Thanks so much for colleagues and students for this award … the nomination package is complex and time consuming.
It is humbling to receive such an award!
https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2014/05/09/ubc-honours-faculty-for-teaching-excellence-and-innovation/
A big thank you to UBC O TV and Allyssa Costerton-Grant
http://youtu.be/KO2-0lczfGQ
Another video …
Governance of the ILC is managed through a director and an advisory board. Current Advisory Board members include:
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At the Eighth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Serveh Naghshbandi presented our initial findings from Maker Day 2013. A short video explaining the day and our abstract below provides more information. Looking forward to your comments, Serveh, Susan and Deb.
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Drawing from the Maker Movement and design thinking, we hosted Maker Day 2013 as a professional development activity for K-9 educators. The goal was to introduce educators to design thinking, making and tinkering. Maker Day was an opportunity for educators to experience fully the participatory design cycle by engaging in the iterative Stanford d.school’s design thinking model. We created a problem scenario and asked facilitators to guide the educators through the design process. The educators used the main scenario in collaboration with each other to gain empathy for the person they were designing. Then, they made one prototype per group, using the materials provided. Prototypes were the solutions to the problems that participants identified and defined. After engaging in the participatory design project, each group displayed their prototype and shared their design process and ideas on how this experience could integrate in their own professional practices.
A BIG welcome to Deb Carter. While Deb isn’t new to those of you at UBC Okanagan, she is new to the ILC family. Since starting in mid June, I can’t imagine how the ILC functioned previously.
Deb is a PhD student and a respective member of the Faculty of Education. I’ll leave Deb to add her personal links and information.
You can contact Deb at deb.carter@ubc.ca
Attached to this post is the original proposal for the establishment of the ILC.
The centre was approved September 2012
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I am pleased to approve the creation of an Innovative Learning Centre within the Faculty of Education. This approval is for the creation of a centre without any presupposition as to which outside partnerships or funding streams may develop.
The Centre should be managed and governed in accordance with UBC policy.
Best wishes in this exciting endeavor,
Wes
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Professor W. Wesley Pue
Provost,
University of British Columbia,
Okanagan Campus
From: Bosetti, Lynn
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:41 PM
To: Pue, Wesley; Darling, Kimberly
Cc: Crichton, Susan
Subject: FW: Proposal to Establish ILC
Dear Wes,
Please find attached our proposal to establish the Innovative Learning Centre in the Faculty of Education. It is a Faculty center and will focus on applied research.
There does not appear to be a template for proposals so we have modeled ours on others we have seen.
We have aligned it with our Faculty Strategic Plan which is pending approval at our September Faculty Council meeting.
Thanks very much for your consideration of this request,
Sincerely,
Lynn
The first research associate for the ILC was Dr. Lorraine Baron (September 2012 – June 2013). Lorraine’s expertise focused on innovative and thoughtful ways of teaching secondary level Mathematics.
The ILC wishes her every success in her new position at the University of Hawaii.
The founding director of the ILC is Dr. Susan Crichton http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/education/faculty/scrichton.html
The goal of the ILC is to provide appropriate tools and spaces for educators, entrepreneurs, dreamers and tinkers to imagine and explore innovations in teaching and learning. It will engage the UBC community – both town and gown, in all aspects of innovative pedagogy, supporting economic growth in the region, and continuing to advance the proven accomplishments of K-20 educators who work and live outside the lower mainland.
The ILC recognizes its unique position within a nimble campus and embraces both the potential and promise for contributing to the place of mind on the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. The ILC consists of three integrated components – a design studio, an incubator for pedagogical innovations, and an innovative classroom, each synergistically linked to a research hub, (i.e., the proposed Centre for Research and Mindful Engagement, CRME). Activity within each component of the ILC is detailed in the management plan.
Educators and industry will benefit from the Innovative Learning Centre through collaborative projects and synergies afforded by access to research, design, incubation, and testing. The ILC will become a home for educators, undergraduate and graduate students, visiting academics, entrepreneurs, and industry partners as we work together to imagine and design new ways of thinking and learning in a time of substantial change, globalization, and ubiquitous access to information. We recognize that Canada’s place in the knowledge economy rests substantially on the ability of education and research institutions to inquire into and grapple with new ways of engaging learners in discovery and innovation.