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School Organizational Restructuring and Collegiality
Research on School Organizational Restructuring and Collegiality Because a significant number of teachers spend their time either with students or alone planning and grading papers, it is not surprising to hear them say they feel isolated from their colleagues. The latest case study in the International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership tells the story […]
Videogames, Virtual Worlds and Real Learning
Videogames, Virtual Worlds and Real Learning October 26, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC (and via Live Podcast) Panel Speakers: * Eric Meyers, School of Library Archival and Information Studies, UBC * Dr. Kathy Sanford, Associate Dean of Teacher Education, University of Victoria * Liz Merkel, Doctoral Candidate, University of […]
First International Open Access Week
UBC has joined SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), The Students for Free Culture, OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), and over 120 institutions worldwide to celebrate in the First International Open Access Week. Various events hosted […]
Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable – Gregory Maguire at Fall Breakfast
Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable, with support from the Education Library and the Language and Literacy Education Department of the Faculty of Education, are featuring Gregory Maguire at the Annual Fall Breakfast. You will recognize Gregory Maguire as the author of more than a dozen novels for children and, to date, five novels for adults, including […]
Varsity Readers will be hosted in the Educaton Library September 29
Varsity Readers will be hosted in the Educaton Library September 29. For information on the program see http://www.learningexchange.ubc.ca/trek_program/athletics/varsityreaders.html UBC varsity athletes visit an inner city school to read with groups of children in elementary schools using books from the UBC Faculty of Education Library. The varsity athletes are positive role models for children and inspire […]
Assessment in schools: Fit for purpose?
The 32-page report, “Assessment in schools: Fit for purpose? A commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme,” recently published in England, is accessible on-line at http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/assessment.pdf. The report, authored by members of the Assessment Reform Group, is a strong challenge to the over-use and mis-use of large-scale standardized tests. The report outlines three widely-held […]
Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
An interesting report from the Carnegie Corporation. Time to Act is the capstone report of Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy. The full report, along with five corresponding reports, is available at: http://www.carnegie.org/literacy/tta/index.html
Autumn ’09 issue of Avatar is out
The new issue of Avatar is now out and linked on our Branch website. New databases, a new lab and new reference sources. Check it out at: http://www.library.ubc.ca/edlib/avatar/avatar.html
Welcome to the Education Library Blog
Welcome to the Education Library Blog on the UBC Blogs website. This post is just a notice that we are “getting going on our blog” for the Branch and will be posting announcements of events, documents of interest and other information related to our Branch in the near future. Hopefully it will look a lot […]