
UBC Open Textbook Adoption Snapshot
Since 2011, at least 46,000 UBC students have been impacted by a range of open educational practices, including 16,450 who have been enrolled…
Open Dialogues: How to do open courses
Gregor Kiczales, professor of computer science and Senior Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, has been doing open since before it was called open…
