Do you have questions about how to thoughtfully integrate Indigenous content and representation into your course work? Curious about how to offer meaningful land acknowledgements in online meetings or events at UBC? Indigenous Initiatives’ Virtual Coffee Drop-ins are great place to explore these topics, connect with others on the same learning path, or just get […]
This workshop focuses on regression models to provide participants with a foundational understanding of machine learning concepts, techniques, and tools used for linear and nonlinear regression. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will gain practical experience with regression algorithms, one of the most popular machine-learning techniques. The workshop begins with an overview […]
Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible to all learners? Or do you have specific questions about formatting your Open Educational Resources (OER) to be accessible for everyone? Join us at the Accessibility Studio, where you can drop in for a one-on-one chat with our specialists. Gain valuable insights into designing accessible course materials or creating and adapting […]
Alternatives to fossil fuels are needed and innovations in wind, solar and other renewable energies are progressing. However, the question of storage remains a challenge. Join UBC researchers Robert Godin (Chemistry) and Werner Antweiler (Business) in a discussion around the question of energy storage.
In this Indigenous Speakers Series session, we will have a conversation with Dr. Roland D. Chrisjohn – Kanakalut, Onyota’a:ka of the Haudenausuanee. He is the author of “The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada” and “Dying to Please You: Indigenous Suicide in Contemporary Canada.” We will explore preconceived sensibilities about […]
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]
The Generative AI Drop-In clinics are open for all faculty and staff at UBC and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. The sessions will be in an open-hours format where the questions will be answered such that all […]
Choosing the best visualizations for sharing quantitative findings is key to ensuring that your outcomes are understandable and accessible to your audience. However, designing effective figures that present your data in a clear and meaningful way can be challenging. This session will offer attendees a chance to develop a deeper understanding of: Why clear visualizations […]
This session benefits UBC's faculties or staff who will start setting up suppliers; and the existing ones who may have doubts about the foundations of the process. As a UBC Faculty or Staff who sets up suppliers, you may face situations, like you: Struggle to identify a supplier Identifying the requisites a supplier has to […]
If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! If your expertise is a bit higher than what is described above but you are still very new to R, check out the Beginner R part 2 workshop […]
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Branch Professor, University of Washington Blue whales are truly enormous yet remain enigmatic and poorly understood, with most populations only studied for a few summer months every year, and mating and calving never observed. As a result, classical theories for their migration and behavior have relied heavily on analogies with better-studied species […]
Join the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics and the Marketing & Behavioural Science division for a JEDDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Decolonization, & Inclusion) Seminar on how geographic place, labor markets, and public policy influence households’ economic lives and inequality.
