2025 Open Access Week

 

UBC Open Access Week Events

Open Access Week is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, Open UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in as well as guests from local and global community. All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.

Please click on the below links for more information and registration details for each event.

Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources

• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
• Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Location: Online

  Sharing & Discoverability – Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources

• Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2025
• Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
• Location: Online

  OER Accessibility Drop-In

• Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
• Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Location: Online

  OER Fund General Information Session

• Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
• Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Location: Online

  Designing Interactive OER and Course Content with H5P

• Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
• Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
• Location: Online

  Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction

• Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
• Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
• Location: Online

  Writing Your OER Fund and TLEF Evaluation Section

• Date: Thursday, October 22, 2025
• Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
• Location: Online

  Using the UBC Wiki to Enhance Student Learning Through Open Pedagogy

• Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
• Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
• Location: Online

  Copyright and Licensing in Open Educational Resources

• Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
• Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Location: Online

  Participatory Publishing – Zine Assignments as Open Pedagogy Online

• Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
• Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
• Location: Online

  Introduction to Podcasting

• Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
• Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
• Location: Online

Creating Accessible OER and Course Materials

• Date: November 4, 2025
• Time: 10:00am – 11:30pm
• Location: Online

Please visit the Open UBC Site for more information about open scholarship at UBC.