Weekly Writing Community
Online virtual eventTired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
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Centre for Scholarly Communication
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the Office of Research Services
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaResearchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Learning R: Importing Data
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will address importing Excel and comma separated value files into R for analysis.
Weekly Writing Community
Online virtual eventTired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Writing and Academic Communication support
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaResearchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Q&A Session: Writing the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Application
Online virtual eventThis online Q&A session, facilitated by the College of Graduate Studies and the Centre for Scholarly Communication, provides an opportunity to ask questions about writing and submitting the application.
Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources
Online virtual eventIn this session we will walk you through some strategies for finding open content to adapt, or include within your learning resources, as well as best practices for attribution.
free
Learning R: Exploring Data
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will introduce participants to common tasks of initial data exploration.
Weekly Writing Community
Online virtual eventTired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Writing the Literature Review
Online virtual eventUnlock the secrets of crafting impactful literature reviews in this interactive online workshop for graduate students. Discover how to synthesize existing research succinctly while maintaining your own critical perspective and voice.
Free
Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
Online virtual eventWhether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content.
free
Accessibility and OER Studio
Online virtual eventDrop in to the Accessibility Studio for one-on-one guidance from specialists about designing course materials and OER so they are more accessible for all students.
free
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Research Computing
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaResearchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Thesis Formatting Q&A
Online virtual eventJoin the Centre for Scholarly Communication for an online Q&A session to ask questions and learn more about how to properly format your thesis for submission.
Free
OER and GenAI
Online virtual eventIn this session we will discuss the potential of AI in generating dynamic content, including interactive textbooks, and its potential in developing open educational resources and practices.
free
“Stop Generating”: Generative AI in the Contexts of Indigenous Studies
Online virtual eventIn this presentation, David Gaertner Assoicate Professor Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies will draw from Indigenous theorists and authors to situate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) within a long colonial history of extraction.
free
Learning R: Subsetting and Filtering Data
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaExplore the variety of ways that data can be filtered and subset in R. Working with data frames and vectors, data frames, and lists, participants will learn the nuances of extracting portions of a larger data set for analysis.
Copyright and Your Thesis
Online virtual eventDo you want to learn how to use copyrighted material in your research, and how to protect your own rights as an author? If so, this workshop is for you!
Thesis and Dissertation Structure
Online virtual eventEmbarking on the journey of writing your thesis or dissertation? This online workshop offers valuable tools and techniques to support your thesis writing process.
Free
Weekly Writing Community
Online virtual eventTired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the UBCO Research Data Hub
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaResearchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Beware the Copyleft Trolls – Questionable Use of Open Licenses
Online virtual eventThis session will provide participants with a more in-depth understanding of Creative Commons licenses and some of the potential pitfalls when using and assigning licenses to your work.
free
Sharing & Discoverability – Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources
Online virtual eventThis session will introduce you to workflows for making your resource discoverable, streamlining impact data collection, and marketing and promotion processes to showcase the reach of your open educational resource.
free
Learning R: Iterating Over Data
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will revisit the vector underpinnings of R, introduce the apply() family of functions for iterating, or looping, over objects, and introduce for loops for those instances when no pre-existing solution exists.
English Language Conversation Circle
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaDo you want to practice your English speaking skills? Join our English Conversation Circle!
Free
