Paul Stacey – Open Freedoms / Open Practices
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Contemporary open education practices are based on free software and free culture movements. Join Paul Stacey from Creative Commons as he explores the extent to which Open Educational Resources, MOOC’s, open access, and other open education innovations are embodying and […]
David Vogt and Christina Hendricks – The Whys and Hows of Open: Transforming Learning Through Open Pedagogies and Practices
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Open education can be understood as a collection of practices that utilize online technology to freely share knowledge and to increase access to learning. The creative act of designing an open course or project can also lead to new pedagogical […]
Erin Fields – The Future? Open Online Courses and the Library
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. Open access to research has become a core goal of academic libraries. The growth of open access initiatives, such as digital repositories, supports a very democratic notion of openly accessible publicly funded research. However, transitioning the support of open access […]
Mary Burgess – Open Textbook Workshop
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. In October 2012, the government of British Columbia announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 highest-impact first and second-year courses in the province’s public post-secondary system. This project has generated a lot of interest in […]
Vancouver Institute Series on cIRcle and IKBLC Webcast Page
Since 2009, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has webcasted select lectures from the Vancouver Institute. Past lectures can now also be found on UBC Library’s cIRcle’s Vancouver Institute community collections page.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Hazelton
This week our featured place, and Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room name, is Hazelton.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Kootenay River Room
Kootenay River Room, a large, bright and airy group study room (room 422) on the 4th floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Kootenay River
Ramachandra Guha – Ten Reasons why India will not and must not become a Superpower
Presented by International Development Research Centre and co-hosted by UBC and the Canada-India Foundation, there has been much talk of a coming Asian century, to be dominated by the economic strength and political assertion of China and India. This critically scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of India, and in particular the belief, held by […]
2nd Canadian Learning Commons Conference
Visit the conference website for links to presentations and more.