UBC Extended Learning

Curious about a career in coaching or looking to enhance your leadership skills through a coaching approach?

Join our free Organizational Coaching Information Session on June 4 to learn more about the UBC Certificate in Organizational Coaching and how it can help you develop the skills to support individual, team and organizational growth.

📅 June 4

Register today and take the first step toward developing impactful coaching skills: https://bit.ly/3RyCm1d

The tech landscape is evolving fast. Are your skills keeping pace?

This June, explore the technologies transforming organizations across industries:

☁️ AI Cloud Strategy & Technology Implementation (June 16)
🔒 Cybersecurity Risk Management (June 16)
📊 Data Science & AI-Assisted Development Workshop: Practices & Pitfalls (June 28)

Build practical knowledge, learn from experienced instructors and gain insights you can apply right away.

Register today and invest in your future:
AI Cloud Strategy & Technology Implementation: https://bit.ly/4vn377h
Cybersecurity Risk Management: https://bit.ly/4vlZT3P
Data Science & AI-Assisted Development Workshop: Practices & Pitfalls: https://bit.ly/4u7e1gj

Ready to level up your language skills this summer? 🌎☀️

Don’t miss the early bird deadline for summer language courses and register by June 2. Whether you’re learning for travel, work or personal growth, there’s a course for every level.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4ddgXSg

Learning often begins with curiosity.✨ It can also become a way to better understand the world around us and the systems we navigate every day.

For Kelly Chhor, the UBC Certificate in Equity Diversity and Inclusion offered space to reflect, ask deeper questions and connect personal experiences to meaningful change. Through the program, Kelly gained practical tools, new perspectives and the confidence to contribute to conversations about equity and belonging in both professional and community spaces.

As we wrap up this month’s Learning That Fits Real Life series, we are highlighting how learning can support growth beyond career goals by creating opportunities for reflection, connection and impact.

We’re excited to invite you to the UBC Centre for Equitable Systems Design Annual Conference: Equity and Inclusion at Work: Now What?

Join us for a day of inspiring conversations, fresh perspectives and meaningful connection around equity and inclusion in the workplace.

We’re especially thrilled to welcome Dr. Hazel Symonette, PhD, as our keynote speaker to open the day. Widely respected in the field, Dr. Symonette brings decades of experience in equity-focused education and leadership.

Throughout the conference, you’ll hear from a range of speakers sharing insights, experiences and ideas that connect research, practice and lived experience, while encouraging thoughtful dialogue and reflection.

📅 Friday, May 29
🕘 9:00 am–3:30 pm
💻 Online

Register today: https://bit.ly/4dC3Zxq

A lot of learning is tied to outcomes.

A better job. A stronger resume. A specific goal. But not all learning needs to be productive in that way.

Sometimes, it starts with a small moment of curiosity; a topic you keep coming back to, a skill you’ve always wanted to try or something that simply interests you.

When you follow that curiosity, learning feels different. Less forced. More engaging. Easier to stick with.

And often, more meaningful in the long run.

This is your reminder that it’s okay to learn something just because you want to.

✨ What’s something you’re curious about right now?

Starting May 26 ✨

Big data is changing the way health care works from how doctors make decisions to how systems improve patient care at scale.

In Introduction to the Big Data Era and Opportunities for Better Health Care, explore how data is being used to uncover insights, improve outcomes and drive innovation across the health sector.

If you are interested in health, technology or data-driven change this course is a great starting point.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/48SwiGt

UBC is working to restore access to Canvas, our Learning Management System, following last week’s cyber incident. Some Extended Learning students could get access as early as today.

Students should continue to check their email for updates and instructions from instructors or staff. Those students in courses that were moved to an alternative Learning Management System will continue in that platform until completion of their course.

Summer learning is often framed as catching up or getting ahead. But it doesn’t have to be either.

It can be slower. Lighter. More open-ended.

A chance to explore something you’ve been curious about without worrying about outcomes, timelines or expectations.

When learning feels low-pressure, something shifts.

You engage more naturally. You stay with it longer. You enjoy the process. And sometimes, that’s where the most meaningful learning happens.

This summer, try approaching learning differently.

Not as something you have to do, but something you get to explore.

🌱 What’s something you’ve been curious about lately?