Creating Interactive OER textbooks for First-year Chinese Credit Courses

By Will Engle on April 17, 2025

Project TitleCreating Interactive OER textbooks for First-year Chinese Credit Courses
Principal InvestigatorQian Wang
Co-Applicants-Hsiang-ning Wang, Associate Professor of Teaching, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts,
-Pihua Lin, Lecturer, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Li Yang, Lecturer, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Lijung Lee, Lecturer, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Hongyang Tao, Sessional Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Shuyu Li, Sessional Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Wenhui Chen, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Tinghsuan Chang, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Yuchun Peng, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Yi Chen, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Chiayin Yu, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Shu-ting Hsu, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
-Shu-Ching Huang, Visiting Instructor, Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
FacultyArts
Funding Year2025
Project SummaryWe aim to develop a set of two open textbooks for beginning Chinese, i.e., CHIN131 and CHIN133, with three majors goals:
1. to increase affordability for students,
2. to adjust content based on the Canadian context, and
3. to provide a better alignment between learning and UBC’s strategic plans.

The textbooks will include a total of 12 lessons and each with the reading and assessment materials. The reading materials will be developed on the Pressbooks platform with interactive components, e.g., video/audios and interactive comprehension questions. The assessment materials will include formative tasks developed through h5p and summative tasks in Canvas. Feedback and evaluation will be collected from students, TAs and instructors, and users outside the program, through surveys, focus group discussions, etc..

Textbooks will be shared with an open license so that colleagues outside UBC, especially from smaller Chinese programs in BC to support the teaching of Chinese.
Grant type OER Affordability Grant
Funded Amount $ 24,922

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