OER in Focus – Bringing an Innovative Approach to Course Design
Explore OER UBC-funded projects that integrate programming tools, immersive 3D models, and real-life datasets to enhance learning.
Online Teaching Program
This open program is designed to help instructors adapt their courses for the online environment and prepare them to teach online. The program includes an openly licensed course with self-paced modules.
LAW424: Commercial Law
This course covers the legal and regulatory aspects of telecommunications, broadcasting and the Internet. The instructors are providing open access to course content, including lecture notes and slides, as well as open discussion on the course site.
GEOG352: Urbanization in the Global South
One of the primary tasks for a scholar of any field or discipline is to carefully examine an idea, a question, a hypothesis, or a challenge, and to emerge from that quest with a richer and more profound sense of its significance, value, context(s), and/or consequence. Students in GEOG352 are creating open wiki entries on a specific city and course theme, which are then added to a growing course map.
Teaching with WordPress
Teaching with Wordpress is open online course that explored and experimented with, among other things:
- open education, open pedagogy and design
- WordPress as a highly customizable framework for teaching and learning
Sustainable Forest Management Open Courses
A series of self-directed courses on sustainable forest management (SFM) for the Asian-Pacific region. The courses are intended to enable senior forestry students, young faculty and mid-career professionals to improve their knowledge of SFM flexibly.
Faculty Development Resources in Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine has developed several teaching programs that incorporate a blend of online and face-to-face materials that are available to be shared and adapted to various departments in medicine to use- following the Train the Trainer model. They also support this adaptation of our resources and will then categorize and share them.
A number of the resources are Creative Commons Licensed
Land and Food Systems 350 Wiki Project
This course uses UBC Wiki to host all of the course content. Students also work in groups to develop open articles about different topics in food science…
Linguistics 300 Wikipedia Editing Project
In Linguistics 300 (2014) as a project students collaboratively develop a Wikipedia entry in one of the following four themes…
ETEC 523 – Mobile and Open Learning
565M is an experiential immersion in proven and emerging potentials of mobile, social, flexible and open technologies and strategies for teaching and learning…
