{"id":4550,"date":"2014-10-18T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2014-10-18T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T16:19:18","slug":"innovations-in-undergraduate-learning-sfu-public-square-simon-fraser-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/10\/18\/innovations-in-undergraduate-learning-sfu-public-square-simon-fraser-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations in Undergraduate Learning &#8211; SFU Public Square &#8211; Simon Fraser University"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/publicsquare\/community-summit\/2014-summit\/breaking-the-mould.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1411170345621.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m going to be interviewed at next week&#8217;s Innovation in Undergraduate Education conference. They are good questions. How would you answer them?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">What is the most compelling innovation in undergraduate learning that you have seen?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">What are three changes Canadian post-secondary institutions can make today to support undergraduate student-centered learning?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/publicsquare\/community-summit\/2014-summit\/breaking-the-mould.html\">Innovations in Undergraduate Learning &#8211; SFU Public Square &#8211; Simon Fraser University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4550'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4550);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>1 person likes this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4550);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4550);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m going to be interviewed at next week&#8217;s Innovation in Undergraduate Education conference. They are good questions. How would you answer them? What is the most compelling innovation in undergraduate learning that you have seen? What are three changes Canadian &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/10\/18\/innovations-in-undergraduate-learning-sfu-public-square-simon-fraser-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,81,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4557,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/25\/innovations-in-undergraduate-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":4550,"position":0},"title":"Innovations in Undergraduate Learning","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A few months ago I presented\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Innovations in Undergraduate Learning \u00a0summit\u00a0\u2013 SFU Public Square \u2013 Simon Fraser University. 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