Open Education
Open Dialogues: Using augmented reality to enhance learning
By Abigail Saxton on July 18, 2018
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhan McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage.
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Open Dialogues: How to engage and support students in open pedagogies
By Wendy Chan on January 29, 2018
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.
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Open UBC snapshot: Use of open resources continues to increase
By Will Engle on January 11, 2018
The adoption and use of open resources at UBC continues to increase, with student savings in academic year 2017 estimated at $1.4 to $2.2 million.
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Open Dialogues: How to use open tools and resources for problem sets
By Emi Sasagawa on November 30, 2017
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.
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Panel explores tension and risk in open scholarship
By Emi Sasagawa on November 17, 2017
Last month UBC, in partnership with BCIT, SFU and BCcampus, held a panel discussion exploring the tensions and risks on open scholarship, as part of International Open Access Week.
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Open Dialogues: How to make open content accessible
By Emi Sasagawa on July 28, 2017
Accessibility librarian Tara Robertson believes proactive thinking around accessibility can help push the open education movement even further forward.
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Open Dialogues: How to use social pedagogies and the web as an educator
By Emi Sasagawa on April 4, 2017
Professor Christina Hendricks has incorporated the use of social pedagogies in her classes to introduce different perspectives and interpretations to her students.
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Open Dialogues: How to engage with a new generation of learners
By Emi Sasagawa on November 7, 2016
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.
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Open Dialogues: How to make education more accessible
By Emi Sasagawa on June 28, 2016
Claudia Krebs, a Professor of Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine, shares how academics must view open education as a social responsibility.
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Open Dialogues: How to engage the general public
By Emi Sasagawa on April 15, 2016
Maja Krzic shares how open education can help raise the profile of soil science to students and the general public.
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