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SoTL Dissemination Fund

August 5, 2025

The SoTL Dissemination Fund remains open to any full-time faculty members at UBC Okanagan. Conference costs and Article Processing Charges for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research with direct implications for UBC may be covered.

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Low-effort Strategies for Academic Integrity in the Age of GenAI

August 5, 2025

What conversations are you planning to have with your students about integrity in this GenAI era? While using GenAI checkers might seem like an easy solution for identifying AI-generated work, UBC strongly discourages the use of these tools. UBC’s guidance regarding GenAI tools highlights concerns around effectiveness, accuracy, bias, privacy, and intellectual property. Recent studies […]

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Accessibility Tip | Dyslexia-Friendly Style Guide: Typeface

August 5, 2025

This month we invite you to consider the needs of dyslexic readers and examine the typeface you’ve been using: ✔ Use sans serif fonts (i.e. fonts without the small decorative lines at the ends of the letters) as they are easier to read. Options include Arial, Calibri, Century Gothic, Comic Sans Open Sans, Tahoma, Trebuchet […]

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Canadians Have Been Breaking Their Promises to Indigenous People

August 5, 2025

CBC Docs presents this clip from filmmaker Tasha Hubbard. Tasha narrates a history of Indigenous peoples in the prairies and their relationship with the government, focusing on the events of the late nineteenth century. Watch the full video

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Recommended Reading: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

August 5, 2025

The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won’t just send them all “home.” Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, […]

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