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.
Fundamentals of Cell Biology
Author(s):Lauren Dalton and Robin Young, Heather Ng-Cornish (Illustrator)
Description:This textbook is focused specifically on the principles and concepts of a foundational Cell Biology course. The book takes a more conceptual approach that highlights how scientists study cells, and how to analyze and interpret experimental results.
Data Science: A First Introduction (Python Version)
Author(s):Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, Melissa Lee, Joel Ostblom, and Lindsey Heagy
Description: This textbook provides an approachable introduction to the world of data science. In this book, you will learn how to identify common problems in data science and solve them with reproducible and auditable workflows using the Python programming language.
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.
Data Science: A First Introduction (R Version)
Author(s):Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, and Melissa Lee
Description: This textbook provides an approachable introduction to the world of data science. In this book, you will learn how to identify common problems in data science and solve them with reproducible and auditable workflows using the R programming language.
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.
Animated Accounting
Author(s): Dr. Rajesh Vijayaraghavan, Dr. Sunah Cho, et al.
Description:These resources aims to improve students’ conceptual understanding of fundamental accounting principles while also developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Data Science for Kinesiology
Author(s): Hyosub Kim
Description:This open textbook is aimed primarily at students and researchers in Kinesiology who want to learn how to work with and make sense of data using Python.
Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences Exercise Book
Author(s): Paul Tsopméné
Description:This exercise book contains a wide variety of problems in integral calculus, linear algebra, and linear regression, with applications to differential equations, probability, and life sciences. Every problem has a very detailed solution, and the book is self-contained, as the summary for every concept is provided. The main goal of the book is to help students learn the material more efficiently and get better results.
Understanding Wildfires: A Case Study for British Columbia
Author(s):Raluca Radu, Aubree A. McAtee
Description:This case study explores the ways in which wildfire events impact individual health and livelihood from a micro, meso, and macro level. The case study walks the learner through an introduction to how climate change further exacerbates wildfire occurrence, alongside the myriad health impacts that stem from wildfire smoke exposure.
Matrix Algebra Exercise Book
Author(s): Paul Tsopméné
Description:The main goal of this exercise book is to help students learn the material more efficiently and get better results. The book contains problems with very detailed solutions, and it is self-contained, as the summary for every concept is provided.
Calculus II for Management and Economics Exercise Book
Author(s): Paul Tsopméné
Description:The main goal of this exercise book is to help students learn the material more efficiently and get better results. The book contains problems with very detailed solutions, and it is self-contained, as the summary for every concept is provided.
Calculus I for Management and Economics Exercise Book
Author(s): Paul Tsopméné
Description:The main goal of this exercise book is to help students learn the material more efficiently and get better results. The book contains problems with very detailed solutions, and it is self-contained, as the summary for every concept is provided.
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.
Undergraduate – Introductory Chemistry Flipped Classroom Modules
Author(s):Riley Petillion, W. Stephen McNeil, Tamara Freeman
Description:This learning activity is designed to be used in a large introductory chemistry course, as part of a larger module of learning activities that includes prior viewing of an interactive instructional video.
Undergraduate – Introductory Chemistry Guided Inquiry Activities
Author(s):Riley Petillion, W. Stephen McNeil, Tamara Freeman
Description:This guided inquiry learning activity is designed to be used in a large introductory chemistry course.
Undergraduate – Introductory Chemistry Context Study Activities
Author(s): Riley Petillion, W. Stephen McNeil, Tamara Freeman
Description:This learning activity is designed to be used in a large introductory chemistry course, as part of a larger module of learning activities that include a prior reading of a short background information document.
Chapman Learning Commons
Author(s): Chapman Learning Commons, UBC Library
Description:The Learning Commons website is an evolving collection of student-curated learning resources to support academic success and wellness.
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.
Digital Tattoo Project
Author(s):UBC Library, IKBLC, CLTC, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT)
Description:The goal of the Digital Tattoo project is to raise questions, provide examples and links to resources to encourage you to think about your presence online, navigate the issues involved in forming and re-forming your digital identity and learn about your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen.
Learner-Centered Syllabus Toolkit
Author(s):CLTC
Description:This toolkit provides questions for reflection, suggestions, and sample language for writing syllabi at UBC Vancouver.
