This poster presentation focuses on the creation and impact of Writing Place, an open online textbook for a multi-section first-year undergraduate scholarly writing course taught in the Faculties of Land & Food Systems and Forestry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The overall goal of Writing Place is to support students in making meaningful contributions to scholarly conversations in their disciplines, and to consider how to share their research beyond the university. The objectives are to provide an accessible, interactive and free resource to increase equity among diverse learners; to support a decolonial approach to scholarly writing by including Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and questions for reflection about the connections between writing and place; to weave in student and marginalized voices throughout each chapter; and to support student self-efficacy and persistence.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Reflect on how they might create an open online textbook for use in their own context
- Consider how they might integrate or adapt Writing Place: A Scholarly Writing Open Online Textbook for use in their scholarly writing classrooms
- Consider the important process of reconciliation and decolonization through the creation and use of open education resources that challenge colonial norms and practices.
