Consultancy Areas
- Integrate open education practices into Geography, GIScience, and Environmental Science curriculum.
- Develop educational curriculum for environmental management, GIScience, and agricultural development research capacity in low-resource contexts.
- Design geographic information systems and conduct GIScience research for human rights and peacebuilding.
Media Coverage
UBC students turn Stanley Park into Virtual Reality social experience. Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver. 12 May 2017. En Francais: https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/des-manuels-de-cours-entrent-dans-la-modernite/ | In English: https://roundhouseradio.com/2017/05/13/ubc-students-turn-stanley-park-virtual-reality-social-experience/
Virtual reality and augmented reality field trips funded by OER grants. BCcampus. 10 May 2017. https://bccampus.ca/2017/05/10/virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-field-trips-funded-by-oer-grants/
What is Open Pedagogy? Invited contribution to April Open Perspective Open Perspectives for the Year of Open. Open Education Consortium. April 2017. https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-pedagogy/
The open educational resources movement is redefining the concept of online textbooks. University Affairs/Affaires universitaires. 04 April 2017. http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/open-educational-resources-movement-redefining-concept-online-textbooks/
Open Dialogues: How to Practice Responsible Pedagogy. UBC CTLT. 29 February 2016. http://ctlt.ubc.ca/2016/02/29/open-dialogues-how-to-practice-responsible-pedagogy/ Also at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Uu_MYxAYY
B.C. celebrates student savings through the B.C. Open Textbook Project. BC Ministry of Advanced Education. 04 September 2016. https://news.gov.bc.ca/11929
Faculty advocates helping to spread the OER movement across B.C. BCcampus. 16 February 2016. https://goo.gl/CXdN3s
Book Sprints at Open Education Conference. BookSprints. 16 December 2015. http://www.booksprints.net/2015/12/book-sprints-at-open-education-conference/
New small farms? Not so easy, residents discover. Rocky Mountain Goat. 19 Aug 2014. http://www.therockymountaingoat.com/2014/08/new-small-farms-not-so-easy-residents-discover/
Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners. The Tyee. 05 August 2014. http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/08/05/Robson-Valley-Absentee-Farm-Owners/
Open Education Advocacy – Invited Talks, Keynotes, and Workshops
I am an open education advocate. I believe that open education practices have the potential to make improvements in pedagogical approaches and radical impacts on political economies of teaching and learning. Below are examples of my open education advocacy work.
Open Education Resources
As a faculty member, I continue to develop a number of open educational resources. As an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Geography at UBC, I also work with many students on open pedagogy projects and help manage a website (open.geog.ubc.ca) that hosts open education resources for use in geography and environmental studies. The below links show some of these open education resources that I have created with colleagues and learners.