Hindi Grammar Lecture Series
Author(s):Sunil Bhatt
Description:The Hindi Grammar Lecture Series with Sunil Bhatt is a YouTube video series created to help students learn Hindi as a second language. Each video will cover one grammar point, explaining it in detail and giving some example sentences. This resource is beneficial for students learning independently, as well as for use in the classroom.
FNH 200: Introductory Food Science Course Modules and Content
Author(s):Judy Chan
Description:Students are introduced to chemical and physical properties of foods; issues pertaining to safety; nutritive value and consumer acceptability of food, food quality and additives; food preservation techniques and transformation of agricultural commodities into food products; foods of the future.
The Japanese Women Directors Project
Author(s):Colleen Laird
Description:Japanese Women Director’s Project is a public-facing production of resources designed as educational materials that can be experienced individually or incorporated into a classroom syllabus. Each Digital Dialogue contains suggestions for additional viewings and readings, as well as sample discussion questions.
NERDCAT: A Clinician’s Guide to Appraising
Author(s): Ricky Turgeon, Blair Macdonald
Description:NERDCAT was designed to help clinicians make sense of clinical research and has two core components: (1) The NERDCAT appraisal checklists, which facilitate the systematic appraisal of clinical studies; and (2) detailed guidance on how to address the NERDCAT appraisal checklist questions, along with rationales, supporting empiric evidence where available, and examples.
Asking Scientific Questions
Author(s): Tara Ivanochko
Description:Six videos cover topics of pollination, sustainable fisheries, invasive species, wildfire management, water resources and alternative energy production. A series of in-class activities use these videos to practice asking scientific questions and aligning questions with data.
Physics and Astronomy Open Education Courses
Author(s): Georg Rieger, Stefan Reinsberg
Description:The Department of Physics & Astronomy currently have three large open courses in the undergraduate program: Introductory Physics (PHYS 100 – course + online labs), Dynamics and Waves (PHYS 117), and Electricity, Light and Radiation (PHYS 118).
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.
Soil Web 200
Author(s):Krzic, M., K. Wiseman, L. Dampier, S. Grand, J. Wilson and D. Gaumont-Guay
Description:SoilWeb200 provides students with online, interactive, graphical, video and text-based information to assist them in understanding fundamental soil science concepts. It also relates these concepts to various soil management issues. SoilWeb200 is used to support the lecture and lab-based teaching methods in the APBI 200 – Introduction to Soil Science course.
eNunciate!
Author(s):
Bryan Gick, Kathleen Currie Hall, Hotze Rullmann, Martina Wiltschko, Strang Burton, and many additional UBC language instructors.
Description:Through the practical use of novel ultrasound visual technology, these resources enable Speech Science and Linguistics students to become better speech therapists, vocal trainers, language teachers, and communicators.
PLP: An Introduction to Mathematical Proof
Author(s): Seçkin Demirbaş, Andrew Rechnitzer
Description: An Introduction to Mathematical Proof is a textbook on mathematical thinking, logic and proof-writing that emphasizes not only mathematical correctness, but clarity of exposition and the building of intuition that is so critical to constructing proofs.
Optimal, Integral, Likely: Optimization, Integral Calculus, and Probability for Students of Commerce and the Social Sciences
Author(s): Bruno Belevan, Parham Hamidi, Nisha Malhotra, Elyse Yeager
Description: Optimal, Integral, Likely is a free, open-source textbook intended for UBC’s course MATH 105: Integral Calculus with Applications to Commerce and Social Sciences.
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.
Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International Edition
Author(s):Charles Stangor, Rajiv Jhangiani, Hammond Tarry, Benjamin Cheung
Description:This is an adaptation by Benjamin Cheung of Principles of Social Psychology-1st International Edition for UBC Psych 308A.
Exploring Climate Change and Mental Health
Author(s):Natania Abebe
Description:This toolkit is designed for use by educators to empower students to think critically about the structural and socio-political inequities that affect them while centering climate change and mental health through embedded reflective exercises.
Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150
Author(s):Tristan R. Grunow, Naoko Kato
Description:Digital Meijis: Re-visualising Modern Japanese History at 150 is a curated and edited collection on the Meiji Period, pairing digitized materials and documents with historical narrative and interpretive analysis.
