Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Attend one of the many Open Education events at UBC and UBC Library throughout March.
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons
Date & Location: March 18 at the Belkin Art Gallery
Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Date & Location: March 19 at the Western Front Society
Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Open Scholarly Practice
In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform or be applied to teaching and learning.
Date & Location: March 27, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301
Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m.
The Failure of Access: Rethinking Open Education
Join us to explore the goals, failures, and successes of open education. We’ll tackle such questions as: is open education succeeding in being a transformative movement that makes learning more accessible? What are the criteria and successes that should be used to measure if the open education movement is a success? What more needs to be done?
Date & Location: March 28, Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University, Room 1430
Time: 5:30 to 8 :45 p.m.
[citation needed] – Librarians Improving Wikipedia
Date & Location: March 30, Terrace Lounge, iSchool, 4th Floor IKBLC
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Join us in celebration of Open Education Week for “Librarians Improving Wikipedia.” For an hour we will work together to add reliable citations to Wikipedia articles. Come for as long as you can. Light snacks will be available.