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 […]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) […]
Upcoming free workshops on open science and virtual reality field trips
April 21, 2016
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 […]Student Led Technology Assisted Field Trips: Challenges, prospects, and best practices
April 1, 2016
Presentation Given At: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2016 Presenters: Dr. Loch Brown, Dr. Arthur “Gill” Green, Dr. Derek Turner Date Presented: March 31, 2016 Link: http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=73008 Abstract: Field trips have long been recognized as an effective way for students from a range of disciplines to gain hands-on experience in […]The Pedagogy of Open Science: Impacts of the ‘Open Turn’ on Geographic Research, Teaching, and Learning
Presentation Given At: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2016 Presenters: Dr. Arthur “Gill” Green, Dr. Sally Hermansen, Dr. Loch Brown, Dr. Derek Turner, Date Presented: March 30, 2016 Link: http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=74903 Abstract: The open science movement responds to an urgent need to rethink the production and dissemination of scientific research in […]
Where in the World is Geographic Education? An examination of the spaces and places of learning
Presentation Given At: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2016 Presenters: Dr. Derek Turner, Dr. Arthur “Gill” Green, Dr. Loch Brown Date Presented: March 30, 2016 Link: http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=74982 Abstract: This research examines where and how students interact with learning technologies that are proliferating in geographical education. Changes in the way we […]
Using backchannel technology to enhance large lectures
November 14, 2015
Presentation Given At: 2015 Symposium on Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education Presenters: Dr. Derek Turner, Dr. Arthur “Gill” Green, Dr. Loch Brown Date Presented: November 13, 2015 Link: http://2015symposiumonscholarlyinquiryi.sched.org/event/31st/research-bites Abstract: Despite the revolution in teaching practices in higher education over the past few decades, courses with large lectures remain […]