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The UBC ski and snowboard club is a non-profit, democratic, student-run organization dedicated to promoting the sports of skiing and snowboarding and the associated lifestyle. We endeavor to make skiing and snowboarding accessible and fun by actively seeking out the best deals and discounts for our members as well as organizing trips to local ski areas and setting up numerous social events. Come on one of our legendary trips and explore the glory of riding in British Columbia – or join us in the bar to discover the true meaning of debauchery! Ask your room mate, ask your parents, ask the RCMP, “who has the most fun at UBC?” you’ll get the same answer: the ski and snowboard club!!

History
Since the early 2000 online education has been a goal for education. Earlier projects offering university level courses online, "Fathom" developed by Columbia University, failed in 2003 and AllLearn in 2006. The AllLearn project was a consortium of Stanford, Yale and Oxford Universities. This was an ambitious online learning project which provided 110 high-quality enrichment courses from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities for modest fees to over 10,000 participants from seventy countries.

Current Online education is being pioneered by several major players. The first program was the for-profit Udacity (at the time, Know Labs), which launched a course mirroring the Stanford AI course in the fall of 2011. Coursera]], a similar VC-backed commercial venture, launched shortly after Udacity; edX followed shortly afterwards by offering a number of non-certificate-granting programs, similar to Khan Academy, MIT OCW (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare), and CMU OLI (Carnegie-Mellon Univeristy's Open Learning Initiative).

Category:University of British Columbia Category:Snowboarding Category:Skiing

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