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    This website was developed to host open education resources (OER) generated by the Flexible Learning Project for the Environment and Sustainability Program in the Department of Geography at UBC. Materials posted on this website typically are under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. We invite members of the geography community to submit OER that we will evaluate to potentially host on this website.

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    Using rapidly evolving 360 degree filming and photography technologies, instructors, TAs, and students have created virtual reality and augmented reality fieldtrips and tours that examine a variety of topics from natural hazards throughout the region to the historical geography of downtown Vancouver.

  • Supporting Authentic Learning

    We are committed to principles of Open Pedagogy - creating effective learning experiences that rely on and result in openly-licensed educational resources. As a result, many of our students generate public scholarship that we are able to share. Please explore student generated work at http://environment.geog.ubc.ca/.

What we have been up to…

Stanley Park Virtual Field Trip: UBC Geography and the new UBC Emerging Media Lab

Grand Opening: New Emerging Media Lab Space

March 20, 2019

We are now only one week away from the grand opening of the Emerging Media Lab’s new space in Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, happening on Tuesday, March 26th, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m!   Through collaborations amongst UBC IT, UBC Library, and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, there is now a more public and […]

Stanley Park Virtual Field Trip

The Technology of Virtual Reality This Geography VR project is utilizing cutting-edge innovative technologies. Virtual reality is an expanding platform that has grown ever since it’s first introduction, and is the key innovation that we will be utilized within this project. Photogrammetry and other technologies were also used, combining the best and newest innovations to […]

A Guide To Capturing and Preparing Photogrammetry For Unity

Working in collaboration with The Emerging Media Lab and Metanauts ( a dynamic small Vancouver VR start-up), we have been working to create VR field trips that entail photo realistic interactive environments built using photogrammetry techniques, and showcased with the HTC Vive running in Unity.   In order to achieve this we have been using hand […]

Open Pedagogy Workshop for Open Access Week 2016

November 19, 2016

These workshop slides on open pedagogy and open science are openly-licensed as CC BY 4.0. Download the slides here. For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth. ~Plutarch?  In my […]

Faculty Interviews: Learning Design and Innovation

October 3, 2016

Instructors reflect on what it means to be an educator at UBC, and how they have been able to innovate and design good learning environments both inside and outside of the classroom.

Announcing FieldPress an OER plugin for WordPress

July 8, 2016

Today, we are excited to announce the beta release of a WordPress plugin that we have been developing for the last six months! FieldPress is a WordPress plugin that allows instructors to create and manage field trips online. This plugin provides instructors with a user-friendly environment to build field trips, add multimedia content, create assessments and manage students activity. FieldPress is an […]

How Flexible is Flexible Learning?

July 4, 2016

Flexible learning encompasses a wide variety of teaching philosophies and strategies centred on providing students with more responsibility, opportunity and choice in how, what, where and when they learn (Collis and Moonen, 2011; Arfield et al., 2013). As geographers, we were naturally curious about the where and when aspects of flexible learning, but found that both of these […]

Open Educational Resources for GIScience

June 30, 2016

At the 2016 Festival of Learning, Arthur Gill Green and Elissa Liu presented their work developing OER QGIS modules for students learning Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The presentation can be found below with links to the first of three modules for learning QGIS. We will be releasing all of these modules in July 2016. We welcome […]

The Why, When, and Where of Virtual Reality in Education

The Why, When, and Where of Virtual Reality in Education At the 2016 Festival of Learning, we presented some of our ongoing work on virtual and augmented reality open educational resources for teaching and learning geography. The slides and a description of our session are available below. We proposed a conceptual framework for understanding the […]

Best Practices for Developing OER Ancillary Resources for Open Textbooks

What are the best practices for developing OER ancillary materials? And does a lack of ancillary resources impact open textbook adoption?  At the 2016 Festival of Learning, the BCcampus Open Education Faculty Fellows came together to compare notes on this topic. Our own Arthur Gill Green (UBC), Jennifer Kirkey (Douglas College) and Rod Lidstone (Camouson College) […]
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Department of Geography, Environment & Sustainability Program
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Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
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