Open Education
Open Educational Resources
Last Updated: 19 June 2026Adapted from BCcampus, shared with a CC-BY designation. What are Open Educational Resources? BCcampus shares its definition of open educational resources (OER): “teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them.” OER are teaching resources that have an open-copyright licence…
Open Research
Last Updated: 19 June 2026Adapted from Open UBC, with a CC-BY-SA Designation. What is Open Research? Open Research is the effort to make the process, engagement, and results of research openly and freely available when feasible and appropriate. In the context of reproducibility, open research may be referred to as open science; for knowledge translation and inclusive research, it…
Open Pedagogy
Last Updated: 19 June 2026Adapted from BCcampus, shared with a CC-BY designation. What is Open Pedagogy? To define open pedagogy, we need to break it down to its two components, open and pedagogy: Open, in this instance, refers to open educational resources (OER) – defined by UNESCO as “any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced…