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2018 Open Education Week Events
By Rie Namba on February 16, 2018
Open Education Week, March 5-9, 2018, 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 diverse events highlighting areas of open teaching and learning. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, […] Read More...
Open Dialogues: How to engage and support students in open pedagogies
By Wendy Chan on January 29, 2018
For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact, that can live beyond the classroom walls. “A big part of my pedagogy is getting students to think outside the limitations of the university,” explains Gaertner, an instructor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies. Rather […] Read More...
Open UBC Snapshot: Use of Open Resources Continues to Increase
By Will Engle on January 9, 2018
In 2017, the adoption and use of open resources at UBC continued to increase. Since 2011, more than 47,000 UBC students have enrolled in courses in which instructors used open or freely accessible resources instead of traditional textbooks. At least $4.7 to $6.7 million dollars have been saved by UBC students in these courses and […] Read More...
Open Dialogues: How to use open tools and resources for problem sets
By Emi Sasagawa on November 30, 2017
For a long time engineering instructors have had homework problems for students in UBC’s Learning Management System (LMS). That is, until recently, when they found that students preferred the WeBWorK problems they were getting in their math courses. Agnes d’Entremont, an instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Jonathan Verrett, an instructor in […] Read More...
Exploring tension and risk in open scholarship
By Emi Sasagawa on November 20, 2017
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field.” – Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice UBC, in partnership […] Read More...
World Soil Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – December 5, 2017
By Rie Namba on November 16, 2017
To celebrate World Soil Day on December 5th, UBC will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on adding more content to Wikipedia about soils and soil science. Editing Wikipedia is a way for faculty, students and staff to engage in open collaboration, and contribute to public knowledge. Read More...
Open Scholarship in Practice seminar explores inclusive intersections between research and pedagogy
By Zachary Foote and Leonora Crema on October 23, 2017
UBC faculty and students gathered at the Open Scholarship in Practice seminar, held in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Lillooet Room on September 29, to learn more about nascent technologies and innovative teaching approaches that encourage open scholarship. Advocates of open scholarship spent the day engaging the audience about what works – and what […] Read More...
Canvas Commons: Open Resource Sharing Made Easy – December 11, 2017
By Rie Namba on October 18, 2017
Canvas Commons is UBC’s new learning object repository that enables instructors to find, import, and share resources with UBC and the public. A worldwide library full of open educational content, the Canvas Commons allow UBC users to discover and find a broad range of subject specific resources from course design elements to problems sets. Join […] Read More...
Tension and Risk in Open Scholarship: A Conversation: October 26, 2017
By Rie Namba on September 28, 2017
We use “open” as though it is free of ideology, ignoring how much “openness,” particularly as it’s used by technologists, is closely intertwined with “meritocracy” — this notion, a false one, that “open” wipes away inequalities, institutions, biases, history, that “open” “levels the playing field.” -Audrey Waters, From Open to Justice Spurred by the need […] Read More...
Small TLEF call for proposals open; 2018 Priority Focus on OER
By Heather McCabe on September 13, 2017
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic is inviting proposals from faculty, staff and students for Small TLEF Project Grants (under $50,000). One of the priority focus areas for 2018 is the development or integration of open educational resources that are intended to be used in a course, multiple courses within a program, or across […] Read More...