<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Greetings</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The </span><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/med5/#tab_About-0" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Master of Museum Education (MED5)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> program starting September 2018 (application deadline is March 2018) is having an online <b class="">information session</b> on <b class="">Thursday, January 25</b>, 4pm-5:30pm (PDT).</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The MED5 is a part-time, blended cohort graduate program open to domestic and international students – it is delivered 90% online. Focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning context, the programs draws together museum professionals<b class=""><i class=""> </i></b>and 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 style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If you are interested in the MED5 program and would like to learn more, please</span><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/med5/#tab_InfoSession-1" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></a><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED5/#tab_InfoSession-1" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">RSVP</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">to the online info session, which will be held using the BlueJeans conferencing system. </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED5/" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">MM.Ed. | Master of Museum Education (MED5)</span></b></a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(77, 115, 141);" class="">Online 90% | In-Person 10%</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 88, 48);" class="">Begins September 2018 | Apply by <b class="">March 1</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(77, 115, 141);" class="">Develop your capacity for improving Teaching & Learning, Curriculum & Theory, and Pedagogical Practice.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 88, 48);" class="">THE PROGRAM</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">As museums contemplate new roles within society it will be incumbent upon museum professionals, and particularly museum educators, to become catalysts for different ways of thinking about the educational roles and potentials of museums and other informal learning sites, teaching and learning in museum settings as well as exploring new relationships between museums and the broader community.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 25, 52);" class="">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 student’s 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><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 88, 48);" class="">APPLICATION DEADLINE</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 25, 52);" class="">MARCH 1, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 88, 48);" class="">LEARN MORE</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 25, 52);" class="">Visit </span><a href="http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED5/" class="">pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED5</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><span style="color: purple; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 25, 52);" class="">to learn more, or contact Yvette Kharoubeh at </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:yvette.kharoubeh@ubc.ca?subject=Question%20regarding%20the%20MED5%20program" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">yvette.kharoubeh@ubc.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 25, 52);" class=""> with your questions.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;" class=""> </span></p></body></html>