USING OER

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

• UBC OER Collection:
• 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• cIRcle is an open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and its partners.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

• B.C. Open Collection
• Open Library (Ontario)

UBC Libraries

• Open education

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.

CREATING OER

Support resources

• Scholarly Communication: Open Education
• Digital Tattoo
• DIY Media Guides
• dstudio
• Chapman Learning Commons

Grants and projects

• UBCV OER Fund
• OER Implementation Grants
• OER Rapid Innovation Grants

Other grants

• SoTL Dissemination Fund
•  Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund

REVIEWING OER

• Apply to review an open textbook

OPEN EDUCATION IN ACTION

Student society (AMS)

• Textbook Broke campaign
  • Photos
• An Open Letter to UBC – September 8, 2020 (Open UBC)
• AMS advocates for open educational resources in Textbook Broke campaign – October 17, 2019 (The Ubyssey)
• News: UBC students cheer BC Government move to reduce textbook costs – April 23, 2019
• AMS Textbook Broke campaign urges university, professors to expand access to affordable learning materials – Sept 17, 2018 (The Ubyssey)

Working group

• UBC Open Working Group

Presentations and podcasts

• 2019 Open educational resources panel – October 11, 2019
• Intersections of open pedagogy and critical information literacy – A case study – November 27, 2018 (BCcampus)
• d’Entremont, A. (2018). Student preference between single-box and multi-box homework problem answers using WeBWorK, an online homework system. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference. June 3-6, 2018, Vancouver, BC. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13101
• Fields, E. (2018). Intersections of open pedagogy and critical information literacy: A case study. BCcampus.
• Lee, J.S., Verrett J. (2018). WeBWorK as an open online homework system in a second-year material and energy balances course. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference. June 3-6, 2018, Vancouver, BC. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13047
• Podcast: Beyond Pedagogies – Open access and open education resources – October 20, 2017 (Frequencies)

Research

• Fields, E., & Harper, A. (2020). Opening up information literacy: Empowering students through open pedagogy. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Innovative Pedagogy, 2. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/sotl_ip/vol2/iss1/1/#.X1vAGswPk9k
• Hendricks, C. (2015). Teaching and learning philosophy in the open. American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Studies in Pedagogy, 1, 17-32. doi: 10.5840/aaptstudies20159162
• Hendricks, C., Reinsberg, S.A., Rieger, G.W. (2017). The adoption of an open textbook in a large Physics course: An analysis of cost, outcomes, use and perceptions. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4). doi: 10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006
• Jhangiani, R. S., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring the use of open educational resources at BC post-secondary institutions. Victoria, BC: BCcampus.

Awards

• Asia Forest Research Centre, Faculty of Forestry won the Open Innovation award from OE Global for the Innovative Sustainable Forest Management Education Online Course (October 2022).
  
• BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: UBC H5P Symposium Organizing Committee (November 30, 2022)

Blogs and news

• BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Jon Beasley-Murray – May 27, 2024 (BCcampus News)
• Quality Through Collaboration: Open Problems and Images for Physics – April 6, 2022 (BCcampus News)
• Open educational resources in STEM – October 28, 2021 (UBC-CTLT News)
• BCcampus Award for Excellence in Open Education: Agnes d’Entremont – September 29, 2021 (BCcampus News)

• Some things I’m learning about accessibility & open textbooks – January 11, 2020
• Open, equitable, affordable, and transparent: Progress on the road to true open access: A talk by Ginny Steel – September 18, 2019
• AMS Calls for nominations for OER champions – September 8, 2019
• New Open UBC site – August 26, 2019
• Senate endorses guiding principles for online assessment materials – August 8, 2019 (The Ubyssey)
• UBC Senate endorses principles for digital learning materials used for assessment – May 24, 2019 (Open UBC, Christina Hendricks)
• How do I teach in the open? – (Open UBC)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Erin Fields – March 28, 2019 (BCcampus)
• 2018 UBC Teaching Practices Survey: Open Focus Report – December 6, 2018 (Open UBC, Will Engle)
• New partnership enhances study of computational economics at UBC – December 6, 2018 (UBC Vancouver School of Economics, News)
• Award for Excellence in OpenEd – Cindy Underhill – November 30, 2018 (BCcampus)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education: Maja Krzic – September 27, 2018 (BCcampus)
• University of British Columbia: Recognizing open in promotion and tenure – July 8, 2018 (Educause Review)
• Award for Excellence in Open Education – Christina Hendricks – February 19, 2018 (BCcampus)
• Exploring tension and risk in open scholarship – November 20, 2017 (Open UBC)
• Open Education Stories: Creating and reusing problems using OER – November 1, 2017 (BCcampus)
• Open education ethics: A conversation worth having – 2017 (UBC blog website)
• Open learning design: A (draft) manifesto – May 22, 2015 (Infology)

Open Dialogues video series

• Embedding empathy into open learning (January 7, 2019)
• Extending learning beyond classroom walls (July 24, 2018)
• Using wiki pages to advance student-created knowledge (April 9, 2018)
• How to engage and support students in open pedagogies (January 29, 2018)
• How to use open tools and resources for problem sets (November 30, 2017)
• How to make open content accessible (July 28, 2017)
• How to do open courses (May 30, 2017)
• How to use social pedagogies and the web as an educator (April 4, 2017)
• How to engage with a new generation of learners (November 8, 2016)
• How to rethink textbooks (November 3, 2016)
• How to make education more accessible (June 30, 2016)
• How to engage the general public (April 1, 2016)
• How to practice responsible pedagogy (March 18, 2016)
• How to make teaching more student-centered (March 17, 2016)
• Conference addresses the past, present and future of open education (December 22, 2015)

BEYOND UBC