Examples: Education

The goal of the Digital Tattoo project is to raise questions, provide examples and links to resources to encourage you to think about your presence online, navigate the issues involved in forming and re-forming your digital identity and learn about your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen. It’s original content is published under the Creative Commons-Attribution 3.0 license to allow for sharing and re-publishing

The DIY Media Learning Community is a collection of UBC people (designers, media specialists, instructors, students, and other DIYers) who want to help others create DIY media. Do it yourself (DIY) is a term that describes a method of creating, modifying, or repairing something without the aid of experts or professionals. The DIY Media Learning Community supports the DIY Media resource site.

The eNunciate site is an openly licensed resource that developed that was born out of the collaboration of the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Asian Studies, so that the former could apply the ultrasound technology to test biovisual feedback (Gick, et al. 2008) in the context of the second language learning, and the latter could provide students with video materials to help them to improve their pronunciation outside the class.

The site includes: instructional videos, phonetics videos, an interactive IPA chart, and instructional resources for Japanese and English pronunciation. These resources were co-created by students. The eNunciate site resource is open and licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

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This student-driven project was a  collaboration between the Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies department  with the UBC Library to digitize 700 Greek Epigraphic Squeezes and develop the descriptive content necessary to deliver comprehensive online collections. “Since the spring of 2013, a dedicated group of graduate and undergraduate students have been working tirelessly to create open access digital repositories for these collections in order for scholars, professors, and the general public alike to enjoy these incredible artifacts that span nearly three thousand years of human history. “

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The Math Exam Resources wiki is a community project started in March 2012 by graduate students at the UBC Math Department and it features hints and worked out solutions to past math exams. The goal of the project is to provide an open and free educational resource to undergraduate students taking math courses, with a strong emphasis for first and second year courses. The provided solutions do not simply provide what the answer is, but instead focus on the processes that it takes to solve the problem.

Neuroanatomy at UBC is a website that includes photographs, diagrams, illustrations, MRI scans, and 3D reconstructions of functionally important parts of the human brain. The website is maintained by Dr. Claudia Krebs, a senior instructor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at UBC. All original content on the Neuroanatomy at UBC website is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 license.

Open e-Portfolio projects have been developed in different teaching and learning contexts across UBC. These open e-Portfolios provide a space for the collection of learning artifacts, as well as for reflection on learning goals and experiences. They place an emphasis on student ownership, creativity and flexibility in the development and support of these spaces. e-Portfolios are owned by students and can be shared publically or maintained privately depending on student goals.

Phylo is a project that began as a reaction to the following nugget of information: Kids know more about Pokemon creatures than they do about real creatures. We think there’s something wrong with that. Apparently, so do many others. Phylo is a card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex, and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity; and an exercise in crowd sourcing, open access, and open game development.

Online resources for undergraduate students studying integral calculus, specifically on infinite sequences and series. Content on the ISM website and all of its subdomains are under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

The UBC EDU Channel on YouTube features videos from open courses, departments, events and faculties across the university. Highlights include open educational resources included faculty lectures, campus events and the latest news from UBC. All UBC faculty/staff can request the ability to upload to UBC’s YouTube EDU account.