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OER Excellence and Impact Award Call for Nominations

By Wil Engle on October 31, 2023

The OER Excellence and Impact Awards consists of one individual and one team-based award of $5,000 per campus. Any member of the UBC community can nominate an individual faculty member or group for the award and self-nominations are welcome. Read More...

Call for Survey Participants – Canadian Indigenous Perspectives on OER

By Erin Fields on October 5, 2023

This research seeks to identify workflows, practices, and unique barriers involved in developing Canadian Indigenous OER.    Read More...
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Call for Proposals for OER Grants

By Wil Engle on September 25, 2023

Faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver are invited to submit proposals for grants that support the use of open educational resources (OER) in UBC credit courses. OER are teaching and learning materials that are openly licensed to permit free access as well as adaptation and sharing. Since 2019, UBC has provided over $825,000 in OER […] Read More...

Open Access Week 2023

By Leila Malkin on September 18, 2023

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...

2023 OER Fund Fall Consulting Clinics and Studios

By Wil Engle on September 18, 2023

Are interested in developing an OER Fund grant proposal and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? This fall, the CTLT will host a number of consulting clinics to provide more information about the OER Fund: Proposal Development Consultations The CTLT is offering weekly online drop-in sessions for applicants who are planning […] Read More...
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What is Open Scholarship?

By Wil Engle on July 19, 2023

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. Read More...
Title image of the panel which states the following: Open UBC: Representing Open Education Work in Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotions Processes. July 12, 2023. Christina Hendricks,Elisa Baniassad, Amanda Coolidge, Agnes d’Entremount, Jonathan Ichikawa, Maja Krzic, Georg Rieger,

Roundtable on Representing Open Education in Tenure & Promotion Processes

By Wil Engle on July 13, 2023

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. Read More...
Open Scholarship in Practice: Join us November 2-6 for a week of workshops and webinars thatwill transform the way you create and share your research.

UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report – 2022/2023

By Leila Malkin on July 5, 2023

A highlight of UBC Library's combined impact on open educational practices at UBC for 2022/2023. Read More...
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Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science

By Wil Engle on June 21, 2023

In this recorded talk, Dr. Ben Motz, an assistant professor at Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, ties different themes of open scholarship together. Read More...

2023 Summer OER Accessibility Clinics

By Wil Engle on May 23, 2023

Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an online OER Accessibility clinic to chat with specialists about how to design or adapt […] Read More...