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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
LAST201: Popular Culture in Latin America
Author: Jon Beasly-Murray
Description: LAST201 is an open exploration of the many facets of Latin American popular culture, from folk tales to the Internet, coca to lucha libre, Mexico to Argentina. We will investigate concepts and topics such as nationalism, class, gender, globalization, autonomy, and resistance. It is also an opportunity therefore to think more about culture in general, and popular culture in particular, viewed through a Latin American lens.
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.
LAST100: Intro to Latin American Studies
Author(s): UBC Department of Latin American Studies
Description:LAST100, “Introduction to Latin American Studies” provides an overview of the culture and society of Latin America from ancient to contemporary times, and from Argentina to Mexico. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the region is constructed and represented, and to the cultural politics of race, gender, and class.
Toolkit for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work
Author(s): Marie Nightbird, Kelly Allison
Description: This open toolkit includes five videos demonstrating basic communication skills and a teaching guide for instructors. The videos are a series of short vignettes of counselling sessions between a social worker and a client.
Digging into Canadian Soils – An Introduction to Soil Science
Author(s): Canadian Society of Soil Science
Description: Written entirely by members of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, “Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science” provides an introduction to the core disciplines of soil science, and introduces the concepts and vocabulary needed by students just beginning their soil science journey.
Scarfe Digital Sandbox
Author(s): Wendy Carr, Joanne Naslund and Yvonne Dawydiak
Description:The Scarfe Digital Sandbox is a virtual space for teacher candidates and faculty to explore technology integration. The openly licensed resources contains educational technology guides that highlight what the technology is, why it is relevant, and how to get started.
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Author(s):Jon Beasley-Murray
Description:LAST100, “Introduction to Latin American Studies” provides an overview of the culture and society of Latin America from ancient to contemporary times, and from Argentina to Mexico.
