eBook Fair and Vendor Panel
10 am to 1 pm: Vendor fair to speak with end users, demo books, answer questions, etc.
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Librarian Lunch ‘n’ Learn Session with vendors – LIBRARIANS ONLY
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Vendor panel – LIBRARIANS ONLY
Music on the Point: Concerts with Personality
A concert with UBC School of Music personalities performing and sharing glimpses of life inside the music.
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 96
Respighi: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor
Sustainability Education Resource Centre Open House
Join the Sustainability Education Resource Center for some hot chocolate, goodies and find out how you can learn about and get involved with sustainability initiatives at UBC. Meet the Sustainability Ambassadors, play a game and enjoy a unique student space.
FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in Vancouver support reconciliation between Aboriginal people and wider Canadian society. To continue the conversation, Xwi7xwa Library and the Research Commons at Koerner Library invite you to participate in a FIREtalk at the First Nations House of Learning Hall on Oct 23, 4-6 pm.
Interactive Engagement in the Classroom: Our Experiences with Teaching Upper-Level Statistics
Paul co-taught STAT 300 in 2012/13 Term 1 using in-class activities in
all classes. Students worked in pre-selected groups during lectures. Clicker questions were used to receive and give feedback to students during the worksheet activities. In addition, there was a two-stage midterm exam in this class, where students wrote the first part individually, and then wrote part 2 in groups. Paul has also used worksheet activities in STAT 536 the past two years.
In 2012/13 Term 2, Will taught STAT 305 using a similar model of
in-class activities. He also used weekly Lab TA surveys to gather
additional information to address student difficulties and created a
Post Course Knowledge Retention Survey to interview past STAT 305
students. The latter gave surprising results.
Mainly via examples, Paul and Will will share their findings.
(This is joint work with Bruce Dunham and Gaitri Yapa.)
Open UBC Week: Open Robotics and 3D Printing Demo
Prototyping tools are available on campus for students looking to fabricate their ideas into physical objects. On display will be physical prototypes from UBC Engineering Physics and other local groups making use of waterjet cutters, 3d printers, laser cutters and other tools to put together physical prototypes for academic courses, capstone projects and extracurricular teams.
Open UBC Week: MOOCs and On-Campus Learning
Meet a UBC Computer Science Professor who led the development of a Coursera MOOC, which ran for the first time this summer and is now being offered in parallel with an on-campus course. The talk will report on these experiences and present current beliefs about the challenges ahead.
Open UBC Week: Reclaiming the Open Learning Environment
The delivery of open online learning has become a more common practice (or at least a more desired practice) in higher education in recent years. In this session, two diverse universities will share their lessons learned in delivering open learning.
Open UBC Week: The Whys and Hows of Open — Transforming Learning Through Open Pedagogies and Practices
Meet two UBC faculty members who are creating and participating in innovative open education initiatives. In addition to hearing their stories, the session will also explore the motivations, experiences, and challenges in embracing open.
Open UBC Week: Open Freedoms / Open Practices
Contemporary open education practices are based on free software and free culture movements. Join Paul Stacey from Creative Commons as he explores the extent to which Open Educational Resources, MOOC’s, open access, and other open education innovations are embodying and leveraging these movements.