Updates

The UBC Library has created an Open Text Publishing Guide to help authors navigate the process of creating a text.

Technology in the classroom has often been used to present knowledge in many different ways. From videos to slide decks to learning management systems, it has expanded how we interact with the content of a course, albeit typically in a somewhat passive way. This landscape is evolving thanks in part to H5P (an abbreviation for […]

The Belkin, UBC Art History Students Association, UBC Visual Arts Students Association, and Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory invites participants of all genders and expressions to join us and help balance representational imbalances at this year’s Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon taking place from 11 am to 2 pm on Thursday, 24 March 2022. Each spring, […]

An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.

Kicking off Open Education Week at UBC, the Alma Mater Society, Student’s Union UBC Okanagan and Open UBC invite UBC faculty, staff, and students to contribute open educational resources (OER) to the newly launched UBC OER Collection as part of a multi-campus challenge, starting March 7.

When students complete practice questions requiring them to actively recall information from memory (i.e., retrieval practice), they significantly outperform their peers who spend the same amount of time re-reading the same information. Several traditional publishers have developed online homework systems to offer students retrieval practice; however, these systems are only available behind a paywall and […]

Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.

Missed Open Scholarship in Practice? Catch-up with video recordings of the sessions.

We are excited to announce that the next session of POSE will run again from January to April 2022. Please register to join us!

Open resources can be an important tool for reducing student textbook costs. Dr. Agnes d’Entremont from UBC Mechanical Engineering explains why it’s harder to develop or adapt them for STEM — and the opportunities if we do.