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 […]
Join the Faculty of Medicine's Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion virtually on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (PST), for “Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada’s and America’s Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples.” In this Indigenous Speakers Series session, we will have a conversation with Chief Clarence Louie, […]
Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights […]
Self-care. Resilience. Trauma. Healing. These words are often brought up in conversations around wellbeing. In this 4-part series, open to IBPOC-only faculty and staff at UBC, these concepts will be contextualized in a more community-centered way. Held across 4 separate days, we will use this time to unpack the importance of identity, culture, and histories […]
This workshop will focus on tools (mostly in base R) to perform customized operations in R including looping, nested looping, and conditional statements. This workshop is intended to expand the capabilities of R users with moderate experience of the language/software. The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to reinforce […]
Online Are you working on an open education project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Join us for a discussion about how to design or adapt OER so they are more accessible for all learners. We’ll start with a demonstration of different content styles and formats, explore how […]
Self-care. Resilience. Trauma. Healing. These words are often brought up in conversations around wellbeing. In this 4-part series, open to IBPOC-only faculty and staff at UBC, these concepts will be contextualized in a more community-centered way. Held across 4 separate days, we will use this time to unpack the importance of identity, culture, and histories […]
Speaker: Manisha Pahwa, McGill University Lung cancer screening policies and programs are evolving in Canadian jurisdictions with the goal of reducing lung cancer mortality. Potential ethical issues range from promoting autonomy and minimizing harm, to group-level justice considerations related screening access and the use of lung cancer risk factor information to determine individual screening eligibility. […]
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 […]
Learn the basics of using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration. Git is widely used version control software that tracks changes to a group of files, referred to as a repository. GitHub is a popular website for hosting and sharing Git repositories, making it easier to collaborate and share your work. Together, Git and GitHub provide a […]
Online In this online workshop, we’ll explore GenAI custom chatbots that can help achieve and perform specific tasks (e.g. generating alt text to help make images more accessible, finding and summarizing academic articles, writing text, and making PowerPoint slides). We’ll look at different GPTs available in the ChatGPT Plus store and learn about Poe, a […]
Johanna Sam, PhD, M.Sc. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Bridging worlds: Integrating Indigenous knowledges and design thinking for digital adolescent mental health assessment This interactive presentation explores the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, design thinking, and e-mental health tool development to […]
