OER Grants for Affordable Course Materials – Deadline Jan. 19, 20
By Will Engle on November 4, 2022
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 […] Read More...
Call for Proposals for Open Educational Resource Grants (Deadline Extended)
By Will Engle on September 16, 2022
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, […] Read More...
2022 OER Fund Evaluation Snapshot
By Will Engle and Trish Varao-Sousa on September 8, 2022
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... Read More...
OER Project Evaluation Workshop – Sept 22
By Will Engle on September 1, 2022
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 […] Read More...
H5P: supporting knowledge assessment through interactivity
By Remy Corbet on April 7, 2022
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. Read More...
Registration for POSE is now Open!
By Will Engle on November 9, 2021
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, […] Read More...
OER Fund(ed): Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Support Student Learning Inside and Outside of Class
By Will Engle on November 1, 2021
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 […] Read More...
OER Fund(ed): Bringing culture and community to online language learning
By Will Engle on October 12, 2021
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 […] Read More...
2021/22 Call for Applications for Open Educational Resource Grants
By Will Engle on September 22, 2021
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. Read More...
Open UBC Snapshot 2021: Open Strategies for Remote Teaching & Learning
By Will Engle on May 10, 2021
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 […] Read More...