Updates

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of this year’s 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 were selected based on […]

UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible by supporting the integration of open educational resources (OER) into credit courses. This year, over $220,000 in OER Affordability Grants were awarded to support 10 projects across six Faculties, with the goal of lowering the cost of learning materials and improving access for UBC students. […]

Join us for Open Education Week 2026!

Note: Nominations are now closed. The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the annual Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Champions Award and the Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Award. UBC students and community members are invited to submit nominations recognizing faculty, staff, and administrators who demonstrate a […]

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.

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 […]

The following is an excerpted article from the CTLT Edubytes newsletter about open educational practices and open pedagogy, along with tools faculty can use to make teaching and learning more accessible and affordable for students. Open education is an umbrella term that includes both the creation and use of open educational resources (OER), which are […]

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.

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 […]

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… […]