Events

IKBLC students. Photo credit: Martin Dee / UBC Communications & Marketing Building Digital Literacies: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia-based assignments can engage students in an authentic learning experience that involves open collaboration, critical thinking, and knowledge building for a global audience. When students write or edit in wikipedia, they are not using the same format or skills that they would in writing a research paper or persuasive essay – they are applying new […]

Flexible Learning in the Sauder School of Business

In this session we will discuss and explore the benefits, challenges and lessons learned from the implementation of the Sauder’s Flexible Learning Initiatives. In 2013, UBC launched the Flexible Learning Initiative, which aimed to provide an agile yet deliberate approach to transforming and enhancing student learning experience. The Flex Comm Minor project (7 courses for […]

Frankly Speaking: Indigenous Education

  Please note this event has been cancelled. Dr. Blye Frank, Dean, Faculty of Education, the University of British Columbia, hosts the second annual FRANKLY SPEAKING event on October 4, 2017. In the spirit of ideas worth advancing, the theme will be Indigenous Education. FRANKLY SPEAKING provides alumni and friends of UBC’s Faculty of Education […]

How do you map diseases? A look into the world of GIScience and medical geography with Emily Acheson

UBC Library’s Visualizing the World: A Maps and Geographic Information Systems Speaker Series continues with a talk on January 23, 2018 at 12 p.m in the Lillooet Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre features a talk by PhD candidiate in Geography at UBC, Emily Acheson.

Why does engagement matter? Questioning the benefits and outcomes of user engagement in an ever-shifting technology landscape

Heather O’Brien has been studying how people engage with information-rich technologies for more than a decade. In this lecture she will discuss the personal and social benefits, drawbacks, and outcomes of user engagement, as well as two emerging projects that return to and interrogate the question of “why engagement matters”.