British Columbia
24 University of British Columbia – Okanagan (UBCO)
SUPPORT
Contacts
For assistance, please contact:
- Donna Langille, Open Education Librarian
Email: donna.langille@ubc.ca
Phone: 250 807-9233
OR
- Michelle Lamberson, Director, Flexible Learning Special Projects
Email: michelle.lamberson@ubc.ca
Phone: 250-807-9029
OR
- Centre for Teaching and Learning
Email: ctl.helpdesk@ubc.ca
Bookstores
For help providing open educational resources to students in the classroom, please contact:
Website
Tenure and promotion
Tenure, Promotion & Reappointment for Faculty Members:
- See pages 16, 19, and 48: Contributions to the practice and theory of teaching and learning literature, including publications in peer-reviewed and professional journals, conference publications, book chapters, textbooks and open education repositories / resources.
- University of British Columbia: Recognizing open in promotion and tenure – July 8, 2018 (Educause Review)
USING OER
Open textbooks adoptions at UBC
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Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching and Learning – May 10, 2021
- Open UBC Snapshot: Significant commitments to open resources – March 9, 2020
- Open UBC Snapshot: Significant use and support for open resources – January 3, 2019
- Open UBC Snapshot: Use of open resources continues to increase – January 9, 2018
- UBC open textbook adoption snapshot – July 18, 2017
- Open UBC Snapshots: Textbook displacements by open resources – December 10, 2016
Digital assessment tools
No student shall be required to purchase access to a fee-based Digital Assessment Tool, including those sold as a Bundled Resource, for any UBC Okanagan course.
- Read the Digital Assessment Tools Senate Policy.
UBC repositories
- Open textbook catalogue: Open texts created by faculty and students at the University of British Columbia in support of open educational practices on campus.
- cIRcle is an open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and its partners. Its aim is to showcase and preserve UBC’s unique intellectual output by making content freely available to anyone, anywhere via the web.
- Open UBC is a curated collection of resources for faculty and students to learn about the why, what and how of open education practices and what they mean to teaching and learning at UBC. It will evolve as our practices evolve on our campuses and beyond
Canadian repositories
UBC Libraries
Open scholarship
- Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE): A new one-year flexible and blended program jointly presented by the UBC Open Working Group, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and UBC Library. The program will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education and Open Research.
OER from UBCO
Open textbooks – new
- Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics by Claire Yu Yan
- Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, Second Edition contributing authors Stuart MacKinnon (editor), Fes de Scally, Craig Nichol, Ian Saunders
Open textbooks – adapted
- Introduction to Psychology: Moving Toward Diversity and Inclusion by co-author Tareq Yousef
- Physical Geology – H5P Edition by Karla Panchuk
Support resources
- Rebus Community Reports: Insights from OER Project Leads by Donna Lagille (UBC-O)
Presentation/learning resources
On-campus OE Sustainability
CREATING OER
Grants and projects
Other grants
REVIEWING OER
Open textbooks reviewed by UBCO faculty
OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION
Working group
- For information about this working group and how to join, contact Donna Langille, Community Engagement Librarian at donna.langille@ubc.ca
Blogs and news
- BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Anita Chaudhuri and Rishma Chooniedass – March 18, 2024 (BCcampus News)
- BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Claire Yu Yan – December 5, 2023 (BCcampus News)
- BCcampus’ 2020 Open Education Foundation Grant for Institutions – July 23, 2020 (UBC Okanagan Library)
- Announcing BCcampus’ 2020 Open Education Grant Recipients: Laying Foundations and Sustaining Futures – June 25, 2020 (BCcampus)
- Collaboration in the Interior opens new doors – April 28, 2020 (BCcampus News)
Research and presentations
- Developing Strategic Learning – Peter Nolan (September 24, 2019)
- Strategic Learning: Scholarly Engagement – Peter Nolan (November 5, 2019)
BEYOND UBC-O
BCOEL Membership
- Donna Langille