UBCO Keynote – Learning in a Time of Abundance

Online

This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025.

Keynote Speaker: Dave Cormier

Our education systems were designed to solve the problem of information scarcity. We collected information in books, created artifacts like essays to prove that we knew how to find and handle that information and our schools were often the only places where that information could be found. The information technologies of the last 30 years have changed all of that. Information is now more abundant than ever before.

Learners can access information with little or no effort. At the same time, the world is more complex and uncertain. What does this mean for post-secondary education? Join David Cormier, author and Interim Director of Curriculum Development and Delivery at Thompson Rivers University, as he explains this information abundant world; how we got here and how making small, meaningful steps in how we approach learning will impact our students and community for the better.

Bio:

With 25 years of experience as teacher, researcher and author, Dave Cormier is among Canada’s leading voices in post-secondary education. He is interested in how technologies change what it means to learn and to have learned. He is currently Interim Director, Curriculum Development and Delivery, Open Learning, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada, and the author of Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum (John Hopkins University Press, 2024)