Karin Schmidlin
University of
British Columbia
Vancouver BC, Canada
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INFO 300
Information & Data Design
In the winter semester of 2023, I joined UBC's School of Information as a sessional instructor to teach the undergraduate course INFO 300, part of the new Minor in Informatics, open to any UBC undergraduate student.
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LIBR 555
Information Design 1: Systems
The goal of this graduate course is to develop within students a user-centred design perspective that can be used to optimally frame the logical and physical design of systems in a variety of information environments.
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After 9 wonderful years at the University of Waterloo, I will be moving back to Vancouver, BC to pursue my Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. I'm interested in researching how artificial intelligence can support (rather than replace) teachers and improve the overall learning experience.
My company, Carbonlabs, was hired for a project with an Ontario educational institution to move their entire executive development program online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We were lucky to be able to hire two recent graduates, former students of mine, from the Global Business and Digital Arts program at the University of Waterloo's School of Interaction Design and Business.
I wanted to start a sticker contest on the subject of Stay Home in the early days of the lockdown to help my students keep their spirits up. I let the crowd vote on the winner after receiving over 50 submissions, then had the stickers printed and mailed to everyone who wanted one. Rachel Xu, a second-year GBDA student, was the winner!
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