Corinna Lougheed Announcement
Best wishes to Corinna Lougheed, Development Coordinator, as she moves onto a new role at SFU as the Advancement Officer, Gift & Estate Planning Office. Corinna’s last day at UBC is Wednesday, April 25, 2018.
Miquela lives somewhere on Instagram, between fiction and reality
Ron Darvin is interviewed by Publico, a Portuguese newspaper, on how we construct identities through digital media.
Self-taught carpenter building a whole new skill set in adulthood
Metro News interviewed Dr. Shauna Butterwick, a professor emerita of adult education at UBC, for a story about learning new skills in adulthood.
Director, Masters of Educational Technology Program and Director, Graduate Studies in Education (Pro Tem)
As of September 1, 2018, Dr. Teresa Dobson, Professor, LLED will take on the roles of Director, MET Program and Director, Graduate Studies in Education (Pro Tem), as Dr. Jennifer Shapka goes on sabbatical leave for 2018/19.
Graduate Defence – Natalia Panina-Beard
Natalia Panina-Beard, PhD, Human Development, Learning and Culture Creating a New Vision for an Imagined School: Young People from Alternative Programs Explore their Experiences with Schooling Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Vadeboncoeur Friday, April 6, 2018 | 12:30 p.m. | Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road, Room 200 Abstract Based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, which states that […]
Graduate Defence – Lynn Service
Lynn Service, MA, Special Education A Video-Based Preference Assessment of Social Stimuli Supervisor(s): Dr. Pat Mirenda (SPED) and Dr. Laura Grow (Garden Academy) Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. | Neville Scarfe Building, Room 309C Abstract Research on social stimuli preference assessments has largely used pictorial depictions of social stimuli (Kelly, Roscoe, Hanley, & […]
Canvas Migration Update
If you are teaching a classroom course in Summer 2018, you can migrate your course from Connect to Canvas by following the ETS migration guide.
New Director of Communications
The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce that Ms. Moira McDermott has joined the Faculty of Education as Director, Communications.
One Button Studio/DIY Media Space Revamp
UBC Studios has added a new DIY-Media Space to the One Button Studio. The new service remains free for UBC faculty and staff to use.
From Centennial to Sesquicentennial in Canada: Transformative Research in the History of Education
HSE-RHÉ Editors: Penney Clark and Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia Guest Editors: Sharon Anne Cook, Chad Gaffield, Ruby Heap, Stéphane Lévesque, Heather McGregor, Lorna McLean, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, and Timothy J. Stanley, Making History Educational Research Unit / Faire de l’histoire unité de recherche en éducation University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa Published: Spring 2018 […]
