Flexible Learning: Enabling Greater Access to Learning at UBC
Flexible Learning: Enabling Greater Access to Learning at UBC Jeff Miller Date & Time: Wednesday, October 29, 1pm – 1:50pm Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: Open education can be understood as a collection of practices that utilize online technology to freely share knowledge and to increase access to learning. The creative act of […]
Brown Bag Session: Open Education Resources – Where Do I Put My Stuff
Brown Bag Session: Open Education Resources – Where Do I Put My Stuff Date & Time: Wednesday, October 29, 12pm – 12:50pm Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: While finding open education resources for your course is complicated on its own, organizing and storing these resources to make them easily usable and findable also […]
The Student as Producer: How UBC Courses are Transforming Learning by Contributing To and Improving Wikipedia
The Student as Producer: How UBC Courses are Transforming Learning by Contributing To and Improving Wikipedia Patrick Earley and Rose Marie Déchaine Date & Time: Wednesday, October 29, 11am – 11:50am Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: The student as producer pedagogical model emphasizes the role of the student as collaborators in the production […]
Open Adventures in Educational Gaming – From Trading Cards, to Game Design Teacher Hackathons, to Role Playing our Global Future
Open Adventures in Educational Gaming – From Trading Cards, to Game Design Teacher Hackathons, to Role Playing our Global Future David Ng Date & Time: Wednesday, October 29, 10am – 10:50am Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: The AMBL (the educational arm of the Michael Smith Laboratories) lab of late has been exploring the […]
Open Badges UBC Booth
Open Badges UBC Booth Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 3pm – 5pm Location: Foyer, 2nd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: If you had the ability to represent a skill or accomplishment to the world, what would that skill be? How would you like to present it to the world? Open Badges UBC invites you to learn […]
Open Robotics and 3D Printing Demo
Open Robotics and 3D Printing Demo Jon Nakane Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 3pm – 5pm Location: Foyer, 2nd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: 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 […]
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: How Open Access is Impacting the Publishing Landscape
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: How Open Access is Impacting the Publishing Landscape Panel Discussion with Melissa Pitts, Lauri Aesoph, Margery Fee, Brian Owen, Michael Blades, and Sandra Mathison. Moderated by Lea Starr Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 2pm – 3:30pm Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: Lea Starr, UBC’s Associate University Librarian, […]
Demystifying APIs
Demystifying APIs Alex Garnett Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 1pm – 1:50pm Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: When you hear people talking about how they’re getting data from this API or that API, do you ever thinking to yourself: “Well, I’m not a programmer per se, but people toss that word around […]
Brown Bag Session: Can I Use This?
Brown Bag Session: Can I Use This? Will Engle and Devin Soper Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 12pm – 12:50pm Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: If you are preparing any kind of multimedia for your teaching, from PowerPoint slides to online videos, chances are you want to incorporate images, video clips, or […]
Student Innovation in the Open
Student Innovation in the Open Panel Discussion with Chris Brady, Eugenia Kwok, Victor Ngo and Katie Mills Date & Time: Tuesday, October 28, 11am – 11:50am Location: Lillooet Room, 3rd Floor, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Description: This session brings student innovation into the open, as UBC students from a variety of disciplines present their research in a panel […]