Writing Place: A Scholarly Writing Textbook
Author(s): Lindsay Cuff
Description:An accessible and inclusive scholarly writing textbook that empowers students to contribute to scholarly conversations in their disciplines and asks them to consider how their contributions can be shared with the communities beyond the university. Examples are specific to Land & Food Systems and Forestry.
Practicing and Presenting Social Research
Author(s): Oral Robinson, Alexander Wilson
Description:This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results.
Decolonizing the Engineering Curriculum
Author(s): Pamela Wolf, Alex Gonzalez, Curtis Rattray, Debalina Saha, James Shaw, Nika Martinussen, Ben Harris
Description: Decolonizing the Engineering Curriculum is a set of adaptable resources developed to enable Engineering faculty to include Indigenous reconciliation in engineering courses.
Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics
Author(s): Claire Yu Yan
Description:This open book is written with a goal to support students’ learning of fundamental concepts and engineering applications of classical thermodynamics. It features concise explanations of key concepts, step-by-step solutions to engineering examples, and interactive practice problems. The book is most suitable for a one-term, introductory engineering thermodynamics course at the undergraduate level. It may also be used as self-learning materials or a supplement to other thermodynamics books.
Statistics Labs for Psychology
Author(s): Zakary A. Draper
Description: This lab manual is intended as a resource for gaining experience (1) conducting statistical tests in R, (2) reporting results in APA style, and (3) interpreting those results in the context of a given study.
RMST 202: Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II, Modern to Postmodern
Author(s): Jon Beasly-Murray
Description: In this course, we read literary texts, mostly novels, originally written in French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The site comes with lectures for each text (as well as an introductory and concluding lecture) in video format, uploaded to YouTube; written transcripts are also provided. There are also conversation videos (also uploaded to YouTube) with other experts in the field. In addition there are many additional resources, not the least of which are the contributions of students, who post weekly responses to the reading. All this is organized both in terms of the authors covered and via a tag cloud of major concepts.
Physiology of Lactation
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.
Open Problem Bank for Physics (OPBP)
Author(s): Firas Moosvi, Jake Bobowski, John Hopkinson, Reza Khanbabaie
Description: The Open Problem Bank for Physics (OPBP) is meant to be used with introductory physics courses that are either calculus or algebra-based. It pairs nicely with the OpenStax College or University Physics textbooks developed by Rice University.
Introduction to the Nepali Language
Author: Binod Shrestha
Description: Introduction to the Nepali Language provides students with an introduction to basic Nepali vocabulary and grammar in order to respectfully engage in interactions that might take place in a community setting. It is designed as a self-paced, open access course and offers learners a basic introduction to the Nepali language, with lessons on script, grammar, basic vocabulary, and guidance on how to carry out a basic conversation.
Introduction to the Tibetan Language
Author(s): Sonam Rinchen Chusang
Description: Introduction to the Tibetan Language provides an introduction for students to study colloquial expressions in Lhasa Tibetan. It is designed as a self-paced, open access course and offers learners a basic introduction to the Tibetan Language, with lessons on script, grammar, basic vocabulary, and guidance on how to carry out a basic conversation.
Digital Himalaya Project
Author(s):Mark Turin, Alan Macfarlane
Description: The Digital Himalaya project preserves in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes, maps and rare journals.
HIST 396: North American Environmental History
Author(s): Tina Loo
Description:A UBC History course taught by Tina Loo that was part of the WikiMedia Foundation Canada Education Program, which is aimed at enlisting university faculty and students in the task of grounding Wikipedia articles in the existing scholarly literature. Reflections by the instructor available.
Arts One Open
Author(s): Jason Lieblang, Derek Gladwin, Jon Beasley-Murray, Robert Crawford, Jill Fellows, Christina Hendricks, Brandon Konoval, Deanna Kreisel, Renisa Mawani, Brian McIlroy, Kevin McNeilly, Gavin Paul, Arlene Sindelar, Caroline Williams
Description:Arts One Open provides Creative Commons licensed recordings and other material from lectures given by some of UBC’s most experienced and distinguished teachers. These instructors hope to provoke you to think in new ways about authors from Plato to Shakespeare, Defoe to Coetzee, and about issues such as knowledge, monstrosity, science, and politics.
