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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) […]
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 […]
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
Interactive Instructional Materials as Multimodal OER for Intermediate Japanese Courses
Principal Investigator: Saori Hoshi
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,121
Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground (1860-1923): Japanese Primary Sources in Translation
Principal Investigator: Ayaka Yoshimizu
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,424
H5P Symposium
Principal Investigator: Kayli Johnson
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,340
Redesign OER for the Learning Commons Website
Principal Investigator: Alexandra Kuskowski
Faculty: UBC Library
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Integrating Rock the Boat in UBC Graduate Programs to Support Wellness, Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity in Supervisory Relationships
Principal Investigator: Susan Cox
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000
The Japanese Women Directors Project: Open Education Resources for Teaching and Public Access
Principal Investigator: Colleen Laird
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,160
Comm 293: Introduction to Financial Accounting
Principal Investigator: Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Faculty: Sauder
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000
Case-by-case: Developing an Open Textbook in Microbiology Centred Around Data-driven Case Studies
Principal Investigator: Evelyn Sun
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $23,607
Adapting a Dynamic and Integrated Metabolic Map into an OER for Teaching Metabolism within the Biological Sciences
Principal Investigator: Lindsay Rogers
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000
Introducing pathology to undergrad students and public by building a multimedia Open Ed Pressbook for David Hardwick Pathology Learning Centre (DHPLC)
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Bush
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000
Organic Chemistry Integrated Resource Package (O-ChIRP)
Principal Investigator: Jackie Stewart
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Mapping the Holocaust for UBC Classes: Interactive Maps of Key Locations in Holocaust History and Memoirs
Principal Investigator: Marcie Schlick
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Enhancing Reconciliation Curriculum Tools to Create Open Educational Resources for Post-Secondary Science and Engineering Programs
Principal Investigator: Pamela Wolf
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Open Educational Resources for Health Care Social Workers- A Renewable Assignment in SOWK 551
Principal Investigator: Kelly Allison
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Adaptation and Deployment of OER for Communicating Scientific Research Findings in Health Sciences Education
Principal Investigator: Mohammad Ehsanul Karim
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Developing Open Access Biometrics Course Materials to Enhance Statistical Learning Capacity
Principal Investigator: Suborna Ahmed
Faculty: Forestry
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Creating Awareness and Facilitating Uptake of Rock the Boat at UBC
Principal Investigator: Susan Cox
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Introducing Pathology to Undergrad Students and Public by Creating a Multimedia Open Ed Pressbook
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Bush
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,980
Enhance Qualitative Data Analysis instruction for graduate students with self-paced video tutorials about key concepts and NVivo software
Principal Investigator: Jeremy Buhler
Faculty: UBC Library
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,894
Enabling Critical Disability Perspectives in the Curriculum
Principal Investigator: A. Corin Parsons de Freitas
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Enhancing metacognitive readers for an open textbook in introductory Physics
Principal Investigator: Simon Bates
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000
Pronunciation open resources: sharing active learning exercises and visual tutorials for pronunciation through an LMS
Principal Investigator: Strang Burton
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $12,867
Global Interprofessional Therapeutic Communication Scale: Interactive Open Access Text and Virtual Gaming Simulation OER
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Campbell
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,920
