UBC Open Textbook Adoption Snapshot
Since 2011, at least 46,000 UBC students have been impacted by a range of open educational practices, including 16,450 who have been enrolled…
Open Dialogues: How to do open courses
Gregor Kiczales, professor of computer science and Senior Advisor for Digital Learning Strategy, has been doing open since before it was called open…
Open Dialogues: How to use social pedagogies and the web as an educator
Scholarly practice is a word that’s usually tied to research and publications, but that doesn’t have to be all that it is. You can also do scholarly practice in more informal ways…
Open Education Week 2017
Open Education Week, March 27-31, 2017, 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…
Minister of Advanced Education Visits UBC Class to Talk Open Textbooks
Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson visited a social psychology class at UBC on February 10, to talk to students about how they have benefitted from the use of open textbooks…
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 Dialogues: How to Engage with a New Generation of Learners
If you google “video game law” the first entry directs you to a UBC course website for Law 423B. The course, first taught five years ago, started out as a conventional law course…
Open Dialogues: How to Rethink Textbooks
In an effort to customize materials for their courses and save students money on rising textbook fees, instructors in the Math department at UBC have adopted open or freely accessible textbooks….
Open Dialogues: How to make education more accessible
When Claudia Krebs, professor of teaching in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, first thought of making videos for a course in neuroanatomy, her focus was on re-thinking how students are taught in medical school…
Open Dialogues: How to engage the general public
“A lot of people in urban centres are aware of air quality, water quality. These are absolutely important issues, but so is soil,” said Maja Krzic…
