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Open Education Week Schedule
By Amanda Grey on February 21, 2020
As we head closer towards Open Education Week (Mar 2-6), here’s what UBC has planned. Also be sure to check out Open Education Week events that are happening all over the world! Monday, March 2nd #HonouringIndigenousWriters Wikipedia Edit-a Thon Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm Location: Sty-Wet-Tan Hall in the First Nations Longhouse Register: https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/vancouver/HIW Wikipedia […]Read More...>
Chatting with Champions Interview Series – Ben Cheung
By Amanda Grey on February 14, 2020
Welcome back for another mini interview with one of the 2019 AMS OER Champions to hear more about their project(s), why Open is important to them, some of the challenges they faced along the way, and what advice they have to offer. This week, we heard from Ben Cheung, Lecturer and Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator in […]Read More...>
Introducing the Open Education LibGuide
By Amanda Grey on February 7, 2020
Recently, UBC Library launched the new Open Education LibGuide, a guide for faculty and staff at UBC on how to find, create, and share Open Education Resources (OER), as well as providing information about various Open Communities and further reading. Home The home page provides some key definitions as well as directing readers towards the […]Read More...>
Fair Dealing Week Event: Creativity in the arts: The role of copyright
By ssavage on February 5, 2020
Creativity in the Arts: The Role of Copyright Date Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 1:00pm to 4:15pm Location British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Downtown Campus, Atrium Room, 8th floor (Room 825) Full Details and Registration (please register by Feb. 18) On Tuesday February 25, to mark Fair Dealing Week, SFU, UBC, Langara, KPU, […]Read More...>
Chatting with Champions Interview Series – Roland Stull
By Amanda Grey on January 31, 2020
Welcome back for another mini interview with one of the 2019 AMS OER Champions to hear more about their project(s), why Open is important to them, some of the challenges they faced along the way, and what advice they have to offer. This week, we heard from Roland Stull, Director of the Geophysical Disaster Computational […]Read More...>
Chatting with Champions Interview Series – Erin Fields
By Amanda Grey on January 17, 2020
Welcome to the first in a new series of blog posts! Every few weeks we are going to highlight one of the 2019 AMS OER Champions by conducting a mini interview with them to hear more about their project(s), why Open is important to them, some of the challenges they faced along the way, and […]Read More...>
Rez Dogs and Open Access: A collection of resources from Jessie Loyer’s Decolonizing Open Access Keynote
By Alexandra Alisauskas on November 22, 2019
Jessie Loyer–a liaison librarian at Mount Royal University who is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation–began her keynote talk for “Can we Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event” on October 22, 2019 by saying that if want to think about what it means to decolonize open access, we can look at the […]Read More...>
Open Scholarship in Practice 2019
By Amanda Grey on November 12, 2019
On October 25th, UBC hosted the 3rd annual Open Scholarship in Practice (OSiP) day. OSiP consists of a variety of workshops for faculty, staff, and students to attend and learn how to incorporate Open practices into their work. The day started with some opening remarks by Jason Pither (Associate Professor, Biology/Braes Institute at UBCO) and […]Read More...>
AMS Open Champions Celebration
By Amanda Grey on October 28, 2019
On October 22, 2019, the Alma Mater Society (AMS) and other UBC sponsors hosted an event to honour the faculty, staff, and administrators who are OER Champions for UBC: the people who advocate, propagate, and support the use of Open Education Resources in their classrooms, at UBC, and in the academic world. These champions were […]Read More...>
2019 OER Faculty Panel Roundup
By Alexandra Alisauskas on October 24, 2019
On October 1, 2019, UBC hosted an Open Education Resources (OER) Faculty Panel where faculty talking about past and current OER projects, the difficulties and challenges they faced, and the success and impact they achieved. Previous discussions and advocacy around Open Educational Resources (OERs) (such as the AMS Textbook Broke Campaign) have highlighted the […]Read More...>