Meet this year’s OER Excellence and Impact award recipients

The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work by faculty in Vancouver and the Okanagan who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources (OER) in credit courses at UBC.

The recipients were selected based on their overall excellence in creating, revising or using OER in teaching and learning; the impact of their OER work on students, including addressing the affordability of educational materials; and their contribution to the greater open education community at UBC.

This year's recipients are as follows:

UBC Vancouver: Individual award

• Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

UBC Vancouver: Group award

• Dr. Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
• Dr. Simon Lolliot, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

UBC Okanagan: Individual award

• Dr. Derrick R. Wirtz, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts 

UBC Okanagan: Group award

• Dr. Robin Young, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
• Dr. Lauren Dalton, Senior Instructor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Oregon State University)
• Heather Ng-Cornish, Scientific Illustrator and Master’s Student in Science Communication (Laurentian University)

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