The OER Fund
New funding to support affordable & inclusive access to learning materials through the integration of open educational resources within UBC credit courses.
UBC Senate Endorses Principles for Learning Materials for Assessment
The UBC Senate has endorsed principles for digital learning materials used for assessment that address affordability and support open resources and platforms.
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.
Significant Use and Support for Open Resources at UBC
In academic year 2018, an estimated 15,388 UBC students were impacted by courses using open resources in place of paid textbooks or readings.
Expanding Learning Spaces Beyond Classroom Walls
UBC geography professor Siobhán McPhee is using technology to expand traditional learning spaces and make education accessible and relevant to more students.
Fostering Student-Created Knowledge
Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, is initiating student-led projects on the UBC Wiki, an open-source platform, to facilitate students as producers of knowledge.
Engaging and Supporting Students in Open Pedagogy
For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact, that can live beyond the classroom walls.
Using open tools and resources
For Jonathan Verrett, the use of open source tools is important as they allow others to build upon previous work and resources. “That allows educators to have access to more powerful tools to train students.”
Making Open Content Accessible
According to Tara Robertson, accessibility librarian at CAPER-BC, accessibility can help push the open education movement even further forward. Open educational resources and content should be accessible to all people.
Exploring the Social Web as an Educator
For Christina Hendrics the value of “peer to peer connecting is partly that students will learn a lot not just from what they hear from other people but from what they tell to other people. Conversations with other students bring such different perspectives and interpretations.”
