Open Dialogues: Designing learning resources with empathy
In a tiny sound studio on the third floor in the Chapman Learning Commons, students Selina Boan and Kenny Park are rushing to get the latest edition of their podcast series, in[Tuition], produced. The final exam period is creeping up and their topic of discussion is apt for a UBC student audience: procrastination.
Open Dialogues: Using augmented reality to enhance learning
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhan McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage.
Open Dialogues: Using wiki pages to advance student-created knowledge
Students in the Faculty of Forestry are no strangers to producing engaging content surrounding natural resources management — the medium is changing though.
Open Dialogues: How to engage and support students in open pedagogies
For David Gaertner, an instructor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact, that can live beyond the classroom walls.
Open Dialogues: How to use open tools and resources for problem sets
For a long time engineering instructors have had homework problems for students in UBC’s Learning Management System (LMS). That is, until recently, when they found that students preferred the WeBWorK problems they were getting in their math courses.
Open Dialogues: How to make open content accessible
Accessibility librarian Tara Robertson believes proactive thinking around accessibility can help push the open education movement even further forward.
Open Dialogues: How to use social pedagogies and the web as an educator
Professor Christina Hendricks has incorporated the use of social pedagogies in her classes to introduce different perspectives and interpretations to her students.
Open Dialogues: How to engage with a new generation of learners
Jon Festinger, an instructor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, explains how he has been using open education tools to engage students in a course about video game law.
Open Dialogues: How to make education more accessible
Claudia Krebs, a Professor of Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine, shares how academics must view open education as a social responsibility.
Open Dialogues: How to engage the general public
Maja Krzic shares how open education can help raise the profile of soil science to students and the general public.
