Erin Fields
Ingrid Frank
Name Ingrid Frank Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2024 Detail Ingrid Frank is the lead student in a Pharmacy student open educational resource, Rxpid. The Pressbook resource for pharmacy students was to developed to help students access relevant resources related to specific conditions. The resource provides links to a resource along with a description for their use […]
Jason Min
Name Jason Min Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2024 Detail Dr. Jason Min has been a source of support and collaboration with Pharmacy students creating Rxpid, a Pressbook resource for pharmacy students to access relevant resources related to specific conditions. The resource provides links to a resource along with a description for their use in treating conditions.
Jennifer Kong
Name Jennifer Kong Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2024 Detail Dr. Jennifer Kong created an undergraduate pathology text in partnership with UBC David Hardwick Pathology Learning Centre (DHPLC). Since its official publication in December 2022, the Pathology Textbook has garnered significant attention worldwide, including continued local growth with a partnership with LifeLabs.
Iris Scuer Riera
Name Iris Scuer Riera Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Iris Scuer Riera offered alternatives to purchased practice books in her course by focusing her assessments on openly available and free lectures, videos, and additional source materials.
David Sasse
Name David Sasse Faculty Education Year(s) 2024 Detail David Sasse understands the financial barriers students face and offers resources that are freely openly available to those taking his courses.
Sharon Stein
Name Sharon Stein Faculty Education Year(s) 2024 Detail Sharon Stein uses open learning as part of her pedagogy. She develops frames of inquiry and pedagogical practices that support people to unlearn harmful and unsustainable habits of knowing and being and learn to cultivate deeper forms of self-reflexivity and relational rigour.
Mathew Wright
Name Mathew Wright Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022, 2024 Detail 2022: Dr. Matthew Wright avoids assigning costly textbooks wherever possible, instead making use of open access materials, as well as resources available through the library.2024:Mathew Wright offers free and accessible resources to students taking his courses, supporting ease of use and eliminating the barrier of cost.
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Name Mohammed Rafi Arefin Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Mohammed Rafi Arefin consistently offers students accessible, relevant, and informative free open resources, saving students money.
Amber Moore
Name Amber Moore Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Amber Moore exclusively uses texts openly available to students through the library and platforms like Instagram, and YouTube. She supports her students through health and wellness practices, creating a warm and welcoming environment.
Karina Mochetti
Name Karina Mochetti Faculty Science Year(s) 2024 Detail Karina Mochetti provides accessible, free, and high-quality OERs for her CPSC 121 students. She provides a wealth of OER content that expands topics covered in lectures and tutorials, supporting passionate students who want to delve further.
Peter Dauvergne
Name Peter Dauvergne Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Peter Dauvergne offers students cost-free resources to support their learning and inclusive access to educational materials.
Sabina Magliocco
Name Sabina Magliocco Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Sabina Magliocco supports her students by offering course materials that are openly and freely available.
Bethany Michel
Name Bethany Michel Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Bethany Michel creates and offers students course materials, such as lecture slides, videos, websites, and other resources that openly and freely available for students to use.
Trevor Drummer
Name Trevor Drummer Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2024 Detail Trevor Drummer’s innovative use of Open Education Resources has transformed the educational landscape for students, making advanced research materials and data sets widely accessible without any cost. He is a true OER advocate creating a community of practice among his peers to expand the use of OER […]
Marlisse Silver Sweeney
Name Marlisse Silver Sweeney Faculty Commerce and Business Administration Year(s) 2024 Detail Marlisse Silver Sweeney supports Sauder students by selecting free open resources for her courses. She is also creative in her approach to learning, making the COMM 196 students education feel meaningful.
Sylvia Cho
Name Sylvia Cho Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Sylvia Cho provides students with a free open textbook for linguistics, saving students additional fees.
Jaleh Mansoor
Name Jaleh Mansoor Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Jaleh Mansoor makes accessible all texts and resources for Art History courses at no extra cost to students.
Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Name Rajesh Vijayaraghavan Faculty Commerce and Business Administration Year(s) 2024 Detail Dr. Rajesh Vijayaraghavan and his OER project team developed open educational resources, including animated tutorial videos and quizzes. These resources enhance students’ conceptual understanding of fundamental accounting principles while also fostering their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Samuel Beswick
Name Samuel Beswick Faculty Law Year(s) 2024 Detail Samuel Beswick created an open and free casebook for students learning about tort law. The well-structured casebook offers a variety of supplementary materials and is available for reuse on CanLII.
Jonathan Graves
Name Jonathan Graves Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Jonathan Graves takes the extra effort to ensure that students have cost-free access to open textbooks, saving students from extra fees.
Kelly McCormick
Name Kelly McCormick Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Kelly McCormick offers categorized free open course materials, supporting students in accessing the resources seamlessly.
Allen Sens
Name Allen Sens Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022, 2024 Detail 2022:Dr. Allen Sens incorporates multimedia and interactive learning materials into POLI 369, rather than relying on a commercial textbook.2023:Allen Sens provides students with a wealth of freely accessible resources, including videos, articles, and government publications, at no extra cost to students.
Mandy Catron
Name Mandy Catron Faculty Arts Year(s) 2024 Detail Mandy Catron offers students course materials through Canvas, making it easier for students to access and at no extra cost.
