UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Recipients Announced
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of the inaugural UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. These awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Recipients were selected based on […]
Beyond the Classroom: Promoting and Supporting EDI in Health Care Education with Open Education
Beyond the Classroom is a Q&A series where ALT-2040 project teams share their thoughts and experiences leading learning transformation at UBC Okanagan.
This Q&A features:
Lead Applicant: Dr. Zoë Soon
Project: Development of Open Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology Instructor and Student Resources that Promote and Support EDI in Health Care Education
A Conversation on Open Educational Resources
Watch a conversation between AMS Vice-President, Academic and University Affairs, Kamil Kanji and UBC Vancouver VP & AVP Teaching and Learning, pro tem, Dr. Christina Hendricks, about OER.
What is Open Scholarship?
Open scholarship is the application of open practices throughout the teaching, learning, and research environment with the goal to lower barriers to knowledge by making the processes and products of scholarship more distributed, transparent, and accessible.
Roundtable on Representing Open Education in Tenure & Promotion Processes
Open pedagogies and resources are enabling faculty to reduce barriers to learning by opening their classrooms, developing new educational resources, and contributing their efforts to public knowledge. In this recorded round table discussion, UBC faculty members and open education leaders discussed their experiences, including challenges and successes, in representing their open education work for tenure and promotion.
UBC Library research project explores Indigenous perspectives in open education resource development
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer.
OER in STEM: Opportunities & Challenges
Open resources can be an important tool for reducing student textbook costs. Dr. Agnes d’Entremont from UBC Mechanical Engineering explains why it’s harder to develop or adapt them for STEM — and the opportunities if we do.
OER Fund(ed): Using Open Educational Resources to Support Student Learning Inside and Outside of Class
Jonathan Verret received a 2019/20 OER Implementation Grant for a project that resulted in the creation of a “Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering” open textbook. This resource, which provides an introduction to foundational topics of chemical engineering…
OER Fund(ed): Bringing culture and community to online language learning
Last year, Dr. Mark Turin and other faculty members from the UBC Himalaya Program received an Open Education Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation Grant for their proposal: Nepali and Tibetan Language in a Community Context. The resulting project created two OER courses, developed by UBC Himalaya Program and Asian Studies language instructors Binod Shrestha (Nepali) and […]
