Breeonne Baxter
H5P: supporting knowledge assessment through interactivity
Technology in the classroom has often been used to present knowledge in many different ways. From videos to slide decks to learning management systems, it has expanded how we interact with the content of a course, albeit typically in a somewhat passive way. This landscape is evolving thanks in part to H5P (an abbreviation for […]
Imagining UBC’s Digital Future
Digital UBC aims to develop a forward-looking strategy that advances Shaping UBC’s Next Century and reflects the needs of the community in the context of a post-pandemic world. With a view to sustaining UBC’s position at the forefront of technology experimentation and adoption in the sector, the digital strategy will guide technology decisions, actions and […]
Open UBC launches new collection to highlight open educational resources
Instructors at UBC and beyond can now search through a new curated database full of openly accessible teaching and learning materials. The UBC OER Collection showcases UBC open educational resources (OER) in a searchable interface to support UBC faculty, as well as the general community in incorporating open educational resources and practices into their curriculum. […]
High-tech mouthguard tracks head impacts during varsity hockey playoffs
A high-tech mouthguard worn by UBC Thunderbird hockey players will record every big hit of the upcoming playoffs to capture data for UBC researchers who study concussions. The study is led by Dr. Lyndia Wu, an expert in brain injury biomechanics at UBC’s Faculty of Applied Science. “We started a five-year collaborative study with the […]
Reclaiming the narrative: How UBC students are helping decolonize MOA’s African collections
UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) boasts over 5,000 objects from Africa. However, many of these objects arrived at MOA without historical and cultural context, resulting in inaccurate and incomplete descriptions in the museum’s displays and online catalogue. Beginning in 2019, a group of UBC students had the opportunity to change that. The Decolonizing the African […]
UBC bolstering Wellbeing in a challenging year
Since launching the Wellbeing Strategic Framework in 2019, UBC’s shared vision of being a health and wellbeing-promoting university is more important than ever in the face of complex societal challenges, including the global pandemic, climate emergency, colonization, and systemic racism. In a year made more complex by the COVID-19 pandemic, groups and community members across […]
Art in the Streets of Downtown Kelowna
For a number of UBC Okanagan Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students, the empty building faces of downtown Kelowna are fast becoming a welcoming canvas outside of the classroom. As part of the BFA program, instructors David Doody and his partner Jorden Doody supervised the creation of two downtown murals, both located on St. Paul […]
Showcasing the 2021 Sauder School of Business Staff Award winners
Please visit https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/news/school-news/showcasing-2021-staff-award-winners to read the full story.
Tania Dick joins UBC Nursing as inaugural Indigenous Nursing Lead
Please visit https://nursing.ubc.ca/news-events/news-story/02-nov-2021/ubc-nursings-inaugural-indigenous-nursing-lead-tania-dick to read the full story.
Advocating for change and creating opportunities for Black law students
Hannah Goodridge and Lynn Momprevil are second-year law students and co-presidents of UBC Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA). This month, they’re gearing up for two big events. The annual BLSA Canada Conference was in Vancouver, February 17-20, while the second Black Pre-Law Conference, co-hosted by the UBC BLSA and Allard Law, will take place on […]