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Alyssa Alexander
Name Alyssa Alexander Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Alyssa Alexander ensures that the textbook and required readings for SOCI 200 are accessible and
Alexander Wilson
Name Alexander Wilson Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Alexander Wilson co-developed the OER Practicing and Presenting Social Research with Dr. Oral Robinson, contributing to the researching, writing, editing, and publishing.
Oral Robinson
Name Oral Robinson Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Considerate of the high costs of textbooks for undergraduate students, Dr. Oral Robinson assigned readings for his SOCI 302 and SOCI 200 courses which were either openly accessible or provided through the library. In 2022, with support from the OER Fund, Dr. Robinson completed Practicing and Presenting […]
Maddison Zapach
Name Maddison Zapach Faculty Sauder Year(s) 2022 Detail Maddison Zapach has contributed to the creation of OERs used in UBC courses and beyond, including the Second Edition of Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries.
Greg Werker
Name Greg Werker Faculty Sauder Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Greg Werker provides access to recorded lectures and all course materials for COMM 190 through Canvas.
Ruth Freeman
Name Ruth Freeman Faculty Sauder Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Ruth Freeman provided students access to slides, problem sets, and case studies instead of assigning a textbook.
Andrew Baron
Name Andrew Baron Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Andrew Baron avoids burdening his students with costly textbooks by compiling custom course materials for his psychology courses.
Hagar Goldberg
Name Hagar Goldberg Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Hagar Goldberg does not require students to purchase a textbook for PSYCH 301, but instead creates a dynamic list of readings and course materials students can access at no cost.
Robert Farkasch
Name Robert Farkasch Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Robert Farkasch assigns readings which are either open access or available through the library, saving students the cost of a textbook, and making it easy to keep course materials up to date with current events.
Aaron Boley
Name Aaron Boley Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Aaron Boley assigns an open source textbook in ASTR 101, as well as open source simulations to enhance learning.
Efran Rezaie
Name Efran Rezaie Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Professor Efran Rezai teaches PHYS 100 using customized, open access resources made available through edX, while also contributing to the transformation of other physics courses into open courses.
Joss Ives
Name Joss Ives Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Joss Ives teaches PHYS 117 using readings and homework problems from an openly licensed textbook available through OpenStax.
James Charboneau
Name James Charboneau Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. James Charbonneau ensures that all course materials are available to students at no cost and incorporates interactive open access resources such as PhET simulations and applets for astronomy in his teaching.
Dave Gilbert
Name Dave Gilbert Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019, 2022 Detail Dr. Dave Gilbert is developing a project that combines a revision to an open textbook for Logic with Carnap. This will allow students to save money not only on a textbook, but also on homework software that they might otherwise be asked to pay for.
Eric Margolis
Name Eric Margolis Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Eric Margolis keeps PHIL 101 accessible by providing recordings of lectures and ensuring that the extensive reading list is available at no cost to students.
Kristen Thomasen
Name Kristen Thomasen Faculty Law Year(s) 2022 Detail Professor Kristen Thomasen provides access to all lectures and readings for LAW 241 through Canvas, with no paid course materials required.
Samuel Beswick
Name Samuel Beswick Faculty Law Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Samuel Beswick compiled and edited Tort Law: Cases and Studies, an open access casebook for introductory classes on torts at Canadian law schools. This is an invaluable resource for many courses, including LAW 241.
Natania Abebe
Name Natania Abebe Faculty Nursing Year(s) 2022 Detail Natania Abebe developed an open educational resource toolkit and film to support students to think critically about the structural and socio-political inequities that affect them, while centering climate change and mental health.
Carl Ollivier-Gooch
Name Carl Ollivier-Gooch Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch provided annotated lectures and all required course material for MECH 587 and 581 through Canvas, with no textbook or paid subscriptions required.
Eric Cytrynbaum
Name Eric Cytrynbaum Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Eric Cytrynbaum uses an open access textbook and problem books developed by UBC Faculty for MATH 100.
Peter Harrington
Name Peter Harrington Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 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 the LMS to the Open Problem Library. Agnes says of the Open Problem […]
Usman Muhammad
Name Usman Muhammad Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Usman Muhammad uses an open access textbook for MATH 100, saving students the cost of a commercial calculus textbook.
Anthony Wachs
Name Anthony Wachs Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Anthony Wachs teaches MATH 100 using the open access CLP Calculus textbooks and problem books developed at UBC.
Mark Thomas Mac Lean
Name Mark Thomas Mac Lean Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Mark Mac Lean uses a UBC-developed open textbook for his MATH 104 course. Dr. Mac Lean further supplements the textbook with workbooks and practice questions to enrich student understanding.
