Leveraging Digital and Cinematic Storytelling to Enhance Integration of Multilayered Neuroscientific Concepts for Undergrad Students.

Principal Investigator: Steven Barnes & Hagar Goldberg
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000


Enhancement and Customization of an Accessible Communication Strategies Textbook

Principal Investigator: Neil Leveridge
Faculty: Forestry
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000


Writing Place: A Scholarly Communication Open Textbook for Forestry and Land & Food Systems

Principal Investigator: Lindsay Cuff
Faculty: LFS
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $18,294


An Interactive Online Textbook for Fostering Open Pedagogy in Geomatics

Principal Investigator: Paul Pickell
Faculty: Forestry
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,999


A Research Manual for Undergraduates: Step-by-step Guide from Conceptualization to Dissemination

Principal Investigator: Oral Robinson
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $14,994


Immersive, multimodal and interactive modules in Geography courses

Principal Investigator: Siobhán McPhee
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,696


Producing and Integrating Open-Access Resources on Real People in the Past in Introductory Ancient History and Archaeology Courses

Principal Investigator: Megan Daniels
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,823


Adapting Clinical Evidence Appraisal Tools for Doctor of Pharmacy Students

Principal Investigator: Ricky Turgeon
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,997


Pandemic Pedagogy: Expanding the classroom community through online scholarly networks

Principal Investigator: Colleen Laird
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000


Online Pedagogy Resource for Religious Studies

Principal Investigator: M. Willis Monroe
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,940


Developing Your Reading Skills in Italian

Principal Investigator: Luisa Canuto
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2021
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $2,000


H5P Formative Assessment Learning Activities for OpenStax Psychology

Principal Investigator: Simon Lolliot
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $10,000


Let’s Read French Books

Principal Investigator: Robert Miller
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Compendium of UBC Wiki Pages on Themes in Aboriginal and Community Forestry

Principal Investigator: Janette Bulkan
Faculty: Forestry
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Mission Possible! A plan to expand and refine the open-source science communication textbook “The Mission, the Message, and the Medium”

Principal Investigator: Chelsea Himsworth
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Open EDST: Creating a departmental dialogue about open educational resources

Principal Investigator: Amy Scott Metcalfe
Faculty: Education
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Development of an Open Online Resource for One Topic in Aqueous Environmental Chemistry (CHEM 301)

Principal Investigator: Anka Lekhi
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $995


Adaptation of new OER for Chem 250

Principal Investigator: Vishakha Monga
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Nepali and Tibetan Language in a Community Context (OER)

Principal Investigator: Mark Turin
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Creation of an Open Source Problem Library for Undergraduate Biomechanics Courses

Principal Investigator: Peter Cripton
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $14,308


Open-Access Greek and Roman Mythology

Principal Investigator: Tara Mulder
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,400


Opening Educational Psychology: Pathways to Inclusivity and Student Centered Practices

Principal Investigator: Surita Jhangiani
Faculty: Education
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,900


Transition Math 105 From Traditional Textbook to OER

Principal Investigator: Elyse Yeager
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,031


Open Textbook on Mathematical Writing, Proof and Logic

Principal Investigator: Seckin Demirbas
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $25,000


Full STEAM Ahead: Digital Teaching and Learning Resources for Writing Courses in STEM Disciplines

Principal Investigator: Laurie McNeill
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,461


Enhancement and Customization of an Open Physics Textbook for International Students

Principal Investigator: George Rieger
Faculty: Science/Vantage
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $23,258


Open Educational Resources for Interdisciplinary Undergraduates in Public Health

Principal Investigator: Robert Woollard
Faculty: Medicine
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Open Educational Resources as an Approach to Globalizing Students’ Introduction to Sociology

Principal Investigator: Katherine Lyon
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $958


Zines as Open Pedagogy – GRSJ 102 Zine Faire

Principal Investigator: Erin Fields
Faculty: UBC Library
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $830


The Significance of Artefacts in the Understanding of the Holocaust

Principal Investigator: Uma Kumar
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $993


Opening Introductory Food Science Content on UBC Wiki

Principal Investigator: Judy Chan
Faculty: LFS
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


UnRoman Romans: an OER on difference and stigma in ancient Rome

Principal Investigator: Siobhán McElduff
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $1,000


Families Across the Life Course: A Canadian Open Text

Principal Investigator: Silvia Bartolic
Faculty: Arts
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,253


Open Data Structures — A Modern Textbook for CPSC221

Principal Investigator: Cinda Heeren
Faculty: Science
Funding Year: 2022
Grant Stream: OER Rapid Innovation Grant
Funding Amount: $997


Adopting Interactive learning resources for an introductory chemical engineering design course

Principal Investigator: Jonathan Verrett
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $19,356


Registration for POSE is now Open!

Registration for POSE is now Open!

