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Learning Research, Learning Reciprocity: Student Community Engagement with the Making Research Accessible Initiative
Evan Mauro & Kirby Manià (Coordinated Arts Program / Journalism, Writing, and Media) are building on a pilot collaboration and asking first-year students to make infographic summaries of Downtown Eastside-relevant research articles.
Practical learning: Advocating for social change with practicum partners
In GRSJ 480, Dr. Rosanne Sia blends theory with hands-on, practicum experience in the community.
Practical Learning: Exploring Artistic Practices in Creative Writing
Learn how Lecturer Sheryda Warrener uses hands-on approaches to engage with Vancouver’s artist community.
Practical Learning: Connecting Theory and Practice in Geography
Siobhán Wittig McPhee shares how GEOG 350 integrates guest lectures, practical learning, design thinking, positionality, reflection, career development, urban geography, and open-source wiki assignments.
Practical Learning: Applying Research Methods to Career Development
Learn how Dr. Catherine Rawn encourages PSYC 217 students to apply research methods to their career development.
Practical Learning: Interviewing and Digital Storytelling
Students in select fourth-year History courses gain hands-on experience in interviewing and digital storytelling.
Practical Learning: Historical Research Methods
In Historical Research Methods, students conduct hands-on archival research to consider the methodological challenges with state archiving and large-scale recordkeeping.
Reading Circles: Teaching Students to Critically Engage with Research Articles through Collaborative Writing
Discover how Dr. Laura Baumvol, lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, applied a learning circle activity to encourage student participation in academic writing and scholarly discourse through interactions with their peers.
What is ‘blended learning’ and how can it benefit post-secondary students?
Blended learning combines face-to-face and virtual instruction through the use of online learning technologies. Post-secondary students attend lectures in real-time, either virtually or in person, and this is accompanied by online learning activities completed outside of class time.
Creative Student Projects Using Collaborative Learning
Discover how ENGL 243: Speculative Fiction students worked together to construct a synthetic human based on literary and cultural representations of synthetic humans in plausible near-future settings.