Generative AI

This year, AI has emerged as a significant tool in education, and faculty at UBC are grappling with its integration in the classroom. The UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) has introduced a new educational series, GenAI in Teaching and Learning. This series aims to help educators transition from concerns to understanding to seeing the opportunities generative AI presents.  

This series is offering: 

  • Weekly GenAI Support Clinics: One-hour drop-in clinics on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others, every Wednesday. 
  • Integrating GenAI in Education at UBC 30+30 Workshops: 30-minute interactive presentations followed by 30-minutes of discussion designed to assist faculty and staff in navigating this new landscape. 
  • AI in Teaching and Learning website: A hub for ongoing support and up-to-date tools and resources for leveraging Generative AI for teaching and learning. 

*CANCELLED* Generative AI Studios – January 22, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    January 22, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Event Description

Online *THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED* These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 (more…)

GenAI Staff Community of Practice – January 23, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    January 23, 2025
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Event Description

Online Join our GenAI Staff Community of Practice! Are you a UBC staff member from CTLT, LTHub, or involved in the teaching and learning space, such as instructional designers, educational developers, and faculty support. Are you curious about Generative AI or eager to share your experiences with these tools? We invite you to join our (more…)

Helping Students Develop Evaluative Judgment Through Generative AI Hallucinations and Inaccuracies


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    January 29, 2025
    12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Description

Participants will learn strategies to use Generative AI outputs as a pedagogical tool to help students critically evaluate information and enhance their evaluative judgment skills. Generative AI tools, while impressively confident in their outputs, often produce inaccuracies or “hallucinations,” with accuracy rates as low as 70%. These imperfections present an opportunity to foster critical thinking (more…)

*CANCELLED* Generative AI Studios – January 29, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    January 29, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Event Description

Online *THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED* These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 (more…)

Embracing the Outlier Mindset: Suspicious Curiosity Implementing AI in Education Ecosystems


Event Date & Time

  • IN-PERSON
    January 30, 2025
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Event Description

In-person AI and Education Seminar Series: Tools, Impacts, and Future – The Centre for Teaching and Learning and UBC ICICS Centre for Artificial Intelligence Decision-making and Action The AI and Education seminars are designed to bring together scholars and educators from across the UBC campus to discuss the future of education in light of new (more…)

GenAI in Teaching and Learning Symposium


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    February 3, 2025
    9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Event Description

Online As generative AI continues to impact higher education, UBC faculty across both Vancouver and Okanagan campuses are thoughtfully exploring its implications for teaching and learning. Join us for a day of critical discussion, evidence sharing, and collaborative learning about the opportunities and challenges that Generative AI presents in our academic environment. This symposium brings (more…)

*CANCELLED* Generative AI Studios – February 5, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    February 5, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Event Description

Online *THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED* These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 (more…)

GenAI Maker Session: Checking Progress and Evaluating Learning with AI

Series: Generative AI


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    February 12, 2025
    12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Event Description

Explore how generative AI, including Microsoft Co-Pilot and ChatGPT, can be used to design and evaluate formative assessments that enhance student learning and engagement. Join this hands-on session to delve into the integration of generative AI as a formative assessment tool. As large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI become more prevalent, formative assessment takes on (more…)

Generative AI Studios – February 12, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    February 12, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Event Description

Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights (more…)

Generative AI Studios – February 19, 2025


Event Date & Time

  • ONLINE
    February 19, 2025
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Event Description

Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights (more…)