Online Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop – January 14, 18, 25 & February 1, 2025 (Preliminary Application)
Series: Next Week Pro-D for Graduate Students
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This ISW is online. Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying. Preliminary Application Process When you submit an application, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and your spot in the workshop is NOT confirmed. If you meet the requirements and are selected as a participant you will receive an email (more…)
Open UBC Working Group – January 2025 Meeting
Series: Next Week Online Open Education
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Online The Open UBC Working Group, which is composed of faculty, students, and staff, meets regularly to advise, communicate, and partner on open education and scholarship activities and projects happening at UBC. In addition to serving as a place of community for those interested in various areas of open scholarship, the working group develops projects (more…)
Qualtrics Studio – January 27, 2025
Series: Learning Technology Next Week Online Qualtrics
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Online UBC supports the Qualtrics survey tool. Qualtrics is a powerful tool that offers UBC faculty, and staff new functionality in survey creation, data analysis, and reporting. Join us for the monthly Qualtrics studio virtual workshop and drop-in session. The session is geared towards UBC faculty and staff using Qualtrics as a teaching and research (more…)
DIY Media Support Drop-In Session – January 29, 2025
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Online Are you working on a media project? Planning to produce video content for your course but don’t know where to start? UBC Studios is offering a drop-in media support session where professional media specialists are available to provide answers to your questions. If you are wondering: Where do I start? What resources are available (more…)
Helping Students Develop Evaluative Judgment Through Generative AI Hallucinations and Inaccuracies
Series: Generative AI Next Week
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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
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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…)
Inclusive Teaching: Introduction to Universal Design for Learning – January 30, 2025
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This is an introductory interactive online workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to discover the essentials of creating inclusive learning environments. This session will guide you through the roots, principles, and practical applications of UDL, offering insights into how to accommodate diverse learning needs in educational settings. Engage with educators and experts in an (more…)
Approaches to Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Classroom
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Registration is full, please add your name to the waitlist here. The Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing (IMHW) team, which is part of UBC Counselling Services, was developed out of a need for resource and counselling support for Indigenous students. The team draws from Two-Eyed Seeing approaches, inclusive of Western clinical/professional training and Indigenous knowledges, (more…)
Embracing the Outlier Mindset: Suspicious Curiosity Implementing AI in Education Ecosystems
Series: Generative AI Next Week
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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…)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Online Drop-In) – January 30, 2025
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Online 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 (more…)