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Dreams of Open Education Health and Nutrition Resources
1. Dreams of Open Education Health and
Nutrition Resources
⢠a few cautious steps from
the Faculty of Land and
Food Systems at UBC
Cyprien Lomas
Director, Learning Centre
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
2. University of British Columbia
⢠40K students,
⢠11 schools & faculties
⢠have centralised /
decentralised support
⢠central units pushing a
simple solution
(WebCT)
3. more about UBC...
⢠centralised - decentralised
collaboration
⢠WebCT campus
⢠OfďŹce of Learning
Technologies is the owner
(and champion) of WebCT
4. UBC is the birthplace of WebCT
⢠WebCT used for everything...
⢠quot;just webCT itquot;
⢠recently switched over to Vista
5. UBC is the birthplace of WebCT
⢠WebCT used for everything...
⢠quot;just webCT itquot;
⢠recently switched over to Vista
6. The Faculty Mindset
⢠have WebCT for free...
⢠perceived as âup to dateâ
to be using WebCT
⢠anything else would take
more effort - therefore http://blogs.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/
not likely
7. Faculty use the following WebCT tools
⢠course content
(powerpoints / PDFs)
⢠discussion board
⢠gradebook
⢠quizzes
8. Faculty of Land & Food Systems
⢠running Sakai & Moodle servers (quietly)
⢠looking for people to test them out
9. Faculty of Land & Food Systems
⢠shotgun strategy to
changing culture
⢠Creative Commons
considerations
⢠intellectual
property
10. Faculty of Land & Food Systems
⢠would talk about âopenâ
only with very close,
trusted colleagues
⢠used with Permission from Bjorn Thomson
11. Food and Nutrition
⢠nutrition in Vietnam
⢠what are the
challenges?
⢠approached to talk
about potential
12. Came offering help
⢠instructors open to sharing
resources.. but
⢠donât have the vocabulary
for what âopenâ means
http://internationalnutrition.landfood.ubc.ca/