=) a a ace UNBC NOTES The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 11, 1995 - B9 Teamwork, tech drives advances By Margaret Anderson Margaret Anderson is north. west regional coordinator of the University of Northern British Columbia, "On December 15 the University Senate gave official approval to the Bachelor of Technology Man- agement programme. .. This program is the culmination of a partnership between School District 80 (Kitimat), Northwest Community College, and UNBC. The school district is providing enriched education in the area of .technology, NWCC is offering a diploma program in technology, and UNBC is laddering that dip- Joma into a unique degree pro- gramme that provides an in- “tegrated education for students that is also relevant to the work- ‘place, ‘In Kitamaat Village the first ever university credit course in the Haisla language stars this month, While many people have “worked hard to make this pos- sible, special recognition goes to ~~ two people: Louise Smith, the ed- ucation coordinator for the com- munily and Professor Emmon Bach of UNBC’s First Nations Studies Program. Bach will also teach two fourth year courses in first Nations ‘Studies in New Ajyansh. Pros- pective students out there who would value an opportunity to . work with this eminent scholar might want lo look into catching a tide up the Nisga’a highway with him each week and joining one of these courses. The Wilp Wilxo’askwhl Nisga’a has completed its first full term of university credit of- ferings with wonderful results. A full program of first year courses was offered New Aiyansh, and Nisga’a language courses were offered in Prince Rupert and Van- couver, A cullure course was also available in Prince Rupert. These courses had the highest “¢tnrollments of .any of UNBC courses. in the northwest —— thanks and congratulations to the ' staff and students of the WWN! ~ The other commitments to the northwest are also coming closer - SMALL... Margaret Ande7yson to fulfillment — the Northwest Maritime Institute in Prince Rupert is slowly but surely moving through the university’s governance processes. It has taken a long time to ex- amine the various options for organizing the institute, and I know that it will soon begin to repay the energy that has been put into it by community members, the college and the university. If all goes well we should see some small working groups of university and college faculty with invited researchers from government, First Nations and the private sector coming together in the New Year to formulate priorities for research in selected sectors, and to begin the process of grant-writing and fund-raising. In the long run, the biggest news for the region may come in the smallest box - about the size of a television camera! The Interactive Video Distance educalion trial will begin this month from a specially equipped room on the Terrace campus of NWCC, Sort of a high-tech answer to the question of how to be in three places at one time, this system is going to make a big difference in access to degree completion in the Northwest. During the fall term UNBC had five courses available in Terrace so that students could progress but get towards degree completion either full or part time. Starting. in Janu- ary there will be triple the number . of course offerings available in Terrace - 15, The courses are selected from a wide array of programs: Cam- merce, English, Environmental Studies, First Nations Studies, Geography, Nursing and Psychol-— ogy. This first Interactive Video Dis- tance session has already taught us some things; one important lesson is on the complexities that are introduced into the scheduling process when dealing with video courses that must fit into the timetables of three scparate campuses — oh no, a single schedule change in one centre tums into a nightmare of falling dominos! We learned quickly that com- promises in wish lists for courses and timetables would have to be made, At the same time, the schedules for the face-to-face courses in Terrace had to be worked araund the distance schedule because there will be four courses in this trial taught by faculty from the northwest. The instructors are excited about this new and exciting op- portunity ta expand the bound- aries of their classrooms, and have been working hard to ensure that the course materials are ‘‘fust so”’ to present on camera, As Regional Coordinator I am watching the Interactive Video trial with keen interest because I believe that it offers great pos- sibilities for the Northwest. If UNBC’s faculty can teach from the Northwest onto this network and reach students in Quesnel and Prince George, and eventually other centres as well, then the current constraints on faculty locations are immediately trans- cended, A faculty member whose re- search interests are relevant to the northwest can live and work here, even though he or she may be a crucial instructor in a program of- fered elsewhere. - It: will: also make. it possible for the university to be accountable. - for the investment that the pro- vince (also known as the tax- payers!) is making in the salaries paid to faculty members, by cnsuring that cach faculty mem- ber can reach a maximum num- bers of students, If this trial of the Interactive Video Distance teaching system warks well, possibilities open up ‘for other communilics as well, The Communily Skills Centres that are being planned in centres around the province under the Skills Now initiative will house the technology required to con- necl with interactive video class- rooms, and this will further in- crease the flexibility and integra- tion of the system, _ CORRECTION ‘n this week's ‘January Sale’ flyer the’Corelle' Open Stock Dinnerware teatuted on page 2 is not as illustated. 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