The University of British Columbia

This workshop will build on the basic concepts of argumentation covered in Critical Thinking I, and focus on making a reasoned judgment based on an appropriate treatment of objections and rebuttals.

This is an up-close and personal look at the thoughts and feelings that come with taking a consulting engagement.

We hear that students are different now, but what does that really mean? We will examine some recent descriptions of students, then compare those descriptions to Perry’s epistemic development model.

This session will explore the wide range of issues raised by using photos and images online, including basics of digital photography and editing and enhancing photos.

This will be a very interactive session!Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a strategy that can bring the powerful outcomes of small group discussion and team work effectively to large class settings.

This session will describe what authors are permitted to do with their scholarship in the digital arena, how they can manage their copyright and end with trends and developments in publishing.

Did you know that there are many big companies and academic institutions that use WordPress for their webspace? eBay, Yahoo, Harvard Law School, MIT, Ford, Wall Street Journal, Sony-this list goes on!

The goal of the workshop is reinforce the basic concepts of critical thinking and to illustrate how to enhance student learning by using critical thinking assignments and class participation.

Being interviewed by the media can be intimidating. While there are clear benefits to being in the news, professors and researchers are often concerned about being misquoted, or taken out of context.

Join us for a discussion about how you can be more productive in your application of the new technologies both hardware and software.

There are lots of great reasons for educators to borrow techniques from theatre. Theatre tools and games can help open and close a class; they can build community.

With increasing instructor workloads, understandably many faculty turn to multiple choice(MCQ)testing to reduce their marking workload. However, many MC questions only test what students can remember.

What does Academic Integrity mean to you? Have you had any issues with your students and/or colleagues such as plagiarism, cheating, and other "unfair sharing"?

UBC's classrooms are becoming increasingly socially and culturally diverse. Many instructors, however, have not had the opportunity to develop skills for working with cross-cultural communication.

In this session, we will look at research about teaching and learning, citing examples of well conducted studies as well as claims that are based more on folk lore than research.