{"id":6650,"date":"2016-04-28T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2016-04-28T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:56:08","slug":"some-progress-made-at-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/04\/28\/some-progress-made-at-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"Some progress made at UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the talk<\/a>\u00a0John Robinson gave\u00a0at Edinburgh recently about the Living Lab approach at the University of British Columbia is anything to go by, some progress has been made there on the educational front. \u00a0Robinson was, until recently,\u00a0UBC's vice provost for sustainability and so should know what he's talking about. \u00a0It must be instructive, therefore, that in his living lab musings, he devoted a mere\u00a08 minutes (out of 48) to teaching 'n'\u00a0learning.<\/p>\n

However derisory\u00a0this actually was, I still say this this was progress because, when I heard him speak two years ago in Cambridge<\/a>, he devoted only 6 minutes (out of 50) to these issues. \u00a0Clearly, UBC moves slowly in these matters.<\/p>\n

When I commented on my Cambridge experience, I noted:<\/p>\n

\"...\u00a0what [Robinson]\u00a0did say did not present a picture of an academic community eager to focus on sustainability, nor of an academic leadership all that keen on suggesting they do that. \u00a0It all looked rather neglected: a B movie alongside that Hollywood blockbuster of a campus. \u00a0Whilst there are now some 480 sustainability-related courses (I'm not sure what this means), and voluntary pathways on sustainability learning (or that), none of it looked exceptional. \u00a0Of course, Robinson hasn't an academic role, so someone else might have painted a more positive picture of teaching and learning than his sketch of the academic as a bit of a problem having to be pushed by students, and nudged (pulled\u00a0would be going too far) ever so very gingerly by the institution.<\/em>\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What has changed in all this, I wonder. \u00a0As\u00a0the Edinburgh event is on YouTube, you can judge for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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