Engaging Students with Open Educational Resources

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Open educational resources are educational materials (text, video, audio, and more) that are licensed to allow others to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute, and retain them free of cost. In this session we will discuss various kinds of open educational resources, including open textbooks, how to find OER for your courses, and the pedagogical benefits of creating and using OER in your teaching.

Facilitators: Christina Hendricks, Farnaz Badiee, Will Engle, Shawnna Parlongo, Daniel Munro, Jenna Omassi and Shawnna Parlongo

This function is part of the CTLT Summer Institute taking place from August 24-27, 2015.  This week long initiative will feature a series of workshops designed for new and developing faculty, staff, graduate students, teaching assistants, and anyone else in the UBC teaching community.  Explore and share fundamental teaching and learning practices that can be implemented into your instruction.  For a complete list of events, please click here