Exploring How Canvas Analytics Can Be Used to Improve Teaching and Learning Outcomes – June 26 2018


Event Date & Time

  • June 26, 2018
    12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Event Description

⚒ Hands-on Session Canvas course analytics and quiz statistics are potentially useful tools for understanding how students are engaging with course materials and designs. This information can be used for better insight into, and assessment of, effective online teaching and design methods as well as identifying specific areas of challenge and success for students. This workshop (more…)

DIY Media Support Session – June 29th 2016


Event Date & Time

  • June 29, 2016
    10:00 am - 11:30 am

Event Description

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…)

Writing Assignment Design: Start to Finish (Working Group)


Event Date & Time

  • June 14, 2016 - August 12, 2016
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Description

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/).

Providing Effective Feedback on Writing Assignments


Event Date & Time

  • June 22, 2016
    10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Event Description

This three-hour workshop introduces feedback strategies that focus on using educator time efficiently and encouraging students to both use feedback and take responsibility for the quality of their science writing. The workshop benefits both new and experienced educators by providing participants the opportunity to reflect on their current feedback strategies and to practice some strategies (more…)

ComPAIR Workshop


Event Date & Time

  • June 23, 2016
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Event Description

ComPAIR Workshop – Try out a new technology for student peer feedback and review ComPAIR is a new online learning technology for peer review that asks students to answer a question, then compare pairs of of their peers’ answers to identify which is “better” based on instructor-set criteria. In doing so, students are also prompted (more…)

Creating a Course in edX – June 23 2016


Event Date & Time

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    June 23, 2016
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Description

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.

edX Studio: Integrate edX into your Connect Course – June 6 2016


Event Date & Time

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    June 6, 2016
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Description

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 (more…)

Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment (T-BLE) – Summer 2016


Event Date & Time

  • June 3, 2016 - July 29, 2016
    8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Event Description

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.

Using In-Class Student Behaviour Data to Inform Predictive Analytics


Event Date & Time

  • June 28, 2016
    2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Event Description

Student behaviour during class is being monitored at the University of Michigan using the Echo360 Active Learning Platform. This presentation discusses how these data are combined with data from other on-campus and off-campus sources and mined to develop models for predicting student success based on a student’s background and behaviours during class.  The goal is (more…)

June Graduate Student Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)


Event Date & Time

  • June 4, 2016 - June 12, 2016
    8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Event Description

*** Please note that the dates of this event are June 4, 11, 12 2016.  To register, please click on the link below to fill out an application ** Workshop Overview: This 3-day workshop consists of teaching practice, theory application, and topical sessions specifically relevant to Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students at UBC.  During the workshop (more…)