By Abigail Saxton on April 9, 2018 in Profiles, UBCV, Updates
Students in the Faculty of Forestry are no strangers to producing engaging content surrounding natural resources management — the medium is changing though. Janette Bulkan, Assistant Professor for Indigenous Studies 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.
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By Rie Namba on April 9, 2018 in Events, UBCV, Updates
Open scholarship, which encompasses open science, open access, open data, open education, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is transforming how knowledge is created and shared. Join us for a full day of hands-on workshops.
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By Rie Namba on February 16, 2018 in Events, UBCV, Updates
Open Education Week, March 5-9, 2018, is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Education Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open teaching and learning. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, […]
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By Wendy Chan on January 29, 2018 in Profiles, UBCV, Updates
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. “A big part of my pedagogy is getting students to think outside the limitations of the university,” explains Gaertner, an instructor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies. Rather […]
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By Will Engle on January 9, 2018 in Open UBC Snapshot, Reports, UBCV, Updates
In 2017, the adoption and use of open resources at UBC continued to increase. Since 2011, more than 47,000 UBC students have enrolled in courses in which instructors used open or freely accessible resources instead of traditional textbooks. At least $4.7 to $6.7 million dollars have been saved by UBC students in these courses and […]
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By Emi Sasagawa on November 30, 2017 in Profiles, UBCV, Updates
For a long time engineering instructors have had homework problems for students in UBC’s Learning Management System (LMS). That is, until recently, when they found that students preferred the WeBWorK problems they were getting in their math courses. Agnes d’Entremont, an instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Jonathan Verrett, an instructor in […]
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By Emi Sasagawa on November 20, 2017 in Events, UBCV, Updates
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field.” – Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice UBC, in partnership […]
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