Engaging the General Public Through Open
Maja Krzic: “If we don’t evolve, if we don’t try to do new things, we are trapped in how our discipline is taught and regarded. So I am hopeful that [open education] will continue to grow in popularity and use in my discipline.”
Claudia Krebs
“When you look at access to post-secondary education worldwide, there are a lot of countries who can’t afford to produce media like this. We can and so we should share that information …”
Arthur Gill Green
“Open pedagogy can help instructors reinvent some of the ways that they teach and open up a discussion with the students about their needs. It recognizes we are all learners in process”
Mark MacLean
“In the 2016 academic year, instructors in 16 math courses have adopted open or free textbooks, impacting 7,000 students and saving them between $608,000 and $1,024,000. “We have to make sure that if we choose to build these resources to understand what they are and how they affect student experiences in learning.”
Rosie Redfield
“Open is all about our responsibility to the students, to do our best by the students”
Open UBC Snapshots: Textbook Displacements by Open Resources
Open UBC Snapshots is a new resource that will quantify and explore emerging trends in open educational practices at UBC…
Open Access Guide
This is an open library resource guide that provides learners information and support for open access publication…
Creative Commons Guide
The Creative Commons guide is an openly licensed guide developed to support faculty, staff and students adopting, adapting and producing open educational resources…
Open Education Resource Guide
The resources developed are meant to provide a single authoritative and sustainable space for all British Columbia postsecondary libraries in the identification and use of OER resources…
HLWIKI International (Archive)
The objective of the HLWIKI is to build a health sciences librarianship wiki with an international perspective, but also to emphasize issues affecting practice in Canada. For example, it focuses on expert searching to support the development of systematic reviews in medicine, and searching for the grey literature. The HLWIKI International Advisory supports the Creative Commons principles of sharing and collaboration (i.e. copyleft).
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