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Edubytes – LTIC and the Vision of Utopian Learning Technology

By Remy Corbet on August 28, 2025

This month, our guest editor is Elisa Baniassad, Academic Director of the Learning Technology Innovation Centre. She shares a summary of her thoughts on the past, present, and future of Learning Technology (LT), and what drove the creation of UBC’s new innovation centre.


Thought exercise: What does learning tech at a utopian university look like? Think Star Fleet Academy. Or imagine the best school you can think of, go out 100 years, and then imagine what the learning tech experience would be like at that school. They’ve somehow made all the right choices, they’ve been unburdened by nostalgia or tradition, or sunk cost fallacies – and they’ve created an environment that is …. Like what? What would it be like?

Read the full post on the LTIC website

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