CTLT Events Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
Series: Online Professional Development for Faculty Professional Development for Grad Students Professional Development for Staff
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This self-paced online course aims to support a broad and diverse group of instructors – faculty, staff and students – in their teaching and learning professional development. This asynchronous course is offered on an ongoing basis. Please note that the current offering is developed for those who are beginning to teach and are looking to (more…)
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Come join us at our daily drop-in demo sessions, where you can learn more about the Emerging Media Lab and try out some VR/AR experiences! This event is open to anyone from the UBC community, including staff, students, and faculty. Location: Emerging Media Lab, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Room 183 (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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This session aims to increase proficiency with the lesson planning process. We will discuss a variety of lesson planning frameworks that can be employed in a number of educational contexts. This session will address alignment between lesson plans, learning objectives and course assessment. You will get a chance to evaluate sample lesson plans and then (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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In this workshop, we will introduce Community Engaged Learning, an experiential learning pedagogy where students have an opportunity to apply their academic earning within or in close collaboration with a community context, emphasizing mutual benefit, civic engagement and all parties sharing in the teaching and learning process. We will explore the values and principles necessary (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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Join this lively discussion symposium to explore how to promote wellbeing for all involved in teaching and learning. We will engage in three short roundtable discussions on related topics before we dive in deeper in a facilitated discussion as a large group. The moderators at each round table will help set the context and provide (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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Your syllabus is an important document that introduces the course and you to the students. It also sets forth your responsibilities and those of your students. Though templates exist for syllabus creation, there are many choices and a multitude of subtleties to consider when designing this document. In this session, we explore the characteristics and (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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Developing classroom guidelines is one of the strategies that instructors can take in order to set up a space that is conducive to learning for everyone. This strategy was also recognized as a helpful practice in a student panel session “Equity and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning: Student Perspectives” during the 2019 Celebrate Learning Week. (more…)
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The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving those (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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This session explores how instructors can work with Teaching Assistant (TAs) to support inclusive teaching efforts in classrooms, tutorials and labs. TAs often play an important part in setting the tone for a course, supporting students, and providing instruction in smaller group settings (and one-on-one), which means they have opportunities to consider equity, diversity and (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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Assessment is the most powerful lever that teachers have to influence the way students respond to the course and behave as learners” – Gibbs, 1999 In this session we will explore ways that you can integrate assessment practices in your classes that support student learning. We will explore the concepts of assessment for, or and (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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If you are keen to implement student peer assessment but are uncertain about the technology choices available—or would like to provide feedback on those you have used—please join us at this session. During the first hour, we will provide a short overview with faculty examples of different student peer assessment tools, and you will engage (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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Use of immersive media in medical education has been the focus of a recent collaboration between UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and UBC Studios. Through this collaboration, a series of 360-degree educational videos have been produced that are designed to provide health care students with immersive and emotionally engaging simulated experiences in challenging clinical scenarios. This (more…)
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In this panel discussion we will hear from four faculty members across UBC on their processes and experiences in conducting research on their own teaching: Kristen Walker, PhD – Instructor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Applied Biology Costanza Piccolo, PhD – Instructor, Faculty of Science, Mathematics Tal Jarus, PhD – Professor, Faculty of Medicine, (more…)
Series: CTLT Institute
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This hands-on studio tour will introduce you to the educational media support services available at UBC Studios for all UBC faculty and staff. The Tour/Info Session will begin with a short presentation / Q&A session. Our staff will then guide you through a hands-on tour of the services at the Studio: – Professional Video Production (more…)
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***Click “Register Now” to sign up for the WAITLIST only (being on the waitlist doesn’t guarantee a spot). IF you are chosen to participate, you will be contacted directly by our office by email (between after signing up and by registration closing date)*** Registration for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on Monday July 1 at 9am PST (more…)