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.
An Open Letter to UBC
Dear Educators at UBC Vancouver,
The AMS would like to commend you for all of the extra hours and hard work put into the restructuring of curriculum and adjusting to online platforms since earlier this year.
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
BCcampus Adoption Finder tool
Tool that helps identify open textbooks used at colleges, institutes, and universities in B.C.
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 […]
AMS Announces Call for 2021 Nominations for OER Champions
The AMS is excited to announce a call to nominate and honour OER Champions — those members of the UBC community who foster open education at UBC.
Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching and Learning
The 2020/21 academic year brought a transition to remote learning and delivery of online courses. This transition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed the importance of student ease of access to textbooks and other course materials. One strategy for ensuring students had barrier free access to learning materials was the use of open educational resources […]
Opening up a business analytics community
Sauder School of Business Professor Harish Krishnan aims to build a collaborative business analytics community, while developing sought-after skills, through his open, interactive platform.