Celebrate Learning Week

Celebrate Learning Week is an initiative to celebrate the teaching and learning opportunities at UBC. Members of the UBC teaching and learning community are encouraged to attend and participate in Celebrate Learning Week by either attending and/or coordinating events. Events include: open lectures, information sessions, student advising activities, poster sessions, workshops and more. For more info visit https://celebratelearning.ubc.ca

Exploring Faculty Wellbeing: Stories and Strategies for Academic and Personal Wellbeing


Event Date & Time

  • IN-PERSON
    May 6, 2025
    1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Event Description

In-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Stress is a common part of being a faculty member, but how are you coping? Do you feel your wellbeing is under siege and not sure what to do about it? In this panel session, faculty (more…)

Teaching Snapshots


Event Date & Time

  • MULTI-ACCESS
    May 7, 2025
    9:00 am - 10:30 am

Event Description

Multi-access (UBCO) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. This lighting talk session features UBC Okanagan faculty sharing successes with bringing about meaningful change in teaching and course design. Talks will address one of the following themes: effective teaching practices, decolonization or reconciliation in the (more…)

Students as Partners in Course Re-Design: Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Impact of Student-Faculty Partnerships at UBC


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    May 7, 2025
    10:00 am - 11:30 am

Event Description

Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. What happens when students, faculty, and staff collaborate as equal partners in course design? From 2022 to 2025, UBC Vancouver’s Students as Partners Initiative funded 52 course redesign projects across 10 faculties, engaging 133 undergraduate students as (more…)

Introduction to the SEI Dashboard: Making Sense of Student Feedback through Visualizations


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    May 7, 2025
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Event Description

Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Student feedback is essential for enhancing teaching and learning experiences. This workshop will introduce the SEI metrics and demonstrate how they support instructors to make sense of the student feedback they receive. Participants will have the opportunity (more…)

Explore How to Embed the Experience & Involvement Portfolio into Curricular/Co-Curricular EE


Event Date & Time

  • IN PERSON
    May 7, 2025
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Event Description

In-Person (UBCO) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Join us for an interactive session where we showcase a new technology platform designed to help students build their Experience & Involvement Portfolio—a tool that captures a student’s learning and development across curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular (more…)

Faculty Panel – Cross Faculty Collaborations: Innovations for Cultivating Growth


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    May 7, 2025
    11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Event Description

Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. In this panel you will hear from faculty speak about their experience of collaborating across disciplines to initiate meaningful change in program design, local communities, as well as how collaboration impacts the student experience. This conversation will (more…)

Course Design Studio: Assessment Strategies for Large Enrolment Classes


Event Date & Time

  • IN-PERSON
    May 7, 2025
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Event Description

In-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5–9, 2025. Managing assessments in large enrolment classes can be challenging, especially if you’re used to teaching smaller enrolment courses. In this Course Design Studio, we will share the strategies and tips for effective and manageable assessment in large enrolment (more…)

Academic Integrity in the Disciplines


Event Date & Time

  • MULTI-ACCESS
    May 7, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Event Description

Multi-access (UBCO) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. The Academic Integrity Matters (AIM) program at UBCO provides educational support for students to learn and apply best practices for academic integrity, offering a supportive intervention for students before disciplinary measures are taken for academic integrity (more…)

Fostering Neurodiversity Affirming Teaching Approaches


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    May 7, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Event Description

Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to neurodiversity as an umbrella concept, and the impact of neurodivergence on student learning. Together, we will consider how to foster a neurodiversity affirming classroom environment. We will explore (more…)

Scripting Collaborative Writing to Foster Student Learning and Student Resilience


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    May 7, 2025
    2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Event Description

Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Do you want your students to enjoy working together and producing collaborative texts that showcase their best work? Are you afraid of being “that instructor” who assigns collaborative work that students loathe — that they experience as (more…)