This 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.
Join 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.
This workshop equips graduate and upper-level undergraduate students with insights on what to consider before signing a publisher's contract, ensuring seamless integration of these articles into their theses and dissertations.
The accessibility drop-ins are for anyone who is developing course content or open educational resources (OER) and who is curious about strategies or best practices for accessibility.
Tired 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.
This workshop will introduce interaction terms in linear models along with random and fixed effects, including random and fixed intercepts and slopes, in the context of Hierarchical Linear Models (also known as Linear Mixed Models).
By the end of this session, participants should be able to fit (Hierarchical) Linear Models (HLMs) with interaction terms and interpret the output of the summary() function for Hierarchical Linear Models. Additionally, participants will be able to identify the limitations of (H)LMs.
Researchers, 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.
In this interactive session, we will preview commonly used content types such as multiple-choice questions, image hotspots, and interactive video, and guide participants through the process of developing a couple different ones.
Join us to unlock the secrets to choosing the right scholarly publisher!
Whether 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.
Starting the Conversation is lunch time, speaker's series that provides an opportunity for students, community and visiting scholars to gather to learn about various Community Engaged Research projects. The next speaker is Vanier Scholar Lindsay DuPré will discuss the pivotal role that families play in the activation of Indigenous Knowledges arguing that Home is both a site and mechanism for epistemological transformation.
Do you want to practice your English speaking skills? Join our English Conversation Circle!
The UBC Wiki is a powerful platform for enabling student scholarship and supporting open assignments where students contribute as creators of knowledge and learning resources. In this session, we will explore practical ways to integrate the UBC Wiki into your courses.
With a focus on inspiration and curiosity, join us for this faculty-led community of practice where we share and learn about innovative teaching techniques and tools. All are welcome! You are able to attend via Zoom as well as in person. For Zoom access, please contact ross.mckerlich@ubc.ca.
This workshop will provide an overview of the possibilities and things to know when considering open access publishing.
The Go Global team is hosting an interactive booth where you can: Connect with Go Global Ambassadors and hear first-hand about their international exchange experiences. Explore exciting opportunities to study abroad. Take part in our “Postcard Home” station. Write a message on a postcard and drop it in our handmade mailbox to send a note […]
This session will introduce you to copyright basics for your OER project and take you through licensing considerations to ensure that your work is reusable by others.
This workshop will introduce Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), which allow one to model non-Gaussian (i.e., non-normal) data.
By the end of this session, participants will be familiar with the three parts of GLMs (family of distribution, linear predictor, and link function) and will be able to decide what family of distributions and link function to choose for their data. They will also be able to interpret the output of the summary() function and diagnostic plots for (H)GLMs and recognize the limitations of (H)GLMs.
Tired 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.
Embarking on the journey of writing your thesis or dissertation? This online workshop offers valuable tools and techniques to support your thesis writing process.
Tired 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.
This workshop will introduce Generalized Additive Models (GAMs), which allow one to fit models that are complex and nonlinear but easily interpretable, unlike many “black-box” machine learning models.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to fit GAMs in R using the mgcv package and understand the advantages of GAMs over GLMs and LMs.
Introducción a los servicios de biblioteca de UBC en español. Introduction to UBC Library services in Spanish.
Researchers, 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.
This workshop will show how to interpret GAMs and how to use GAMs to make publication-level figures.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to interpret GAMs and the output of the summary() function, predict from GAMs, and make figures using GAMs.
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