Will Engle
Bhushan Gopaluni
Name Bhushan Gopaluni Faculty Applied Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni is involved in the development of open chemical engineering resources across multiple courses, all of which support active learning through open-source and interactive course content in Jupyter Notebooks.
Andrew Owens
Name Andrew Owens Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Andrew Owen understands the burden that textbook costs can place on students, and provides free and accessible course materials for his students to use. He puts in significant labour to create online educational modules with quizzes and more, meaning that course materials are not only available […]
Azim Shariff
Name Azim Shariff Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Azim Shariff has used an open resources (including quizzes from the Noba Projec) rather than a paid textbook with the 225 students section of Psych102.
Jon Beasley-Murray
Name Jon Beasley-Murray Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray, Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of British Columbia, co-ordinated the Wikipedia educational project ‘Murder, Madness, and Mayhem’. The collective goals were to have students write a selection of articles on Latin American literature and bring the articles to featured article […]
Kathryn Grafton
Name Kathryn Grafton Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Kathryn Grafton has assigned a Wikipedia project in a Canadian Studies course, providing an excellent example of how students can get involved in revising and creating open educational resources. According to the Wiki Edu dashboard for the course, 45 student editors created 6 articles and revised […]
Michael Byers
Name Michael Byers Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Michael Byers does not use textbooks in his class, and has created a class website with links to all course materials that he uses. He believes in open access, and using open education as a form of knowledge sharing, and is committed to eliminating course material […]
M.V. Ramana
Name M.V. Ramana Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. M.V. Ramana used videos, online quizzes, news sources, and many open access articles as course materials for his class. He is also an advocate for open access and open education, imparting to students the value of online materials in accessibility and assistance with learning, as well […]
AMS Announces Call for 2024 Nominations for OER Champions
The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is proud to announce a call for for students and other members of the UBC community to nominate UBC OER Champions — the faculty, staff, and administrators who dedicate their time contributing to the use of open educational resources (OER) at UBC. The significant costs associated with learning materials have […]
AMS Announces Call for 2022 Nominations for OER Champions
The Alma Mater Society (AMS), alongside other University sponsors, is excited to announce that on November 30th, 2022, we will be hosting an event to honour those who work in Open Education at UBC. The call is now open for students and other members of the UBC community to nominate OER Champions — the faculty, […]
AMS Announces Call for 2021 Nominations for OER Champions
The Alma Mater Society (AMS), alongside other University sponsors, is excited to announce that on November 18th, 2021, we will be hosting an event to honour those who work in Open Education at UBC. The call is now open for students and other members of the UBC community to nominate “OER Champions” — the faculty, […]
Siobhán McPhee
Name Siobhán McPhee Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Siobhán McPhee works with open and emerging technologies, such as creating augmented reality apps for her courses or engaging her students in creating open resources, to expand the boundaries of education.”I see education as the ultimate equalizer,” she said. “Open is about that ability to take […]
Uma Kumar
Name Uma Kumar Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail Dr. Uma Kumar made a significant effort to create a learning environment that would be accessible to every student regardless of their socio-economic status in her GERM 426 class by ensuring the course work readings were all made available online.
Surita Jhangiani
Name Surita Jhangiani Faculty Education Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail Dr. Surita Jhangiani is a co-author on the first publishsed study of student perceptions of open textbooks in British Columbia (“Investigating the Perceptions, Use and Impact of Open Textbooks: A Survey of Postsecondary Students in British Columbia,” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, […]
Janette Bulkan
Name Janette Bulkan Faculty Forestry Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Janette Bulkan has been involved with the Open Case Studies project since its beginning in 2016. She has involved students in several of her courses in writing case studies about forestry and forest practices in many countries. She is also participating in a scholarship of teaching […]
Duncan McHugh
Name Duncan McHugh Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2019 Detail Duncan McHugh has been promoting Open Education for over 10 years in his class LFS400 and in the dozens workshops he has done in Land and Food Systems and for the rest of the campus. Not only does Duncan articulate the value of Open, […]
Judy Chan
Name Judy Chan Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Judy Chan’s Food, Nutrition and Health 200 course has involved students in creating open educational resources in Wikipedia-style articles on particular foods and posted them with a Creative Commons license on the UBC Wiki and in edited or created articles on specific foods […]
Sandra Brown
Name Sandra Brown Faculty Land and Food Systems Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Brown has used open resources in her courses as well as engaged in open pedagogies, such as asking her students to engage in Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add valuable knowledge science to the public domain.
