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Announcing the 2025 OER Affordability Grant Recipients
UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible by supporting the integration of open educational resources (OER) into credit courses. This year, eight projects have been awarded OER Affordability Grants through the OER Fund to reduce the cost of learning materials and enhance access for students. Funded initiatives span a range of activities, […]
The Building Resources and Accessibility in Neurology (BRAIN) Guide
Principal Investigator: Larry Leung
Faculty:Pharmaceutical Sciences
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $19,725
Creation of a comprehensive open source textbook on hydrometallurgy for engineering students
Principal Investigator: Amir M. Dehkhoda
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $23,360
An Introduction to Nepali: An Open Access Textbook for Beginning Learners
Principal Investigator: Mark Turin
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,954
Diverse Data Repository for Data Science Education
Principal Investigator: Katie Burak
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,976
The Regression Cookbook: A Structured Data Science-based Approach to a Comprehensive Regression Analysis Toolbox
Principal Investigator: Gilberto Alexi Rodríguez Arelis
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,948
Expanding Open Patho by addressing vetted feedback
Principal Investigator: Gang Wang
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,994
Creating Interactive OER textbooks for First-year Chinese Credit Courses
Principal Investigator: Qian Wang
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,922
Adapting and Implementing an OER Textbook in BIOL200
Principal Investigator: Vivienne Lam
Faculty: AMS
Funding Year: 2025
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $22,375
OER in Focus – Open textbooks and curriculum development
Open Educational Resources (OER) revolutionize higher education by democratizing learning materials for students and instructors alike. OER at UBC embody this vision and transform the way knowledge is shared, making it more dynamic, accessible, and easily adjustable across many disciplines. One of the most significant barriers to knowledge acquisition in higher education is the high […]
2025 OER Project Posters
The OER Project Showcase is unique opportunity to learn about projects funded by the OER Fund and the impact of those projects on student learning at UBC Vancouver. Browse the links below to view posters about current and past OER Fund Projects. Poster Title Project Leads / Presenter(s) Subject/Dept. Speaking and Writing Physics 101: The Language […]
OER in Focus – Bringing an Innovative Approach to Course Design
Bringing an innovative approach to course design Designing a course in a traditional way can be a challenging experience, where instructors work on their own programs relying on hard-copy textbooks that students have to purchase. This approach can be limiting to instructors – especially from a collaboration standpoint. Thanks to the innovation brought by OER, […]
CSIS 450 Archiving the Repertoire: Students Engaging in Open Pedagogy Using Pressbooks
Principal Investigator: Isabel Machado
Faculty: AMS
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,982
AMS Asynchronous Materials Library
Principal Investigator: Anshul Kulkarni
Faculty: AMS
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,885
Engineering Economics – Practice Problems (and Solutions) for Students
Principal Investigator: Tamara Etmannski
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
UBC Entrepreneurship Primer Interactive Tutorial
Principal Investigator: Angele Beausoleil
Faculty: Sauder
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
AnthroChronicles: An Open and Collaborative Resource for the History of Anthropology
Principal Investigator: Amirpouyan Shiva
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Collective Bibliography Beyond the Classroom: An OER Wiki Project
Principal Investigator: Lorenia Salgado-Leos
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,995
Creation of a common urologic educational resource for the Dept of Urologic Sciences
Principal Investigator: Christopher Nguan
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Interactive Practice-Questions for Students Learning Sanskrit
Principal Investigator: Janet Um
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,993
OER Fund General Info Session – October 21, 2024
Do you have an idea for an open education resource project? Are you thinking about applying for an OER Fund grant? Join us for an online UBCV OER Fund general information session on October 21st at 12:30pm. In this session, you will receive information about how the OER Fund can support your OER project and […]
Call for Proposals for OER Grants
Faculty and staff in Vancouver 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. Since 2019, over $991,000 in OER grant funding has been awarded to 96 projects across 12 […]
UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Nominations Now Open
The offices of the Associate Provost, Academic Operations and Services, UBC Okanagan and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver, are pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. These awards are open to faculty members at both campuses. The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work done […]
OER Project Evaluation Workshop – August 8
Evaluation activities are important to think about throughout the life of an OER project as they allow grant holders project teams to monitor and refine the development of the project. Evaluation also allows reporting on the project impact, which will help project teams to engage others in better understanding the potential of the project for […]
Upgrading existing educational video lectures for ASIA 353- Introduction to Hindi Film
Principal Investigator: Sunil Kumar Bhatt
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
H5P Symposium 2024
Principal Investigator: Kayli Johnson
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,400
Custom open textbook for Math 100
Principal Investigator: Elyse Yeager
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $19,469
Social-Justice-Oriented Introductory Lecture Videos for GMST 121: Fairy Tales & Popular Culture
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Nijdam
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $25,000
Rxpid Resources: A Pharmacy Resource Consolidation Project
Principal Investigator: Jason Min
Faculty: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $25,000
Creating and Sharing Open Videos to Support Learning Oxidative Phosphorylation within the Biological Sciences
Principal Investigator: Lindsay Rogers
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,895
Developing an online interactive OER for data visualization
Principal Investigator: Joel Ostblom
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $25,000
Designing Future Urban Landscapes: Using open-source, multimodal and immersive methods, integrate critical and post-colonial perspectives in urban Geography education.
