2025 Open Education Week
Series: Open Education This Week
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Open Education Week (“OE Week”) is an international celebration of the global Open Education Movement and its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Join the UBC Library and CTLT this March 2025 for many different workshops and opportunities to actively share and learn about the ongoing (more…)
Foundations of Pedagogy: February-April 2025
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Online Click “Register Now” to apply. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email by January 20, 2025. Application closes on January 13, 2025. At the end of the one-term course, you will be able to use concepts in evidence-based teaching to effectively teach (more…)
Accessibility Drop-In: March 10, 2025
Series: Accessibility Online Open Education This Week
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Online Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible and barrier free for all learners? Join us for an informal drop-in where you can chat with accessibility consultants, educational designers, and colleagues about accessibility. The accessibility drop-ins are for anyone who is developing course content or open educational resources (OER) and who is (more…)
Creating Accessible OER and Course Materials: What Makes Content Accessible?
Series: Accessibility Online Open Education This Week
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Online Are you updating your course content or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Join us for a workshop about how to design or adapt OER and other learning materials so they are more accessible for all learners. We’ll start with a demonstration of different content styles and formats, (more…)
Inclusive Teaching Exchange – March 11, 2025
Series: Inclusive Teaching Online This Week
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This session is for participants who have completed the asynchronous course, Inclusive Teaching: What is it and Why does it Matter. This informal conversation provides space to connect with your peers and to discuss your insights, bring questions and share your evolving understandings around inclusive teaching. Your CTLT facilitators will support your exploration of your insights, and share other (more…)
GenAI Maker Session: Checking Progress and Evaluating Learning with AI
Series: Generative AI This Week
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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…)
Course Design Studio: Enhancing Learning with the Effective Use of Kaltura Video and Audio
Series: Course Design Studio This Week
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Video and audio applications like Kaltura (UBC’s media platform) can play an important role in fostering student engagement and improving student learning outcomes. Kaltura enables users to create, manage, and share engaging media content to easily develop flexible and interactive learning opportunities for students both within Canvas and beyond. In this session we will explore (more…)
Generative AI Studios – March 12, 2025
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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…)
Inclusive Teaching: Generative AI and Universal Design for Learning in Teaching and Learning – March 13, 2025
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In this 90-minute workshop, we will introduce you to the exciting intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in education. Discover how AI can be harnessed to enhance the teaching and learning experience and make it more inclusive for all, while following UDL Principles. By the end of the workshop, you (more…)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Online Drop-In) – March 13
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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…)