Stirring Minds: From STEM to SoTL
From STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning): A Difficult Journey On February 23, 2012, Engineer Susan Nesbit and Scientist Niamh Kelly discussed their transition from STEM practitioners to SoTL scholars. The story of their journey inspired their audience of scholars and graduate students to begin a dialogue. […]
DIY Academic Journal Publishing
Dr. Lawrence D. Berg presented Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Academic Journal Publishing in the Age of the Knowledge Enclosure. This presentation outlined opportunities for creating new scholarly publication venues in the age of academic capitalism and the knowledge enclosure. Dr. Berg began his discussion about the wider cultural and political economic context within which one needs to […]
Congratulations to Starleigh Grass
Alumna and current master’s student Starleigh Grass receives the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award A self-described “teacher, blogger, and mother” from the Tsilhqot’in Nation received the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award from The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society, in partnership with the Victoria Foundation. The recipient, Starleigh Grass, is currently on leave from […]
4th Annual Interprofessional Workshop
On November 9th, UNC 200 will become a ‘village’ of over 140 students, faculty and community practitioners involved in nursing, social work and education. The purpose of the workshop is to model interprofessional practice through case studies and panel discussions that focus on issues of child welfare. As Dr. Judy Gillespie commented last year in […]
Campus Support for Graduate Students
Dr. Susan Crichton, Director of Graduate Programs, introduced special campus friends during orientation… Beginning on the Mezzanine of the EME building, Dr. Susan Crichton welcomed incoming graduate students to the Faculty of Education. In her remarks, Dean Lynn Bosetti encouraged the students to think, engage and challenge not only themselves, but also challenge their professors […]
Summer Institute in Education (SIE) – Fun in the Sun
For students attending the Summer Institute in Education (SIE), Wednesday is ‘Barbeque Day’. This week, Dr. McCoubrey, the Professor of the Week, hosted this complimentary BBQ with the assistance of other faculty and staff. While enjoying a barbequed hamburger (or veggie burger) with all the fixings, faculty and students had opportunities to mix and mingle […]
How do some Graduate students spend their summer vacation?
Every July and August on UBC’s Okanagan campus, one expects to be the only one enjoying the courtyard and surroundings … Not true for many graduate students of the Faculty of Education! Summer session is the time to take advantage of courses offered only during the summer through the Summer Institute in Education. Other students […]
Stirring Minds Series at 2011 ICEL Conference
Small Technologies with Big Potential: Lessons Learned from Colleagues in Challenging Contexts Dr. Susan Crichton is an associate professor at the University of Calgary – Faculty of Education and a fellow of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at Cambridge University. Her research explores the design and development of ICT enhanced learning environments and the use […]
Stirring Minds – We’ve got footnotes down, what happened to the bodynotes?
We’ve got footnotes down, what happened to the bodynotes? Reclaiming the visceral imagination. Speaker: Dr. Celeste Snowber Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm Place: ARTS 204 This performative talk investigated embodied knowing within the academic community and the relationship between a vibrant place of […]
Open Access Week (October 18 to 22, 2010)
Open educational resources are digital educational materials that are freely shared by teachers, students and lifelong learners. This session will focus on how faculty may leverage and share open educational resources to enhance learning environments. In addition participants will explore how open education contributes to the open access movement.