Leila Malkin
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.
Jonathan Ichikawa
Name Jonathan Ichikawa Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020, 2024 Detail Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa’s text (co-authored by Dr. Magnus of SUNY Albany), forall x, was developed with significant student input and feedback through its use in PHIL 220, a large-enrolment course taken by undergraduates in many degree programs. The text forms the backbone for a course taught […]
Heather Robertson
Name Heather Robertson Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Dr. Robertson makes certain that students have access to course materials by building her required reading lists using open access materials.
Elena Zampieri
Name Elena Zampieri Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020 Detail Elena Zampieri accomodated classes equitably during COVID by making sure all students had fair and available access to course resources irrespective of bandwidth, timezone, or content restriction challenges.
Ben Cheung
Name Ben Cheung Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020, 2021 Detail Dr. Ben Cheung has been an advocate for Open Education on campus for many years. He uses open textbooks in his class, contributes to open literature, and raises awareness for OER implementation across campus. In Dr. Cheung’s own words: “Not only is this open textbook comparable […]
Anders Kraal
Name Anders Kraal Faculty Arts Year(s) 2020,2021, 2022 Detail 2020: Dr. Kraal ensures that the required readings for his courses are freely accessible for students.2021,2022: Dr. Anders Kraal prioritizes providing course resources that are free of cost which allows students to focus on course content rather than how they will pay for materials.
Suzanne Campbell
Name Suzanne Campbell Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2020 Detail Working with Dr. Jonathan Verrett, Dr. Agnes d’Entremont has worked to develop and convert existing mathematics problem sets to WeBWorK, an open-source online homework delivery system. With Verrett, she converted 700 existing problems from Suzanne Campbell is an early adopter of innovative teaching methodologies, including simulations […]
Jonathan Verrett
Name Jonathan Verrett Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2020, 2024 Detail Dr. Jonathan Verrett shows a deep commitment to providing free and open access to resources developed within a public university setting. Working with Dr. Agnes d’Entremont, Jonathan has worked to develop and convert existing mathematics problem sets to WeBWorK, an open-source online homework delivery system. […]