Principal Investigator: Siobhán Wittig McPhee
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2024
Grant Stream: OER Affordability
Funding Amount: $24,453
UBC OER Excellence and Impact Award Recipients Announced
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, at UBC Vancouver recently announced the recipients of the inaugural UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards. These awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Recipients, which included several OER […]
2024 OER Project Posters
The OER Project Virtual Showacase, which was held on March 7, was a unique opportunity to learn about projects funded by the OER Fnd and the impact of those projects on student learning at UBC Vancouver. Browse the links below to view posters about current and past OER Fund Projects. Poster Title Project Leads / Presenter(s) […]
Building Responsible Environmental Awareness Through Inhaler Education (B.R.E.A.T.H.E.)
Principal Investigator: Karen Dahri
Faculty: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Digitizing South Asian Nurses Stories
Principal Investigator: Lydia Wytenbroek
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Development of instructional visual and audio-visual resources
Principal Investigator: Pam Kalas
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,325
Open Access Teaching Dossier for “Different from the Others”
Principal Investigator: Ervin Malakaj
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,932
Culture & communication in digital worlds: A scholarly and learning resource
Principal Investigator: Leah Macfadyen
Faculty: Education
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Call for Proposals for Open Educational Resource Grants
Faculty and staff at UBCV are invited to submit proposals for grants of up to $25,000 to support the use of open educational resources (OER) in UBC credit courses. Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2024.
2023 OER Fund Fall Consulting Clinics
Are you interested in developing an OER Fund proposal and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? This fall, the CTLT will host a number of consulting clinics to provide more information about the OER Fund: Proposal Development Consultations The CTLT is offering weekly online drop-in sessions for applicants who are planning […]
Rxpid Resources
Principal Investigator: Jason Mins
Faculty: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Funding Year:
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Exploring Indigenous Knowledges and Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit
Principal Investigator: Erin Fields
Unit: UBC Library
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Subtitling Classical Chinese Poetry for Social Media
Principal Investigator: Christopher Rea
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year:
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Accessible life cycles of British Columbia seaweeds
Principal Investigator: Bridgette Clarkston
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,338
Educational Resources for Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust & Human Rights Education
Principal Investigator: Andrea Webb
Faculty: Education
Funding Year:
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,800
2023 Summer OER Accessibility Clinics Announced
Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an online OER Accessibility clinic to chat with specialists about how to design or adapt OER so they are accessible and open to all. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their projects.
Identifying Opportunities to Develop Open Sustainability Educational Resources Across Disciplines
Principal Investigator: Oliver Lane
Unit: VP Academic/UBC Sustainability Hub
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Developing a Python Version of DSCI100: Introduction to Data Science
Principal Investigator: Trevor Campbell
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $13,900
Building accessibility, critical thinking skills and competencies in pathology from both a creator and user perspective, supplemental material for Open Pathology text
Principal Investigator: Gang Wang
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $25,000
