Our instructors

Anders Kraal

Anders Kraal, PhD, has been a philosophy instructor at UBC since 2015. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral student at the University of Calgary and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching focuses on early modern philosophy (especially Hume and Kant), and he also has a strong interest in Kierkegaard, existentialism and the problem of evil.

Claudia Krebs

DR. Claudia Krebs, MD, PhD, has been teaching neuroanatomy and gross anatomy to MD undergraduates, biomedical engineering students and allied health professions at UBC for more than a decade.

At UBC, she has worked on integrating technology and novel visual approaches in the classroom. She’s particularly interested in the integration of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), as well as examining the impact of AR and VR on student learning.

In 2017, Dr. Krebs created the HIVE (Hackspace for Innovation and Visualization in Education), a multidisciplinary space for innovation in biomedical education. The HIVE team has created educational extended reality (xR) apps, such as the HoloBrain and the Pocket Pelvis, that have been adapted as learning resources.

Together with UBC colleagues, she has published a neuroscience textbook with a set of accompanying flashcards that’s used in classrooms around the world. With anatomy educators from across UBC and from partner universities, she‘s creating open educational resources for neuroscience and anatomy for the global community, including videos, e-books and interactive web materials. All of these materials are available on two websites she curates, neuroanatomy.ca and clinicalanatomy.ca.

Dr. Krebs has received numerous teaching awards, including the 2018 Killam Teaching Prize.

Julie Lampitt

Jose Lara

Bomae Lee

Joan Li

Joan Li is from Beijing, China and has a Masters in Applied Linguistics. She has mainly been involved in language teaching and translation in China, Japan and Canada. Since joining UBC Extended Learning in 2005, she has taught Mandarin as well as Chinese characters courses.

Siliang Liu

Celine Liu holds a Master of Science degree from the University of British Columbia. She is an applied scientist at Amazon. She is passionate about building revolutionary solutions for online beauty shopping experiences. Before joining Amazon, she graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) with degrees in computational linguistics and computer science. Besides her interests in STEM, Celine used to be a soprano and piano player for over 10 years. 

Connie Lo

Nathan Lockhart

Nathan Lockhart, MA, CEC, is a learning professional and certified executive coach with more than 20 years of experience. He specializes in the design and delivery of experiential training both in live, virtual classes and in online self-guided courses. He also provides one-on-one coaching to executives on topics related to leadership, communication, and negotiations.

A former employee of Health Canada and the Privy Council Office, Nathan’s knowledge spans a number of disciplines, including public policy development, negotiation, issues management, and strategic communications. He’s a dynamic public speaker with a strong understanding of workplace challenges and demands facing professionals and has delivered more than 500 workshops to organizations in the private, non-government, and government sectors.

Terence Lowe

Terence (he/him) is the Program Leader, the Centre for Equitable Systems Design (CESD) at UBC Extended Learning managing the equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI), anti-racism and intercultural communication programming. Terence overseas the delivery of learner-centred teaching methodologies, facilitator training and support, and instructional content for the CESD’s courses, online certificate programs, and organizational development programming.

Terence has worked extensively in community-engaged learning and EDI work as an educator, consultant, advisor, trainer, and facilitator for an array of adult learner programs in higher education and community-based organizations, locally, nationally, and abroad. He firmly believes in inspiring learners to grow in empathy and deep courage to do the work it takes to transform the systems we are in.