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AC Deger
Name AC Deger Faculty Centre for Accessibility Year(s) 2025 Detail AC Deger is a Program Assistant – Alternate Format and Student Services with the Centre for Accessibility, and an OER Support Pilot Strategist with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. They provide direct support to students who need assistance with the format of course […]
Faeyza Mufti
Name Faeyza Mufti Faculty Education Year(s) 2025 Detail Faeyza Mufti is the Manager, Learning Design with the Learning Design & Digital Innovation team in the Faculty of Education. She was a UDL Fellow in 2023 where she supported instructors to incorporate UDL approaches in EPSE 308: Development, Learning and Culture in the Classroom and EPSE317: […]
Angela Lam
Name Angela Lam Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Angela Lam is the Senior Manager, Arts Learning Technology Support with ARTSISIT, and she has contributed to the UDL Fellows program over the past 3 years as part of the planning team. She has also provided support from her team to multiple instructors in the Faculty of […]
Jaclyn Dee
Name Jaclyn Dee Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Jaclyn Dee is a 2024 UDL Fellow who implemented UDL in BIOL309: Biodiversity of Algae, Fungi, and Bryophytes. Using UDL approaches and principles, her work focused on offering multiple means for students to engage with course materials by revising lab and field activities, providing multiple means […]
Patricia Hingston
Name Patricia Hingston Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Patricia Hingston was a 2023 UDL Fellow who implemented UDL in FNH313: Food Microbiology. Using UDL approaches, she made to improve the course include creating diverse learning opportunities, offering flexible assignment options, and incorporating tools like ePortfolios and task managers to support students […]
Lee Salmon
Name Lee Salmon Faculty Forestry Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr Lee Salmon was a 2023 UDL Fellow who implemented UDL in FRST329: Tree and Stand Measurements. Using UDL approaches, he diversified the representation of materials in the course through high quality recordings and the generation of translated material; incorporated high-quality photography, as well as audio and […]
Antoine Coulombe
Name Antoine Coulombe Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Antoine Coulombe was a 2023 UDL Fellow who implemented UDL approaches and principles in SOWK335 – Social Analysis for Social work Practice. He made a number of changes to his course by using the UDL framework to consider ways in which to present theoretical and complex […]
Jennifer Walsh Marr
Name Jennifer Walsh Marr Faculty UBC Vantage College Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Jennifer Walsh Marr is a 2024 UDL Fellow who has revised course content in VANT150 to better support students’ design thinking both as current students and as future engineers. Her project also aimed to present UDL teaching materials and to incorporate UDL principles […]
Louise Longridge
Name Louise Longridge Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Louise Longridge is a 2024 UDL Fellow who has been working to improve accessibility for those who are visually impaired by providing an alt-text option for each figure included in the Course Notes, Assignments, Midterm Quizzes and Self-Tests. Her project also has focused on creating additional […]
Nolen Bett
Name Nolen Bett Faculty Forestry Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Nolen Bett is a 2024 UDL Fellow who has been working to reduce barriers for field school experiences to mitigate several of the emotional, physical, logistical, and financial challenges faced by students.
Laura Ishiguro
Name Laura Ishiguro Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Laura Ishiguro is a 2024 UDL Fellow who implemented UDL approaches and principles in HIST 329: The People Who Shaped Canada in order to address systemic barriers to accessible teaching and learning about, with, and from historically, persistently, or systemically marginalized people in Canadian history.
Elisabeth Bailey
Name Elisabeth Bailey Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Elisabeth Bailey is a 2024 UDL Fellow and she worked with a team in Nursing to integrate UDL approaches in NURS 401 to mitigate/remove barriers to student engagement and students’ motivation in preparing for key learning experiences.
Carla Ferreira
Name Carla Ferreira Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Carla Ferreira is a 2024 UDL Fellow and she worked with a team in Nursing to integrate UDL approaches in NURS 401 to mitigate/remove barriers to student engagement and students’ motivation in preparing for key learning experiences.
