By Neha Tadepalli on September 8, 2019 in Events, UBCV, Updates
The AMS has issued an open call to nominate OER Champions — the faculty, staff, and administrators who dedicate so much of their time to fostering accessible education at UBC.
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By Christina Hendricks on May 24, 2019 in Reports, UBCV, Updates
In May 2018, the UBC Vancouver Senate Teaching and Learning Committee presented to the UBC Vancouver Senate, as a topic of “broad academic interest,” about fees for access to digital learning materials that are used for assessment. Guidelines relating to cost and use of digital materials for assessment purposes exist for post-secondary institutions in Alberta […]
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By Abigail Saxton on January 7, 2019 in Profiles, UBCV, Updates
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.
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By Will Engle on January 3, 2019 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates
In 2018, UBC published a new Strategic Plan that articulated the intention to expand the creation and dissemination of open educational resources as well as recognized the contributions that UBC faculty, student and staff have made in this area.In academic year 2018, an estimated 15,388 UBC students were impacted by courses using open resources in […]
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By Will Engle on December 6, 2018 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, Updates
In order to better understand faculty teaching practices, attitudes about teaching, and perceptions of the teaching climate at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, UBC conducted a 2018 Teaching Practices Survey earlier this year. UBC has now released a mini report that examined whether instructors require students to obtain textbooks (or other texts) and/or other digital learning materials.
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By Rie Namba on October 10, 2018 in Events, UBCV, Updates
Open Access Week is an is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in […]
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By Rie Namba on August 8, 2018 in Events, UBCV, Updates
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and UBC Department of Mathematics invite you to UBC JupyterDay 2018! Jupyter is an open web application for producing computational narratives: a notebook in the browser which runs code and renders text, mathematical notation, images and videos. JupyterDay is an opportunity for instructors, researchers and students at UBC to share their Jupyter experiences and to learn about new Jupyter tools.
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By Abigail Saxton on July 24, 2018 in Profiles, UBCV, Updates
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhán McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage. In collaboration with students and the university’s Emerging Media Lab, McPhee developed an app utilizing augmented reality to create an urban history tour of Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods following the influence of the Canadian Pacific Railway […]
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