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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
Developing dynamics practice problem resources in MechanicsMap and WeBWorK
Principal Investigator: Agnes d’Entremount
Faculty: Applied Science
Funding Year: 2020
Grant Stream: OER Implementation Grant
Funding Amount: $24,986
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
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
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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 […]