Jon Festinger
Name Jon Festinger Faculty Law Year(s) 2019 Detail Jon Festinger has long been a thinker, advocate, and champion for open education at UBC. He created some of the earliest and longest running examples of open courses at UBC by sharing all class processes and content (including lectures) openly online and under a Creative Commons licenses. […]
Dean Giustini
Name Dean Giustini Faculty Library Year(s) 2019 Detail For 10+ years, Dean Giustini created an internationally-recognized and respected open source of information for information professionals on health librarianship (HLWiki). His Health Librarian WIKI (now retired) was a knowledgeable and dependable source for both national and international information professionals.
Claudia Krebs
Name Claudia Krebs Faculty Medicine Year(s) 2019, 2024 Detail Dr. Claudia Krebs teaches neuroanatomy and gross anatomy at UBC and has created high quality open educational resources for neuroscience and anatomy for UBC and the global community. These resources include syllabi, videos e-books, online modules, and interactive web materials. According to Dr. Krebs, “The more […]
Alan Mackworth
Name Alan Mackworth Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Prof. Mackworth has created a free online textbook as well as a site full of related openly licensed resources (AIspace.org). These freely available materials are used to teach Artificial Intelligence across several courses at UBC.
Andrew Rechnitzer
Name Andrew Rechnitzer Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2024 Detail Dr. Andrew Rechnitzer is one of the three faculty members in Mathematics behind the CLP series of free online texts used by thousands of UBC students every year. These top-quality resources are the primary references in the 4-stage calculus sequence MATH 100, 101, 200, 317. The […]
Cristina Conati
Name Cristina Conati Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Prof. Conati teaches CPSC322 which uses a freely available online textbook and openly licensed site with resources rather than paid materials.
David Poole
Name David Poole Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Prof. Poole has created a free online textbook as well as a site full of related openly licensed resources (AIspace.org). These freely available materials are used to teach Artificial Intelligence across several courses at UBC.
Elyse Yeager
Name Elyse Yeager Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021, 2024 Detail Dr. Elyse Yeager is one of the three faculty members in Mathematics behind the CLP series of free online texts used by thousands of UBC students every year. These top-quality resources are the primary references in the 4-stage calculus sequence MATH 100, 101, 200, 317. […]
Eric Cytrynbaum
Name Eric Cytrynbaum Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2022 Detail Dr. Eric Cytrynbaum has been in charge of MATH 102, and has set up the entire course to run on open content. Along with using his colleague Dr. Leah Keshet’s textbook, Dr. Cytrynbaum developed a large selection of open-ended homework problems, drawing on his background in […]
Giuseppe Carenini
Name Giuseppe Carenini Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Prof. Carenini teaches several courses that use freely available online textbook and open resources rather than paid materials.
Gregor Kiczales
Name Gregor Kiczales Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021, 2022 Detail 2021,2022: Professor Kiczales uses open-source materials in his courses including CPSC110. The materials include openly licensed video lectures, resource materials, and problem banks. 2019: Prof. Kiczales has long been a champion of using open and freely accessible learning materials at UBC. In his courses, […]
Jaclyn Stewart
Name Jaclyn Stewart Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Jaclyn Stewart has involved students in adapting material from several open textbooks for chemistry to create a new open textbook for an organic chemistry course, which will be published on the Pressbooks platform.
Joel Feldman
Name Joel Feldman Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Joel Feldman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, and one of the three faculty members in Mathematics behind the CLP series of free online texts used by thousands of UBC students every year. These top-quality resources are the primary references in the 4-stage calculus sequence MATH 100, 101, […]
Leah Keshet
Name Leah Keshet Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Leah Keshet has written two textbooks for first- and second-semester calculus for the life sciences. This textbook has been used in MATH 102 for three years now, with a yearly enrolment of about 1,000 students. With the text in a fairly stable, finalized state, she spent […]
Marcello Pavan
Name Marcello Pavan Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail Dr. Pavan is an early adopter of using open textbooks in his PHYS100 courses – he had used open textbooks in place of paid textbooks for several years.
Patrick Walls
Name Patrick Walls Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail Dr. Patrick Walls uses open resources in his teaching and has supported the use of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application that assists in the sharing of open resources that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text, at UBC.
