If you are a new faculty member at UBC Okanagan, please contact the UBC Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning about signing up for this program!!

Today is publication day for our new book “Open, Online and Equitable Education” through CEL @ Elon U’s open access SoTL series, co-edited with @nkturner Nick Baker David J Hornsby David Graham and Aline Germain-Rutherford - centerforengagedlearning.org/books/online-o…

This #UBCO online course provides strategic tools to address situations that involve discrimination, harassment, and denial of rights. In addition, it will provide example lessons, scenarios, and readings. Learn more at education.ok.ubc.ca/degrees-progra… #UBC #bced

How’s your evening? Mine has been lovely!! Lake cruising is fun! Celebrating the completion of our Okanagan Global Summer Program with our visiting students from Qatar, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, and US! #kelownacruises

Last time I checked, residents of Jasper vote in Alberta provincial elections, pay Alberta taxes and Jasper falls under Alberta Municipal Affairs. Their schools/hospitals are managed by Alberta government. Their fire department is part of AFFA. #ableg

So proud of the Canadian women’s rugby 7s … great match after a great tournament! Silver medal well earned!! #TeamCanada #Paris2024

Canada’s economy appears to have achieved a soft landing: inflation is almost down to target—and the economy, supported by immigration, has avoided a recession. Read our annual review of Canada here: imf.org/en/News/Articl…

In case you missed it, read all about the new Battery Innovation Centre coming to UBCO, boosted by investment from the provincial government. Another way School of Engineering researchers are leading the charge!

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Excitement is in the air at the start of another academic year at UBC Okanagan! Welcome—and welcome back—new and returning students, faculty and staff.

Very excited to announce that Jannik Haruo Eikenaar is the new Academic Director of the UBC Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning. Jannik is an award-winning educator from the UBC Okanagan UBC SOE Okanagan, and educational leader who has had tremendous impact both at University of British Columbia and beyond. Welcome to the CTL Jannik!!

“You were right about me. Tell your sister… you were right.” ... RIP James Earl Jones ... thank you for being so amazing throughout your 93 years!

Excited my next book (a collaboration with Aline Germain-Rutherford, David Graham, Nick Baker, David J Hornsby, and @nkturner) is available for pre-order from Palgrave MacMillan - please let your colleagues in libraries know that it is coming out soon! lnkd.in/gm4aHeW2

This is an absolutely damning statement by Trudeau. Poilievre needs to step up or get out. Are there any serious conservatives left?

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Zoomed into @ISSOTL for a panel on the Ecosystems of Love and Hope today w/Brad Wuetherick & Anna Santucci. We talked about surfacing systems, relationships of care, research & wonder - and how we imagine creative futures together through coalition-building & collective sense-making

Well Well .... Moody's reaffirms Canada's AAA rating .. supports Liberal Gov't's fiscal policy .... OH.... and the tripling of the volume through TMX has displaced large quantities of middle east oil normally delivered to the west coast of the US ..... Damn Liberals eh ..??

Hi all. I've cut and run from Twitter ... I just cannot support it anymore, as much as it has been a critical part of my connection with so many over the years. I'm now on Bluesky at Brad Wuetherick.bsky.social ... if you go there, look me up!

Very proud to see the release of my new edited volume Online Learning, Open Education and Equity in a Post-Pandemic World. Thanks to Palgrave Macmillan for their support, and my co-editors and authors for seeing this journey to the end! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…