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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Hi
<span>BCMA Members</span>,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Iım writing to let you know we have an extension on the application deadline for the<span style="color:#B25927">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED3?utm_source=Direct&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=13-12&#43;MED3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#B25927">Master of Museum Education program (MED4)</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri">
 to <b>March 31</b>.&nbsp; This is a part-time, 2.5 year program <b><i>open to domestic and international students</i></b> ­ it is delivered 90% online.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning context, the programs draws together
<b><i>Museum professionals, educators</i></b> and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around
<b><i>museums as sites of education and learning</i></b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">If possible, could you please share the news of the extended application deadline with
<span>members of the</span> <b><span>BC Museums Association</span></b>,<b> </b>Iıve included the announcement below.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#215868">Heather McGregor<br>
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color:#215868">Professional Development &amp; Community Engagement
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://bit.ly/1PQls3a"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri">MM.Ed. | Master of Museum Education (MED4)</span></b></a></span></p>
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color:#5E869F;text-decoration:none">Online 90% | In-Person 10%</span></span></p>
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color:#AB6C3E">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:#AB6C3E">Begins September 2016 | Apply by
<s>March 1</s> extended to <b>March 31</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://bit.ly/1PQls3a"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:#AB6C3E">pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED4</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#5E869F">Develop your capacity for improving Teaching &amp; Learning, Curriculum &amp; Theory, and Pedagogical Practice.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#AB6C3E">THE PROGRAM
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<span lang="EN-US">The Master of Museum Education is a unique graduate degree program focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning contexts. This program draws together Museum professionals, educators and
 those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.</span></span></p>
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color:#0C2344">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:#0C2344">This program will provide the necessary skills and knowledge for careers as educators in informal settings such as museums, locally and globally, and to support
 classroom-based teachers in expanding their use of the community as a learning site. The program model is one that recognizes the need for contextualizing museum education curriculum in both home country context (which has its own unique social and political
 context) and in the Canadian cultural context of museum education, in which practices may be conceptualized in other beneficial ways to that of the studentıs own country of origin. The end result are graduating students that are then better able to influence
 the systems in their own countries with strengthened capacities to introduce beneficial reforms around museum education.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:#0C2344">March 1, 2016</span></s><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#0C2344"> extended to
<b>MARCH 31</b></span></p>
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color:#0C2344">Visit
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