Remy Corbet
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, […]
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
Adaptation and Deployment of OER for Teaching Advanced Epidemiological Methods to Health Researchers and Trainees
Principal Investigator: Mohammad Ehsanul Karim
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $24,931
Holocausts and the Rise of Antisemitism: OER for course use and beyond
Principal Investigator: Bozena Karwowska
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $23,872
Adapting, Consolidating, and Synthesizing Engineering Communication Resources to Promote Socio- Constructivist Design Processes
Principal Investigator: Pamela Wolf
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $25,000
Creation of interactive programming-based problem bank for introductory thermodynamics
Principal Investigator: Casey Keulen
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $24,974
Creation of OER for Engineering Economics
Principal Investigator: Tamara Etmannski
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount:
$ 24,909
Developing programming-based tutorials to enable the exploration of real-world applications of signals and systems in engineering courses
Principal Investigator: Olivia Di Matteo
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $ 11,648
Developing a Student-Authored Conceptual Multiple-Choice Question Bank on the H5P Platform
Principal Investigator: S. Alireza Bagherzadeh
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2023
Grant Stream: OER Implementation
Funding Amount: $8,152
Creating Accessible OER Workshop Series
Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Join us for a series of workshops about how to design or adapt OER so they are more accessible for all learners. We’ll explore different content types, formats, and examine how layout/format choices affect […]
Research Data Management in the Canadian Context: A Guide for Practitioners and Learners
Principal Investigator: Eugene Barsky
Faculty: UBC Library
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Integrating all course resources for PHYS 131
Principal Investigator: Erfan Rezaie
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $2,000
Adding closed captions to video lessons on teaching Hindi Grammar
Principal Investigator: Sunil Kumar Bhatt
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,990
Criminal Law: Canadian Law, Indigenous Laws & Critical Perspectives – OER Casebook for LAW 221
Principal Investigator: Benjamin Perrin
Faculty: LAW
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,904
OER Grants for Affordable Course Materials – Deadline Jan. 19, 20
The affordability of textbooks and other learning materials can represent a barrier to learning. According to the recently published 2022 AMS Academic Experience Survey, the average amount UBC undergraduate students spent annually on textbooks this past academic year increased from $893 (2021) to $1,253. The survey also found that 70% of undergraduates did not buy […]
Call for Proposals for Open Educational Resource Grants (Deadline Extended)
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver is pleased to invite the UBC Vancouver community to apply for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation and Implementation Grants. The OER Fund aims to support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials through the use of OER in UBCV credit courses. Since 2019, […]
2022 OER Fund Evaluation Snapshot
In 2019, UBCV initially committed $1 million over four years to the UBCV OER Fund. As of spring 2022, the Fund has provided $650,076 in OER grant funding for 61 projects across 11 different faculties. To determine whether the goals of the OER Fund are being met, an evaluation was conducted to collect evidence of OER impacts on students and on the teaching practices of faculty…
OER Project Evaluation Workshop – Sept 22
Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Have you considered how you will evaluate if your OER project goals have been met? Join us for an OER Evaluation Workshop facilitated by members of CTLT’s Research and Evaluation Team on September 22 […]
H5P: supporting knowledge assessment through interactivity
Technology in the classroom has often been used to present knowledge in many different ways. From videos to slide decks to learning management systems, it has expanded how we interact with the content of a course, albeit typically in a somewhat passive way. This landscape is evolving thanks in part to H5P (an abbreviation for “HTML5 Package”), a technology that helps instructors make their courses more interactive, and helps students improve how they learn.
Speaking Atlas of French Varieties in Canada
Principal Investigator: Marie-Eve Bouchard
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
APSC160 Open-Source Hardware/Software Laboratory Re-fit
Principal Investigator: Cristian Grecu
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $16,812
