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2026 UBC H5P Symposium – Call for Presenters
By Will Engle on November 3, 2025
Are you using H5P in a pedagogically impactful or creative way? The 2026 UBCV H5P Symposium is inviting instructors, students, instructional designers, and other members of the higher education community to submit proposals to showcase innovative uses of H5P and their impact on teaching and learning. The theme of the Symposium is “Designing the Future […] Read More...
Call for 2026 OER Excellence and Impact Awards
By Will Engle on October 27, 2025
Nominations for the 2026 OER Excellence and Impact Awards are now open.There are four awards of $5,000 each - one individual and one group award at both UBCO and UBCV. Read More...
Open Access Week 2025
By Leila Malkin on October 8, 2025
Join UBC Vancouver Library, UBC Okanagan Library, the CTLT Vancouver, and the CTL Okanagan for sessions on various topics related to open access to research & education. Read More...
2026 Call for UBCV OER Grant Proposals
By Will Engle on September 25, 2025
Faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for grants that support the use of open educational resources (OER) in UBC Vancouver credit courses. OER are freely accessible educational materials that permit open use, modification, and adaptation. OER Affordability Grants Grants of up to $25,000 are available for UBC Vancouver faculty who wish to address […] Read More...
UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report 2024-2025
By Erin Fields on July 2, 2025
UBC Library’s Open Education services seek to support the UBC community in finding, adapting, and creating high-quality open educational resources, as well as planning and implementing innovative Open Education projects and Open Practices. UBC Library’s Open Education services play an active role in moving forward UBC Vancouver Library’s Strategic Framework vision of, …leading and collaborating to advance open scholarship… […] Read More...
Defining and Recognizing Excellence in OER
By Will Engle on May 23, 2025
Last year the offices of the Vice-President Academic at both UBC Okanagan and UBC Vancouver launched the UBC Open Education Resources Excellence and Impact Awards to recognize outstanding work by faculty who have materially advanced the use and impact of OER at UBC. Read More...
Open Access Article Publishing at UBC: Annual Report
By Erin Fields on May 15, 2025
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office has released the 2023/24 Open Access Article Publishing at UBC Report. This report provides an overview of yearly open access (OA) article publishing trends at UBC and seeks to increase transparency around financial conditions for OA article publishing, and to highlight the impact of publisher negotiations on OA at […] Read More...
OER in Focus – Open textbooks and curriculum development
By Remy Corbet on April 2, 2025
Open Educational Resources (OER) revolutionize higher education by democratizing learning materials for students and instructors alike. OER at UBC embody this vision and transform the way knowledge is shared, making it more dynamic, accessible, and easily adjustable across many disciplines. One of the most significant barriers to knowledge acquisition in higher education is the high […] Read More...
2025 UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Recipients Announced
By Will Engle on April 2, 2025
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of the 2025 UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Recipients […] Read More...
AMS Announces Call for 2025 Nominations for UDL and OER Champions
By Erin Fields on March 21, 2025
AMS Announces Call for 2025 Nominations for OER Champions and the NEW UDL Champions! The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is excited to introduce the new Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Champions Award, in addition to the annual Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Award. The nomination form is now available for UBC students and community […] Read More...