DIY Media Support Session – July 27th 2016
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Are you working on an educational media project? Are you planning to produce media content for your course but don’t know how to start? UBC Studios is offering a support session where professional media specialists can provide answers to your media production questions. If you are wondering where to start on a media production, what (more…)
Applications of Data Science in Education
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Education research thrives when we can collect data that explain learning outcomes in terms of learning processes. How should we sequence the skills taught in a curriculum? Should recency of information from students affect our predictions of their mastery? How can students provide valid and reliable assessments of each other’s work? Are there individual differences among students in how they (more…)
Writing Assignment Design: Start to Finish (Working Group)
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This three-part working group is offered by the Writing Across the Curriculum Program (WAC). The WAC is a TLEF-funded collaboration between the Faculty of Science and the Writing Centre designed to support the teaching and learning of writing in the sciences (http://scwrl.ubc.ca/wac/).
Strategies for Student Success
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This two-hour workshop focuses on teaching and mentoring strategies for helping students develop a better writing process. Participants will consider how to structure writing assignments to help students better engage with scientific concepts, more thoughtfully plan their writing and arguments and take greater responsibility for the development of their writing skills. These workshops are offered (more…)
Writing Assignment and Assessment Design
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This three-hour workshop introduces best practices for designing more effective science writing assignments, including the importance of context, active thinking and learning strategies, and assessment (e.g. rubrics). During the workshop, participants have the opportunity to assess the design of their own assignment and receive feedback from peers.
Educators can register for any or all of the workshops in the summer series at: https://survey.ubc.ca/s/wacworkshops_summer2016/. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants per workshop.
Mid July Graduate Student Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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This 3-day workshop consists of teaching practice, theory application, and topical sessions specifically relevant to Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students at UBC.
Creating a Course in edX – July 25 2016
Series: Learning Technology
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For a list of upcoming edX sessions, click here.
UBC is adding edX to the “evolving ecosystem of learning technology platforms, tools and applications on campus”. edX can be used to provide a blended learning experience for campus-based courses, as well as UBC online and distance courses. In each of these sessions we will be highlighting a tool or functionality of the edX Edge platform and then provide you with a space for hands-on work and guided support.
In this session, we will explore how to create a course using edX’s web-authoring tool Studio. We will explore such topics as structural hierarchy of an edX course, managing content publishing, and controlling content visibility.
Creating Accessible Content in edX – July 6 2016
Series: Learning Technology
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For a list of upcoming edX sessions, click here.
UBC is adding edX to the “evolving ecosystem of learning technology platforms, tools and applications on campus”. edX can be used to provide a blended learning experience for campus-based courses, as well as UBC online and distance courses. In each of these sessions we will be highlighting a tool or functionality of the edX Edge platform and then provide you with a space for hands-on work and guided support.
In this session, we will explore accessibility best practices for HTML and other course content, image and media accessibility, accessibility for mathematical content, universal design for learning, other details about making course content fully accessible.
Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment (T-BLE) – Summer 2016
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Are you thinking of blending your course? Join us in Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment (T-BLE).
T-BLE is a short, immersive blended course aimed at instructors who are already teaching in the classroom and are considering moving to a blended environment. The course runs for six weeks and is delivered in a blended format – a combination of online and face-to-face sessions.
Late July Graduate Student Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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This 3-day workshop consists of teaching practice, theory application, and topical sessions specifically relevant to Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students at UBC.