How Do I Get Started? Creating Safer Learning Environments for Indigenous Students in STEM at UBC
Author(s):Frances Butterfield and Ashley Welsh Description:This resource is meant to provide advice and resources for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) instructors on how to ‘get started’ when working to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing into their curriculum and practices as a means to create safer learning environments for Indigenous students. It may also be useful for people facilitating these types of conversations in STEM departments and contexts or by anyone who may be interested in the subject.
Biochemistry within Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling Figures
Author(s): Lindsay Rogers
Description: A collection of open figures for visualizing electron transport chains functioning within the global nitrogen cycle and the global carbon cycle.
Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground
Author(s): Ayaka Yoshimizu and Saeko Suzuki
Description:Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground is an open educational resource that engages transpacific histories of interracial sex, intimate labour, and migration—that is, the undercurrent of imperial expansion and settler colonialism in the pacific region throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Pathology: From the Tissue Level to Clinical Manifestations and Inter-professional Care Pathology:
Author(s):Jennifer Kong, Helen Dyck
Description:This multimedia resource provides the science behind the disease that a health care professional is managing and an explanation of the signs and symptoms a patient is experiencing, starting at the tissue level.
3D Anatomical Specimen Collection
Author(s):Claudia Krebs, Monika Fejtek
Description:A collection of over 100 3D anatomical specimens and models, created using a novel student-developed process that combines photogrammetry and laser scanning. These are fully interactive 3D models with optional labels.
Clinical Anatomy
Author(s): Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, Claudia Krebs, Marianne Brophy, Kim Campbell, Simone Gruenig, Melanie Willson, Flaviana Vieira, Nicole Bernardes, Janet Currie, Thayanthini Tharmaratnam, Carrie Miller, Olivia May Holuszko, Paige Blumer, & Monika Fejtek. (2020).
Description:This resource provides foundational knowledge for healthcare professionals related to the physiology of lactation.
Scientific Writing for Health Research
Author(s): Ehsan Karim, Dahn Jeong, Fardowsa Yusuf
Description: This website has a focus on scientific communication and manuscript writing, and provides a a step-by-step educational guide on how to write scientific articles for peer-reviewed journals.
Rock the Boat: Using Theatre to Reimagine Graduate Supervision
Author(s):Susan Cox, Michael Lee, Matthew Smithdeal, Tala Maragha
Description:Rock the Boat is an open-access multimedia resource designed to provoke dialogue about graduate supervision relationships within universities, and their impact on student and faculty wellbeing.
Open Case Studies
Author(s): Daniel Munro, Christina Hendricks, Kevin Doering, Will Engle, Rie Namba, Erin Fields, Deb Chen, Lucas Wright
Description: This project has brought together faculty and students from across departments and Faculties to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource on sustainability and environmental ethics. The structure and open nature of this resource will allow faculty and students to contribute to and provide commentary on a collection of case studies through the lens of their respective academic disciplines. The resource has been developed using the UBC Wiki and will be continued to be built upon throughout the project.
Analytics@Sauder Open Learning Resources
Author(s): Gene Moo Lee, Steven Shechter, Martha Essak, Chunhua Wu, Sunah Cho,
Elisabeth Chin, Zhen Mu, Rob Peregoodoff
Description:
UBC Business Analytics Open Learning Resource is a collection of open-source business analytics tools and resources to enhance data analysis and meta-skills for business analytics professionals of all skill levels — including students in UBC Sauder School of Business Master of Business Analytics, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Commerce, and Master of Management programs.
The Mission, the Message, and the Medium – Science and Risk Communication in a Complex World
Author(s):Chelsea Himsworth, Kaylee Byers, and Jennifer Gardy
Description:This textbook covers many of the principles of science communication, as well as the theory and practice of risk communication. The content is divided into three main sections: 1) the ‘mission’ (why you are communicating), 2) the ‘message’ (what you are communicating), and 3) the ‘medium’ (how you are communicating).