Ehsan Karim
Name Ehsan Karim Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. M. Ehsan Karim and the Epi-OER team are developing an OER to enhance methodological training in epidemiology by integrating open-source data, R software, and interactive learning tools into the SPPH 604 course. This comprehensive resource includes an interactive open textbook, real-world data analysis exercises, and self-paced […]
Cristian Grecu
Name Cristian Grecu Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Cristian Grecu supported the APSC160 Open-Source Hardware/Software Laboratory Re-Fit project at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Through instructional videos, application examples, and interactive simulations using Arduino and Tinkercad, students are provided with hands-on experience in programming, debugging, and embedded systems, fostering practical skills […]
Jennifer Kong
Name Jennifer Kong Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Jennifer Kong collaborated with faculty members from BCIT and UBC medical professionals to create Pathology: From the Tissue Level to Clinical Manifestations and Inter-professional Care, a multimedia OER on pathology that highlights the interprofessional collaboration that occurs between health care providers. Pathology is a well-used resource […]
Evelyn Sun
Name Evelyn Sun Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail As part of the MICB 211 teaching team, Evelyn Sun helped develop Case by Case: A Foundations in Microbiology OER to support a shift toward a more interactive and research-driven learning experience. By integrating open-access case studies from primary literature, the course moves away from traditional lecture-based […]
Lindsay Rogers
Name Lindsay Rogers Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2025 Detail Lindsay Rogers has played a key role in the Ocean Education: Developing Knowledge, Caring, and Taking Action initiative, where she helped develop a hybrid seminar series and produced video interviews with experts on climate change and ocean conservation. Her work has contributed to building ocean literacy by […]
Bridgette Clarkston
Name Bridgette Clarkston Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Brigette Clarkson led the creation of high-quality, openly licensed life cycle illustrations for common seaweeds. While existing seaweed life cycle diagrams were largely confined to specialty textbooks with expert-level terminology, these new images offer clear, detailed descriptions of stages and structures for both expert and non-expert […]
Casey Keulen
Name Casey Keulen Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Casey Keulen, in collaboration with Dr. Claire Yan and Dr. Amir Dehkhoda, is developing an interactive, programming-based problem bank for introductory thermodynamics. This problem bank will complement Dr. Yan’s open textbook, Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics, and provides open-source code that allows students and instructors to […]
Ricky Turgeon
Name Ricky Turgeon Faculty Pharmaceutical Sciences Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Ricky Turgeon led the creation of NERDCAT: A Clinician’s Guide to Appraising Randomized Controlled Trials, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analyse, an open-access resource that empowers clinicians to critically appraise clinical research. The resource includes appraisal checklists alongside detailed guidance, rationales, supporting empiric evidence, and examples. “ […]
Siobhán Wittig McPhee
Name Siobhán Wittig McPhee Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Siobhán Wittig McPhee is developing innovative open educational resources for GEOG 250 and GEOG 350, integrating immersive digital field trips, interactive videos, and storytelling pedagogies to enhance student engagement. By adapting these core courses to online and blended formats with tools like Tapestry, this project expands […]
Joel Ostblom
Name Joel Östblom Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Joel Östblom is developing an interactive open textbook that enhances data visualization education by providing students with hands-on exercises, immediate feedback, and real-world datasets. This accessible, web-based resource will support data literacy at UBC and beyond, equipping learners with essential skills for exploring and communicating data […]
Elizabeth Nijdam
Name Elizabeth Nijdam Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, along with Caroline Brown, is transforming GMST 121: Fairy Tales & Popular Culture with a sustainable, open, and interdisciplinary resource that expands access to German Studies while centering social justice and Indigenous storytelling. Their work-in-progress Pressbooks textbook, Canvas course, and YouTube channel will […]
Kayli Johnson
Name Kayli Johnson Faculty Science Year(s) 2025 Detail Kayli Johnson has played a pivotal role in enhancing student learning in CHEM 123 by integrating interactive videos with H5P into course materials, making learning more effective and personalized.
Sunil Kumar Bhatt
Name Sunil Kumar Bhatt Faculty Arts Year(s) 2025 Detail Sunil Bhatt improved students’ learning experience in ASIA 353 by upgrading open educational video lectures with clearer audio and enhanced visuals. These high-quality resources support self-paced learning and make learning about Hindi film more accessible to students at UBC and beyond.
William Mohn
Name William Mohn Faculty Science Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Mohn uses open textbooks and freely available recorded lectures in his courses to ensure that all students can access materials without financial barriers.
Vishakha Monga
Name Vishakha Monga Faculty Science Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Monga developed an open textbook, Inorganic Chemistry for Chemical Engineers, for CHEM 250, an interdisciplinary inorganic chemistry course. She is committed to increasing the accessibility of her resources and improving student learning with an open approach.
Trevor Campbell
Name Trevor Campbell Faculty Science Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Campbell has collaborated with his colleagues Dr. Tiffany-Anne Timers and Melissa Lee to develop an open textbook for his Introduction to Data Science course at UBC. His students greatly benefit from this freely accessible resource, which allows course instructors to nimbly revise and update the […]
Tracy Kion
Name Tracy Kion Faculty Science Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Tracy Kion ensures that the required readings for her courses are freely accessible for students. Dr. Tracy Kion consistently provides useful course materials and has adapted various course topics into easy-to-read chapters on Canvas with great interactive components attached to each chapter.