Dragos Ghioca
Name Dragos Ghioca Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Dragos Ghioca has adopted only CLP open textbooks in his math courses, and takes an active role in pointing students to free-accessible studying resources.
Reid Holmes
Name Reid Holmes Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Reid Holmes has done outstanding research into teaching application-based software development for many years, including using OER on a publicly available github page.
Roland Stull
Name Roland Stull Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail Dr. Stull is a longtime creator and user of open resources in his teaching. His open textbook, Practical Meteorology, was one of the earliest open textbooks created and used at UBC as well as many other institutions. Dr. Stull also teaches ATSC113 a distance education course, […]
Russ Algar
Name Russ Algar Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Algar is a long time user of open resources. He has implemented an open textbook in his Chemistry course and co-developed the Alchemy online teaching and learning tool, which is open access at UBC.
Seckin Demirbas
Name Seckin Demirbas Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Demirbas is currently working on a free Introduction to Proofs textbook, for Math 200, together with Andrew Rechnitzer, a course which has several hundred enrollees each year.
Simon Bates
Name Simon Bates Faculty Science Year(s) 2019, 2021 Detail As both an instructor and as the Associate Provost, Teaching & Learning, Dr. Simon Bates has been a huge leader and supporter of open resources at UBC-V. He has used open textbooks in his courses, created open problem libraries to share assessment materials, and has engaged […]
Stefan Reinsberg
Name Stefan Reinsberg Faculty Science Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Stefan Reinsberg 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 was one […]
Barbara Lee
Name Barbara Lee Faculty Arts Year(s) 2019 Detail Working with Dr. Jonathan Verrett, Dr. Agnes d’Entremont has worked to develop and conDr. Barbara Lee, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, is developing a comprehensive open online educational toolkit that includes lecture materials, virtual simulation videos, and student assessments and evaluation frameworks for instructors […]
Christina Hendricks
Name Christina Hendricks Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Dr. Christina Hendricks has worked with the UBC student government to help implement their textbook broke campaigns as well as assist in helping them to achieve the first open policy statement in a tenure-track agreement at UBC. She is an advocate of open practice within her own […]
Jeff Miller
Name Jeff Miller Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Jeff Miller has been an advocate for open education and open practices in his work supporting the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund as well as more broadly at the institution. He has been instrumental in helping to set up the OER Fund, in collaboration with others at […]
Lucas Wright
Name Lucas Wright Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Lucas Wright has supported and advocated for open education at UBC Vancouver for many years. He was one of the creators and facilitators of the Teaching with WordPress open online course that ran in 2015 Lucas also created a website with short activities that were used in […]
Novak Rogic
Name Novak Rogic Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Novak Rogic has advocated for, implemented, designed, and supported both UBC Blogs and the UBC Wiki both of which have served the entire UBC audience for over a decade. Both platforms have been widely used by every Faculty and nearly all departments and allow faculty, staff, and […]
Richard Tape
Name Richard Tape Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Richard Tape has been instrumental in developing and supporting functionality on WordPress for teaching and learning, including supporting faculty who have used UBC Blogs to make their course materials publicly available. He cares deeply about ensuring that educational technology supports effective, inclusive and accessible learning: among other […]
Rie Namba
Name Rie Namba Unit CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail Rie Namba has supported open education at UBC Vancouver through her technical and web design work, such as on the redesigned Open UBC website, the Digital Tattoo site, as well as the UBC Wiki. Rie consults with and supports many faculty and staff using WordPress and Wiki, […]
Will Engle
Name Will Engle Faculty CTLT Year(s) 2019 Detail As the open education strategist for CTLT, Will has worked tirelessly in support of open education and open pedagogy in UBC courses. He has supported a number of open enabled classes, including the development of Wikipedia-based activities. He is one of the original Open UBC working group […]
Deb Chen
Name Deb Chen Faculty VPRI Year(s) 2019 Detail Deb Chen has been working on the Open Case Studies project since 2017, first as a graduate student assistant and then as a staff member at CTLT. She worked directly with faculty members interested in participating to brainstorm how they might use, adapt, or create open case […]
Erin Fields
Name Erin Fields Faculty Library Year(s) 2019 Detail Erin Fields has been an Open champion on campus for many years and has been integral to several open initiatives. Most recently she has volunteered significant time and energy to help get the recently announced OER Fund off the ground. She has also been an important “connector” […]