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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...
BCcampus Pressbooks Editing Function Down
By Erin Fields on May 28, 2025
Books on opentextbc.ca and pressbooks.bccampus.ca are available for viewing and downloading only. Authors are not currently able to make changes to their books. BCcampus’s IT team is completing necessary upgrades to the Pressbooks networks to improve security and prevent similar future outages. The hope is to restore edit access for all Pressbooks authors within the next two weeks (June […] 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...
Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) 2025
By Rie Namba on March 12, 2025
Registration for Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) is now open! Read More...
Trans* Journeys: Centering Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy and Open Publishing
By Leila on March 5, 2025
In Fall 2024, Dr. Isabel Machado’s Introduction to Trans Studies (CSIS 301) students developed illustrated essays analyzing trans memoirs and autobiographies, culminating in the openly published collection, Trans* Journeys: Illustrated Essays of Trans Persons Autobiographies. The assignment encouraged students to engage with trans autobiographical writing traditions, apply careful citation practices, consider accessibility in their work, […] Read More...
Open Education at UBCO: March 7 In-Person Events
By Leila on February 25, 2025
Come by the UBC Okanagan Library on March 7th for Open Education Week! A series of in-person events will explore the impact of open education on teaching, learning, and accessibility. Whether you’re an instructor, student, or curious about how open educational resources (OER) can make education more affordable and equitable, there’s something for everyone. Don’t […] Read More...