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Adult Nonformal Education for Environmental Stewardship and Climate Resilience   Register: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5bB5O7fe10FxN4i Date: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Location: PCN 2012 6445 University Blvd Description: Adult nonformal education plays a critical role in supporting learning, agency, and adaptive capacity among adults responding to complex socio-ecological challenges, including climate change. Drawing on two ongoing University Extension-based programs—a drought-planning program for agricultural producers and a hybrid community science initiative focused on native bee monitoring—this presentation examines how nonformal environmental education can support engagement with environmental science and stewardship. Across these contexts, adults engaged in experiential learning that emphasized relevance, iterative […]

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Finding our Way within a Changing Landscape: Faculty Responses to Generative AI RSVP: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8erHipMYj5bSYaq Date: Friday, February 27th, 2026 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Location: PCN 2012 Description: Generative AI (Gen AI) platforms have upended traditional ways of teaching across all disciplines in higher education. Several university assignments and assessment measures have been rendered obsolete by publicly available LLMs that can produce outputs for class assignments within seconds. AI Literacy has emerged as one way for faculty to orient themselves within this new landscape. Emerging definitions of AI Literacy go beyond understanding the functionality of GenAI or its potential for public […]