Interested in learning more about open education and how it fits into scholarship? The Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) is a four month flexible and blended program that will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education, and Open Research. In POSE, we’ll be exploring how open copyright licenses, collaborative practices, […]


OER Fund(ed): Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Support Student Learning Inside and Outside of Class

OER Fund(ed): Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Support Student Learning Inside and Outside of Class

Jonathan Verret received a 2019/20 OER Implementation Grant for a project that resulted in the creation of a “Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering” open textbook. This resource, which provides an introduction to foundational topics of chemical engineering, is used in UBC’s CHBE 220 “Founding Principles in Chemical and Biological Engineering I” course. Previously, this […]


OER Fund(ed): Bringing culture and community to online language learning

OER Fund(ed): Bringing culture and community to online language learning

Last year, Dr. Mark Turin and other faculty members from the UBC Himalaya Program received an Open Education Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation Grant for their proposal: Nepali and Tibetan Language in a Community Context. The resulting project created two OER courses, developed by UBC Himalaya Program and Asian Studies language instructors Binod Shrestha (Nepali) and […]


Decorative Image with the words OER Fund 2021/22 Call for Proposals

2021/22 Call for Applications for Open Educational Resource Grants 

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver is pleased to invite the UBC community to apply for the UBC Vancouver  Open Educational Resources (OER) Fund Rapid Innovation and Implementation Grants. 


Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching & Learning

Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching & Learning

The 2020/21 academic year brought a transition to remote learning and delivery of online courses. This transition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed the importance of student ease of access to textbooks and other course materials. In 2020/21, an estimated 19,152 students enrolled in courses using OERs in place of paid textbooks or readings. One […]


OER Fund(ed): complex concepts, simple English

OER Fund(ed): complex concepts, simple English

For international students who aren’t native English speakers, there’s so much more to learn than just their classwork. Earlier this year, Georg Rieger and colleagues from the Department of Physics & Astronomy along with Vantage College received an OER Implementation Grant for the proposal, Enhancement and Customization of an Open Physics Textbook for International Students, […]


OER Fund(ed): real-world problems for biomechanics students

OER Fund(ed): real-world problems for biomechanics students

Earlier this year, Robyn Newell was part of a group of six faculty members granted an Open Education Resources (OER) Implementation Grant for their proposal, Creation of an open source, WeBWorK based, problem library for undergraduate biomechanics courses. With this year’s call for applications for OER Fund grants now open, Robyn shared why they chose […]


OER Fund(ed): diverse voices and ‘beyond the classroom’ projects

OER Fund(ed): diverse voices and ‘beyond the classroom’ projects

In February 2020, Surita Jhangiani and colleagues from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education were awarded an OER Implementation Grant for their proposal, Opening Educational Psychology: Pathways to inclusivity and student centered practices. With applications now open for 2021’s OER Fund grants, Surita explains the advantages of collaborating to create open […]


Call for Applications for Open Educational Resource Grants

Call for Applications for Open Educational Resource Grants

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver is pleased to invite the UBC community to apply for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Rapid Innovation and Implementation Grants. The UBC Vancouver OER Fund, established through the UBC Academic Excellence Fund in 2019, aims to support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials through […]


UBC OER Match Funding Available for UBCV Faculty Members

UBC OER Match Funding Available for UBCV Faculty Members

BCcampus recently announced the first of two calls for proposals targeting the development of formative activities for open homework systems. The intent of these grants is to develop activities in which students can practice applying new concepts and skills that align with content within the selected open textbook. Successful proposals from faculty members at UBC […]


Open UBC Snapshot 2020: Significant Commitments to Open Resources

Open UBC Snapshot 2020: Significant Commitments to Open Resources

In the fall of 2019, the Office of the Provost and the Vice-President Academic at UBC Vancouver committed one million dollars in grant funding over four years to support the adoption, use, and sustainment of open educational resources (OER) at UBC. This grant funding initiative builds upon significant contributions and commitments that UBC faculty, students […]


Announcing the 2019/20 Open Educational Resources Fund awarded projects

Announcing the 2019/20 Open Educational Resources Fund awarded projects

The University of British Columbia is committed to making education more affordable and accessible through the use of open educational resources (OER). The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic is pleased to announce the first round of 2019/20 OER Fund projects. As of February 15, over $220,500 in project grants have been approved to […]


2019 OER Faculty Panel

2019 OER Faculty Panel Roundup

 On October 1, 2019, UBC hosted an Open Education Resources (OER) Faculty Panel where faculty talking about past and current OER projects, the difficulties and challenges they faced, and the success and impact they achieved. Previous discussions and advocacy around Open Educational Resources (OERs) (such as the AMS Textbook Broke Campaign) have highlighted the […]


Call for Applications for Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants

Call for Applications for Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver is pleased to announce a new call for applications for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Fund. In alignment with UBC’s Strategic Plan, Shaping UBC’s Next Century, the Office of the Provost has committed $250,000 in annual funding for the next four years to support: The […]