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I think open educational resources which are introduced in the Program for Open Scholarship and Education, such as "BCcampus Open Textbook Repository" and "OASIS: Openly Available Sources Integrated Search", are really excellent and useful as teaching and learning materials and as practices. "BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 6" from "BCcampus Open Textbook Repository" introduces exercises for learning English, such as "Find a Bold Word and Look Up the Meaning in the Dictionary", "Word Patterns", "Grammar Rule", "Reading Strategy and Check your Understanding" and "Writing Task". "OASIS: Openly Available Sources Integrated Search" provides a variety of online educational resources which can improve teaching and learning practices. I really hope the online educational resources from open access, open research and open education units can be used and shared in English classes.

Christine Pan

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I've come across courses that require students to purchase new textbooks so that they can complete graded coursework only accessible via a code provided in the newest edition of the textbook. I'd like to take a more open and accessible approach to this by finding OER. I will research open resources used by other instructors in the field, including textbooks and questions, and I will adapt the resources I find to my specific course. I think this approach greatly increases the accessibility of a course and tailors materials to the class.

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Students may benefit from having opportunities to extend their work beyond just coursework or it being used as examples for future classes. I really like others' idea of a repository for example for essays for class assignments or opportunities to publish in undergraduate journals.

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A teaching and learning practice I’m involved in that isn’t as open as it could be is my faculty-facing web content and the instructional resources I help coordinate on topics such as research assessment, open scholarship, and academic integrity.

I could make these more open in a few ways:

Package elements together - like my guides, templates, activities and prompts from sessions I have presented - as shareable OER modules rather than just internal web pages.

I could record or use more clear notes that could be shareable to may my workshops available as open modules that other librarians/faculty could integrate into their teaching.

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As some others have mentioned, I also wish course information were more accessible. At UBC, it’s currently difficult to view most syllabi unless you’re already enrolled in the course. Having open access to syllabi would be very helpful for students considering a course, since they could review the detailed content and required or recommended textbooks in advance. It would be great if the university repository could create a space to make this information available. To begin exploring this idea, I would reach out department admin staff as well as librarians at the university.

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I advocate for instructors to use open resources if they’re creating a coursepack, often eliminating the need for coursepacks altogether. Typically, the resources they’re looking to include are available via library resources or are openly available and they’re just not aware. This helps alleviate the financial barriers students may face for accessing course materials.

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Course information such as the syllabus, expected outcomes, and resources such as installing tools such as R and R Studio are often hosted on Canvas, which requires registration and enrollment. I could host this type of material on a website instead, so that individuals are able to see what the course is about and access these resources beyond just their time in the course.

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A course that I've helped teach in the past currently only posts its syllabus on the LMS for students who are already enrolled in the course to read. I think providing this document as an OER could help students considering taking this course make a more informed decision. For example, the course exclusively uses readings provided to the students as pdf's so it could be helpful for students to see that there's no expensive textbook associated with the course. Making the syllabus an OER could also help educators at other institutions with planning similar courses. To get started on this I could:

Research departmental guidelines on making syllabi openly available

Obtain the appropriate Creative Commons license

Explore options of websites to post or link the syllabus to

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I have been a lab instructor for many years and I continually develop new labs and related dry lab assignments. While I have published one of these in an educational journal which is behind a paywall, I now see that moving to OER makes far more sense in providing these to others. Some of these assignments/activities were built by me de novo so they would be relatively easy to convert to OER. The key steps in doing this would be to decide which platform to use after looking through some options. After that I can dive in and make this an OER. I am excited to do this.

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Publishing student-created study resources or subject reference primers

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Publishing student-created study resources or subject reference primers

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I was thinking broadly about the future utility of both traditional essays and in-class exams and how to translate those materials that students generate while producing these more traditional assignments into a more open form.

Make a list of different media/formats that students could engage with to create a resource that both demonstrates their own research or study process and serve as reference material for other students in the future (E.g. a blog post or mini-primer on a topic, a podcast, a video, a slide deck)

Research resources students could use to supplement their materials for each media type. E.g. CC-licensed audio tracks, images, and media tools for building their materials.

Make list of possible platforms with multimedia support that could be used to make these materials open (e.g. Wordpress)

Give students the option to opt-in or opt-out to share their resource with others.

Encourage students to cite other students resources in other projects.

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I would like to introduce a project where students create online presentations rather than final papers. Students would be asked to CC license their slide deck and have the option of posting them to a Class Wiki Page created by myself.

I am comfortable creating and maintaining UBC Wiki, so the support would be around understanding the CC licensing process and trying it out myself

I would research examples from other classes of what software is available for student use to create and narrate their presentations freely while maintaining anonymity

It would be optional if these are shared on the group Wiki or let them agree to the page being public for a certain amount of time before being taken down

I think this would encourage the student ownership through CC licensing process and sharing with others

Would be a great resource for future students and potential project to let other student add to and learn CC attribution

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In scoping a student project to work with AI tools for transcription output there are a number of steps I would take to ensure that the project aligns with OER guidelines, including:

Research more widely in OER repositories to find teaching content that will benefit the project

Ensure that the transcription platform and/or AI tools meet the student privacy regulations for information to be stored in Canada

Work with the student directly to ensure that they fully understand the implications of sharing their work

Encourage and support the student to make the project documentation publicly available in UBC Wiki or UBC Blogs, or by another acceptable method that the student identifies

Discuss CC licenses with the student for their final project output and help select an appropriate license for their work

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I run a term-long simulation for my busies ethics class. I am thinking of a final reflective assignment that could be shared, with the prompt: “What do I wish I had known before starting the simulation?” Write a letter to a future student that gives honest, respectful advice on how to approach the simulation—ethically, strategically, and as a learner.

Steps:

Apply for a CC licence for myself

Check with department if this is OK from their persective.

for the assignment I'd need to do these steps:

A Creative Commons license (e.g., CC BY) students can choose to apply if they consent to sharing their work

Rubric or grading criteria that emphasizes clarity, insight, usefulness—not formality or jargon

Create a Google Form, Padlet, or discussion board where students can opt in to share their letter publicly - first among class members (see below for later).

Add a field where they can select a Creative Commons license (maybe use a dropdown with: "CC BY," "CC BY-NC," etc.).

Select a few strong student letters (with permission) and publish them in the LMS (w/a brief intro and link to the assignment prompt) as part of the next year's running of the course.

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I would like to ransform a traditional essay assignment into an open pedagogy project where students edit Wikipedia so their efforts have value beyond the course.

Research examples from other courses or instructors that have done Wikipedia assignments.

Think about what support I would need to take on this assignment.

Think about what support and scaffolding my students would need.

Think about any risk or privacy aspects that may need to be addressed.

Sign up for a Wikipedia account and make some edits so I have a better understanding of the processes.