UBC Forestry wishes to congratulate Dr. Suborna Ahmed, Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management, on being the recipient of the UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Individual Award.
About Suborna’s Research
As a dedicated educator, Suborna has focused on developing multiple free and openly licensed educational resources, including creating new open textbooks, practice quizzes, and other OERs in areas such as computing in natural resources, forest biometrics, statistics, and geospatial data analysis. She continuously fosters a collaborative environment for OER development by mentoring students.
In the development of OER materials, Suborna focuses on incorporating accessibility best practices to create resources with universal design principles, ensuring that they are usable and inclusive for a diverse range of learners. For instance, she designs interactive tools and digital textbooks with screen-reader compatibility and user-friendly interfaces. Suborna’s commitment to accessibility, as well as her attention to incorporating inclusive language and diverse examples, underscores her dedication to creating equitable learning environments through OERs.
About the UBC Open Education Resources (OER) Excellence and Impact Awards
The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC.
Recipients are 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.