Event Description:
This session on participatory teaching will explore collaborative and interactive ways for creating and employing open educational resources. Renren Yang will introduce his open-access UBC Wiki project, in which dozens of students contribute to creating encyclopaedic and updated entries on Keywords in Chinese Popular Culture. Samuel Beswick will introduce his open-access casebook and quizzes on Tort Law, online teaching resources that professors and students around the world can utilise and rework. We invite community members to come and discuss the opportunities and obstacles to designing and using OER projects.
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Speakers:
Samuel Beswick is a private law scholar with primary research interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, remedies and privacy. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law. Does, and should, new “judge-made law” serve as precedent to past circumstances? He is also the editor of an open-access coursebook Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries (2021 CanLIIDocs 1859), which explores the law of civil wrongdoing through the themes of the rule of law (equality of officials and ordinary people under law) and comparativism (common law development through judicial conversations over time within and between jurisdictions).
Renren Yang researches 20th and 21st-century Chinese literature, film and popular culture, with a focus on the intersection between critical literary and media studies. His work centres on celebrity authorship, interface design, time-travel imagination and surveillance cinema in modern China.
- Allard School of Law
- General Public