Events

The Learning Centre hosts an exciting program of events including academic lectures and seminars, symposiums and conferences, workshops, presentations and much more.

Latest Events Events Calendar

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  May

  4

  Innovations in Learning Design: Choose Your Own Learning

  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar (Room 2.22 A/B), 11:00 am

  This session will focus on three innovative learning projects: Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education, a massive open online course, Sky, Water, Earth, a collection of free, online, self-paced learner activities, and Mattermost, an open source and UBC-hosted tool that supports team-based chat. These projects will be introduced in 15 minute talks, with just as much time to hold group discussions about implications and possibilities for teaching practice.

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  May

  4

  Engaging Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning

  Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 9:00 am

  Emerging research suggests that engaging students as partners in teaching and learning has the potential to enhance, and perhaps even transform, student learning—and teaching. This workshop, led by Celebrate Learning Week 2018 keynote speaker Peter Felten, will explore practical strategies from diverse disciplines for creating and sustaining student-faculty partnerships in teaching and learning.

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  May

  2

  Open Scholarship in Practice Day

  Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 9:00 am

  Learn about new tools that can increase the reproducibility of research, and new pedagogies that become possible when students and faculty become co-creators engaged in generative knowledge creation. Hear from UBC colleagues who are incorporating “openness” in innovative ways to enhance teaching, research, and publishing.

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  May

  1

  Graduate Students in Teaching; Mini Conference 2018

  Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 9:30 am

  This conference is an opportunity for students to focus on the present and future role of graduate students in teaching: graduate students teaching now, as well as graduate students as future faculty. This conference is free for all undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, but registration is required.

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  May

  1

  Capture, Integrate, Reflect and Connect Learning with ePortfolios (CIRCle 2018)

  Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 9:30 am

  This event explores the role of e-portfolios in higher education and professional practices. We will inquire into how e-portfolios might be used to create a bridge between academic learning and professional identity and how educators can cultivate an e-portfolio culture in disciplines where this does not exist. Sessions consist of presentations by faculty and students from all disciplines, and employers, on topics including reflective and collaborative processes, digital literacy and online ethics, distinguishing between personal and professional identities.

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  Apr

  21

  Global History Between the Wars

  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 185, 9:30 am

  This session will explore a period of history that rise to divisive international trends and modern conflicts, discussing the history of revolutions, colonialism and the first decolonization of the 20th century, the Depression, fascism and the onset of the Second World War in Asia and Europe.

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  Apr

  14

  Dreaming: Science, Substance and Suppositions

  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 185, 9:30 am

  This session explores the unique rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep from a multitude of perspectives. Understand the physiological functions during REM sleep, research on dream content (nightmares, recurring dreams) and disorders of the dream state, and discuss the theories of the function of dreams, dream interpretation and the practice of lucid dreaming.

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  Apr

  7

  Christianity in China: Past, Present, Future

  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Room 185, 9:30 am

  This session will study the history of Christianity in China, including the remarkable story of the early Jesuit missions, the relationship between Christianity and China's modernization in the 20th century, and the state of Christianity in China today, including the role of underground churches and the state's efforts to regulate religion.

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