Luis Linares
Name Luis Linares Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Luis Linares champions open learning through his creation of video lectures that cover the entirety of ELEC201. Dr. Linares’s publicly posted videos have received thousands of views.
Lisa Osborne
Name Lisa Osborne Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Lisa Osborne provides a free textbook for MICB202 that is crucial for student learning. Powerpoints, notes, and other resources are also available to students at no cost.
Mark Harris
Name Mark Harris Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Mark Harris cares about equal access in all aspects of his teaching. He posts a variety of course materials on Canvas and ensures that each topic has additional resources that are freely accessible.
Michelle Walks
Name Michelle Walks Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Michelle Walks recognizes the burden that costly educational materials places on students. She has planned courses around online and affordable materials.
Munir Squires
Name Munir Squires Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Munir Squires teaches his courses using freely available readings and resources rather than paid materials.
Nelly Pante
Name Nelly Pante Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Nelly Panté is very accessible outside of classes and strives to help students with their concerns. She provides her students with a free online textbook.
Nisha Malhotra
Name Nisha Malhotra Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Nisha Malhotra has created a freely accessible textbook for her ECON255 course. Her students appreciate the affordability of her class resources.
Nojang Khatami
Name Nojang Khatami Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Professor Nojang Khatami made many of the required readings for his POLI240 course freely available, relieving a significant financial burden for his students.
Paul Carter
Name Paul Carter Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Paul Carter provides a variety of learning materials including videos, readings, and code samples at no additional cost to students.
Stephen Lukits
Name Stephen Lukits Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Stefan Lukits ensures that all readings for PHIL375 are available to students for free. With over 40 mandatory readings and another 40 optional readings, Dr. Lukits’s efforts make a substantial difference for students.
Strang Burton
Name Strang Burton Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Burton is also a contributor to the openly licensed eNunciate! site which is an OER that incorporates ultrasound visual technology into pronunciation teaching resources, self-paced learning modules, and more.
Susan Hollingshead
Name Susan Hollingshead Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Professor Susan Hollingshead was one of the first professors to adopt e-textbooks and has been providing them to her students free of cost for years. Her students appreciate her thoughtfulness and care.
Sven Bachmann
Name Sven Bachmann Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Sven Bachmann teaches MATH100 which uses an online textbook that is free of cost to students rather than paid materials.
Tara Mulder
Name Tara Mulder Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Tara Mulder has created an openly licensed textbook that ensures her CLST105 students incur no material costs. Dr. Mulder also engages in open pedagogy by having her students comment on and interact with the text using Hyposthes.is.
Yvonne Dawydiak
Name Yvonne Dawydiak Faculty Education Year(s) 2021 Detail Yvonne Dawydiak supports the use of open resources in UBC’s Teaching Education Program. She created the Scarfe Sandbox, an OER bank of teaching and learning resources.
Ziliang Ye
Name Ziliang Ye Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Ziliang Ye has adopted an open textbook for PHYS117 which he supplements with problem sets, tutorials, and pre-recorded lectures. Teaching a first-year physics course, Dr. Ye’s efforts have collectively saved students thousands of dollars.
Lindsay Cuff
Name Lindsay Cuff Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2021, 2022 Detail Professor Lindsay Cuff supports the use of OER and recently received an OER Fund grant to create a Scholarly Communication Open Textbook for Forestry and Land & Food Systems students.
Lillian May
Name Lillian May Faculty Arts Year(s) 2021, 2022, 2024 Detail 2021, 2022 – Dr. Lillian May served as an open champion during the transition to online learning when she altered her course reading lists to contain only open content that was freely accessible to all her students. 2024 – Dr. Lillian May creates and provides […]
Konstantin Beznosov
Name Konstantin Beznosov Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Konstantin Beznosov has extensive knowledge of how to integrate open source materials into his classes.
Kate Weinberger
Name Kate Weinberger Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Kate Weinberger recognizes and appreciates access barriers and makes an effort to ensure all class materials are available at no cost to students.
Joanne Turner
Name Joanne Turner Faculty Commerce and Business Administration Year(s) 2021 Detail Professor Joanne Turner provides her students with up-to-date materials on marketing strategies and purpose-driven brands. She also made a key course reading freely available for students.
Joanna McGrenere
Name Joanna McGrenere Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Professor McGrenere teaches CPSC110 which uses OER videos and problems rather than requiring students to purchase a textbook.
Jay Wickenden
Name Jay Wickenden Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Jay Wickenden teaches CHEM233 and uses a freely available alternative to a costly traditional textbook.
Javed Iqbal
Name Javed Iqbal Faculty Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Javed Iqbal teaches PHYS131 which uses a freely available and openly licensed textbook rather than paid materials.
Graham Hendra
Name Graham Hendra Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Graham Hendra uses a responsive open textbook on heat transfer formatted with LaTeX. As part of a foundational course, Dr. Hendra’s open practices impact hundreds of students each year.
Gordon Christie
Name Gordon Christie Faculty Law Year(s) 2021 Detail Dr. Gordon Christie ensures that all resources used in class are freely accessible through the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).
Georg Rieger
Name Georg Rieger Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021, 2022 Detail 2019:Dr. Georg Rieger worked with colleagues to adapt an Open Stax Physics textbook that they put into an edX site for a first-year physics course. They not only saved students money by doing so, but also customized the book to better fit the course. Stefan […]