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 […]
Gregor Kiczales – MOOCs and On-Campus Learning
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. What will higher education become as the MOOC innovation era plays out? Setting dire predictions aside it seems likely that students will have a vast range of resources for learning at their disposal. With MOOCs, MOORs, badge systems, learning communities […]
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 […]