Lior Silberman
Name Lior Silberman Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Lior Silberman does not require the purchase of a textbook for his courses, instead making use of the open access CLP calculus textbooks, and other texts available through the library.
Albert Chau
Name Albert Chau Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Professor Albert Chau reduced costs for students by teaching with the openly licensed CLP Calculus Textbooks created by UBC Mathematics Department faculty, rather than a commercial alternative.
Brian Wetton
Name Brian Wetton Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Wetton provided open textbooks and workbooks for his MATH 104 students, saving them the cost of expensive textbooks and subscriptions.
Azita Madadi-Noei
Name Azita Madadi-Noei Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Azita Madadi-Noei condenses all the course material for FNH 200 into well-organized lessons posted on Canvas, with no commercial textbook required.
Benjamin Bruce
Name Benjamin Bruce Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Benjamin Bruce makes use of open textbooks and problem books in his MATH 200 course and encourages students to explore other open resources available online to deepen their understanding.
Denise Gabriel
Name Denise Gabriel Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Denise Gabriel ensures that all required readings for ISCI 360 are available to students free of cost. In 2021, Dr. Gabriel worked with a small team to develop a virtual version of ISCI 361/461, a field course usually taught in Iceland. Complete with video diaries, expert […]
Tess Prendergast
Name Tess Prendergast Faculty Library Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Tess Prendergast makes all the course material for LIBR 520 available through Canvas, with no required textbook.
Lisa Nathan
Name Lisa Nathan Faculty Library Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Lisa Nathan builds her courses around open access resources, ensuring that all students have access without financial barriers.
Amaan Merali
Name Amaan Merali Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Amaan Merali ensures HIST 405 and HIST 354 are accessible by assigning course materials which are free to students, as well as providing recordings of lectures and lecture slides.
June Skeeter
Name June Skeeter Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Professor June Skeeter makes course materials for their GEOS 270 course publicly available through GitHub, creating engaging and customized learning modules and saving students the cost of a textbook.
Nina Hewitt
Name Nina Hewitt Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Nina Hewitt contributed to the creation of the Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, a cross-institutional project that provides 24 labs to be implemented within first year post-secondary physical geography courses. The labs have been developed to be easily adapted for various course structures, durations, and […]
Kathryn McKay
Name Kathryn Mckay Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Professor Kathryn McKay uses an open access textbook to teach HIST 105 and connects her students with open resources such as Open History Seminar to stimulate class discussions.
David Bunn
Name David Dunn Faculty Forestry Year(s) 2022 Detail Instead of assigning a textbook for his CONS 101 class, Dr. David Bunn makes use of openly licensed videos and lectures, as well as resources available through the library.
David Gaertner
Name David Gartener Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019, 2022 Detail Dr. David Gaertner is leading the way for open education in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and educating his students on the implications of open knowledge. While Open Education finds more tensions in the humanities, Dr Gaertner has embraced this dialogue within his classroom by exploring […]
Wei Li
Name Wei Li Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Wei Li offers course materials which are customized for ECON 304, contain different difficulty levels, and are free of cost to students.
Nika Martinussen
Name Nika Martinussen Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Nika Martinussen, a student in engineering physics, worked with Professor Wolf to support the creation of the Decolonizing the Engineering Curriculum open textbook.
Pamela Wolf
Name Pamela Wolf Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2022 Detail A passionate advocate for open resources and Indigenous reconciliation through the engineering curriculum, Professor Wolf spearheaded the creation of the Decolonizing Engineering Curriculum open textbook.
Tao Huan
Name Tao Huan Faculty Science Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Tao Huan teaches CHEM 211 using openly licensed online course materials including textbooks, case studies, and data sets.
Donald Wong
Name Donald Wong Faculty Science Year(s) 2022, 2023 Detail Donald Wong provides BIOL 111 students with an openly-accessible textbook and additional resources, saving students money.
Robyn Newell
Name Robyn Newell Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2021,2022 Detail Dr. Robyn Newell is leading a group of students in creating a problem bank of biomechanics questions. Available on WeBWork, this invaluable resource enriches the learning of many students at UBC and beyond.
Kate Kingsbury
Name Kate Kingsbury Faculty Arts Year(s) 2022 Detail Dr. Kate Kingsbury assigns no required textbook for ANTH 202A, but instead teaches with custom videos and freely available resources.
Agnes d’Entremont
Name Agnes d’Entremont Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2019, 2021, 2022 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 the LMS to the Open Problem Library. Agnes says of […]