Tiffany Timbers
Name Tiffany Timbers Faculty Science Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Tiffany Timbers is an Option Co-Director of the UBC Master of Data Science program, and is a committed proponent for developing and using open textbooks in her courses. She has authored or co-authored two open textbooks that are released under the Creative Commons license: Introduction to Data […]
Mike Gelbart
Name Mike Gelbart Faculty Science Year(s) 2020 Detail 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 […]
Mark Thomson Mac Lean
Name Mark Thomson Mac Lean Faculty Science Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Mark MacLean is one of many instructors in the UBC Math department who use open resources and textbooks in their courses. He’s stated that the department efforts around OER have focused not just on cost, but also on the benefits to student learning. “We […]
Greg Martin
Name Greg Martin Faculty Science Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Greg Martin has taken efforts to provide students taking Math 120 have access to course materials which are free of cost, as well as using WeBWorK open problem sets.
Mike Marin
Name Mike Marin Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2020 Detail Mike Marin is a leader in open education and is committed to making learning accessible for all. He runs a YouTube channel where he has posted over a hundred lecture-style videos covering topics in which he is a subject matter expert. Subjects of his videos include hypothesis […]
Chelsea Himsworth
Name Chelsea Himsworth Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2020 Detail Seeing a gap in resources available to her students, Dr. Himsworth began a project in 2019 to develop a science communication open textbook that focused on communication of risk in the scientific context. Working from the first version of the text, Dr. Himsworth is now incorporating open […]
Heather O’Brien
Name Heather O’Brien Faculty Library, Archival and Information Studies Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. O’Brien is leading on the STOREE project (Supporting Transparent and Open Research Engagement and Exchange) with UBC Library, Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library, UBC Learning Exchange and the BC Centre for Substance Use. STOREE is funded by SSHRC and has three major […]
Matthew Mitchell
Name Matthew Mitchell Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Matthew Mitchell ensures that the extensive course materials in LFS 250 are all free and accessible to students, and deploys a range of media to engage students, including virtual tours of the UBC and BC dairy farms.
Maja Krzic
Name Maja Krzic Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Krzic is a co-editor of an open access E-textbook under development for Introduction to Soil Science, a course taken by 300 students annually at UBC alone. Currently textbooks written for the USA are commonly used. Maja and her co-editor are leading a […]
Fernanda Tomaselli
Name Fernanda Tomaselli Faculty Forestry Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Tomaselli builds her course materials list making sue that everything is free to access and comes in a variety of formats.
Amy Metcalfe
Name Amy Metcalfe Faculty Education Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Metcalfe has been a very active proponent of the use of OERs at UBC in particular and academia in general. She includes topics related to open access publishing, open educational resources, and creative commons licenses in her courses and invites guest speakers to share their […]
Zorana Svedic
Name Zorana Svedic Faculty Business Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Svedic and Dr. Cavusoglu ensured that the course textbook and required software for their Information Systems course were freely available to all students. In a technically demanding course, where the cost of books and homework tools can routinely exceed hundreds of dollars, they demonstrated that expensive […]
Steven Barnes
Name Steven Barnes Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Steven Barnes is a committed advocate of making education accessible. He has removed barriers to learning by using open textbooks in his courses in place of paid textbooks, designed a number of open online courses, and has pioneered open technologies to support open pedagogy and OER […]
Somayeh Kamranian
Name Somayeh Kamranian Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Somayeh Kamranian is passionate about open pedagogy and seeks to learn both with and from her students. As part of her commitment to open education, Dr. Kamranian recently published Let’s Read French Books, an open textbook that aims to make learning French easier and more engaging […]
Siobhán McElduff
Name Siobhán McElduff Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Siobhán McElduff has created several open textbooks. Most recently, she worked with a team of CNERS students (Grace Guy, Danielle Lee, Keith Warner-Harder, James McKintrick, Sophie Roth, and Luoyao Zhang) to launch UnRoman Romans, an OER that brings together ancient sources on social outsiders in the […]
Simon Lolliot
Name Simon Lolliot Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 Detail Dr. Simon Lolliot has been an early adopter of using open textbooks rather than paid textbooks in multiple years of the courses he teaches. His use of OERs has had a huge impact and cost saving for students (including eliminating textbook fees for more […]
Michael Schandorf
Name Sabina Magliocco Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Sabina Magliocco reduced financial burdens on her students in her RGST200/ANTH202 course by ensuring that the learning materials were free and accessible for all. She also regularly shared open resources for additional learning and barrier-free mental health resources to support students during this challenging time.
Mark Turin
Name Mark Turin Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Mark Turin is a devoted advocate for open learning. He uses open educational resources whenever possible, creates opportunities for producing open access materials, and encourages students and scholars alike to think about how information is shared and with whom. In the courses he teaches at UBC, […]
Loch Brown
Name Loch Brown Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Brown has made a commitment to open learning by always providing open source materials for all of his classes is currently putting together an open source textbook. He goes above and beyond to provide his students with accessible resources and explains the value of open sourced […]
Kurtis Peters
Name Kurtis Peters Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Peters cares a lot about student access to textbooks and ensure that his course materials list contains openly accessible content.