Arthur Gill Green
Open Pedagogy Workshop for Open Access Week 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 […]
Announcing FieldPress an OER plugin for WordPress
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 […]
Open Educational Resources for GIScience
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) […]
Annotated Bibliography 6: Open Science
This annotated bibliography summarizes a number of key readings related to open science with particular attention to readings relevant to geography and environmental studies. It includes a timeline that cites pivotal moments in the development of open science.
Upcoming free workshops on open science and virtual reality field trips
We are offering two free workshops on 2-3 May 2016 in collaboration with UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology: The Pedagogy of Open Science: The ‘Open Turn’ and Research, Teaching, and Learning The open science movement responds to an urgent need to rethink the production and dissemination of scientific research in contemporary society. Open […]
Featured: Working with PulsePress
While building out WordPress websites for several courses, we found that the social media-like functions of a discussion forum plugin called PulsePress (developed here at UBC but open to the world on WordPress) fulfilled many of our needs. In fact, the students, instructors, and TAs experience of this plugin was so positive that our work […]
Annotated Bibliography 5: Flexible Learning
This annotated bibliography summarizes a number of key readings related to flexible learning, with particular attention to readings relevant to geography and environmental studies.
Annotated Bibliography 4: Flexible Labour in the Academic Context
This annotated bibliography summarizes a number of readings related to the the flexible labour practices in academia – both in reference to faculty and to student labour.