Third-party Open Education Resources#

See also UBC’s OER group for guidelines related to open education and open research resources and practices.

This is a representative list (not exaustive) of Open Ed. Resources at UBC for math, physics, compsci, EOAS, etc.

  1. Listing of open resources used at UBC is in the 2021 snapshot of all UBC OERs. Its Appendix A is a sample of open and freely available resources used at UBC, listed by course, and with links to each item. SEE ALSO file “opened-UBC.xlsx” in QuEST folder “curriculum development”.

  2. UBC OER examples here, but some pointers are out of date. However a list of “useful” or “inspirational” resources would be worth while. An example is the EOAS Phyto’pedia - The Phytoplankton Encyclopaedia Project.

  3. Several collections from UBC-GIF are examples of open resources used in EOAS but which are not clearly visible.

    1. GPG – Geophysics for practicing geoscientists (applied geophysics “text”)

    2. gpgLabs – Jupyter Notebook (Python) based interactive apps for all applied geophysics methods & concepts

    3. IAG – Inversion for applied geophysics, an interactive open text akin to GPG.

    4. Others at https://geosci.xyz/ - EM geophysics, ToolKit, SimPeg, all with GitHub repos. (Ref Lindsey Heagy. )

  4. Open source texts & problem sets for calculus I, II, III, IV from Math, UBC: the CLP Calculus Textbooks. Source code for all texts and problem sets are available on GitHub.

  5. The BC based “Physical Geology”, via BCcampus.

  6. Computer science’s UBC edX Software Development Program Materials.

    1. These represent a complete certificate-based program of 6 courses at edX which can be taken for a fee. The fee results in graded work and success yields a “certificate” approach to accreditation. However materials appear to be freely available.

    2. This deserves investigating – can/should EOAS be making use of these for teaching, or generating these for revenue or reputation?

    3. Physics uses a range of OpenStax textbooks.

  7. Seismological Facility for advancement of geoscience - SAGE.

  8. Geodesy Facility for advancement of geoscience - GAGE.