Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) 2025
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The Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) is a three month flexible and blended program that will help you develop foundational knowledge of Open Scholarship, Open Education, and Open Research. In POSE, we’ll be exploring how open copyright licenses, collaborative practices, and connected technologies have the potential to lower barriers to knowledge by making (more…)
Evaluating TLEF, OER and SaP Projects – May 14 or 15
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Online This is a single session being offered at two different date/time options to accommodate varying schedules. You only need to attend one of the sessions, as the content will be the same in both. Evaluation activities are important to think about throughout the life of your TLEF, OER or SaP project, as evaluation allows (more…)
Accessibility Drop-In: May 22, 2025
Series: Accessibility Online Open Education
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Online Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible and barrier free for all learners? Join us for an informal drop-in where you can chat with accessibility consultants, educational designers, and colleagues about accessibility. The accessibility drop-ins are for anyone who is developing course content or open educational resources (OER) and who is (more…)
Open UBC Working Group – May 2025
Series: Online Open Education
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Online The Open UBC Working Group, which is composed of faculty, students, and staff, meets regularly to advise, communicate, and partner on open education and scholarship activities and projects happening at UBC. In addition to serving as a place of community for those interested in various areas of open scholarship, the working group develops projects (more…)
Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science – June 17, 2025
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Online As in many fields, applied research in education is facing serious questions about the replicability of its findings — and further, some ponder whether findings should be expected to replicate in the first place. In education, a particularly vexing challenge is the variability of learners and learning settings, and it is a legitimate question (more…)
POSE Open Research Chat: How Generative AI (GenAI) Impacts Perceptions of Critical Thinking Skills and Practices
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Online Open Research emphasizes the importance of transparency for replicability and reproducibility of research, which can advance the overall impact of the work. Transparency includes developing open workflows, which show the steps taken and decisions made over the course of a research project: from conception to publication. Transparency of project processes and datasets (e.g., methodologies (more…)
Open UBC Working Group – June 2025
Series: Online Open Education
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Online The Open UBC Working Group, which is composed of faculty, students, and staff, meets regularly to advise, communicate, and partner on open education and scholarship activities and projects happening at UBC. In addition to serving as a place of community for those interested in various areas of open scholarship, the working group develops projects (more…)
Gen AI and Open Educational Resources (OER) in Teaching and Learning
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Online Join us for an interactive online workshop where we will explore the challenges, contradictions, and opportunities at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). In this session we will discuss the potential of AI in generating dynamic content, including interactive textbooks, and its potential in developing open educational resources and (more…)
POSE Open Education Discussion and Program Wrap Up: Envisioning the Future of Open in Higher Education
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Online Over the past two decades, the open education and scholarship movement has championed ideals of accessibility, collaboration, and democratization of knowledge. However, as highlighted in The Paradox of Open manifesto, the digital landscape has evolved in ways that both support and challenge these ideals. The concentration of digital power among a few platforms, the (more…)