Dr. Mike Gelbart is a vocal proponent of open education resources. In his role as Option Co-Director of the UBC MDS program, Dr. Gelbart has advocated for the open release of the syllabi for all Master of Data Science courses, along with lecture notes and labs, under the CC-BY-SA license (https://github.com/UBC-MDS/public). He makes videos of his course lectures freely available, and provides help and support to his colleagues in transforming their own courses to incorporate open education resources.