About the Authors

Will is engaged with projects that leverage emerging technologies and pedagogies to support open learning. As a strategist for open education initiatives, he has worked on a range of initiatives that have included helping to support open pedagogy-based assignments that emphasize students as collaborators in the production of knowledge, the effective integration of open resources into individual courses, the development of UBC’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and learning analytics hackathons for undergraduate students. With a Master’s degree in library science, Will is interested in supporting the removal of barriers that limit access to education and knowledge.

Erin Fields (she, her, hers) is the Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of British Columbia Library, located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.   Erin supports a number of courses engaging in open educational resource development and open pedagogy, including course assignments contributing to Wikipedia, developing social justice zines, reviewing case studies, and publishing open-access texts found in the Open UBC Text Catalogue.

Donna Langille (she/her/they/them) lives and works as an uninvited settler on the unceded traditional territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. They are a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBCO, working under the supervision of Fiona P. McDonald (Anthropology) and Emily Christina Murphy (Digital Humanities). She is the Open Education Librarian, as well as the subject liaison librarian for film studies, theatre, media studies, and the digital humanities at the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO). In 2019, she obtained her Master of Information Studies from McGill University. Prior to this degree, she earned her Honours B.A. in English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from Simon Fraser University. They also hold a diploma in Film Production from Capilano University. As a queer scholar, they are interested in reframing the way we observe and acknowledge queer histories in relation to and with feminist technologies.

Leila Malkin (she/her) is the Scholarly Communications Assistant at the University of British Columbia Library, located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. Her work spans open education and open access initiatives, with a focus on supporting the development and publication of open educational resources, including open textbooks in Pressbooks. She also contributes to campus open access services, helping to ensure that teaching materials and research outputs can be shared more widely.

Rie designs, develops, supports and maintains resources to facilitate the use of open practices (specifically Wiki and WordPress) in teaching and learning. Rie also supports a variety of web resources development projects including the Learning Commons project, the Digital Tattoo project, and the Open UBC project. Rie is also part of the stewardship committee member of the ETUG (Educational Technology Users Group).

Stephanie Savage is a Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian at UBC Library. In her current role, she provides copyright expertise to the UBC community and helps develop open initiatives on campus and support researchers in disseminating their research as widely as possible.

Trish is an Evaluation and Research Consultant at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC-Vancouver. Her work involves providing guidance and support to instructors and staff evaluating teaching and learning practices. She also assists in the co-ordination of the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL). This support comes in a variety of forms, including: facilitating workshops, assisting with research design, conducting data analyses, and bolstering the SoTL community at UBC.

Lucas supports faculty and staff in integrating technology in their teaching and learning practice. He is an adult learning instructor with more than 15 years of experience teaching adults online, face-to-face and in blended contexts. He has a keen interest in blended learning, open education and the role of learning portfolios in teaching and learning. Lucas supports professional development programs at CTLT including the Instructional Skills workshop, Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment, the Learning Technology Hub and the edX Studio sessions.