Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer about Your Course – May 30, 2024
Series: Learning Design Online
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Online Do you have questions and challenges about creating meaningful and successful learning experiences for your students? Maybe you want help in the process of teaching your course in online, hybrid or blended modes. Request a virtual one on one course consultation with a Learning Designer to explore ways to enhance your students’ learning experience. (more…)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Online Drop-In) – May 30, 2024
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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…)
Cultivating the Wellbeing of Students and Teachers Through Simple but Effective Wellbeing Pedagogies and Practices
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Integrating wellbeing into learning environments is foundational to supporting the whole student- achieving deeper learning, academic success and personal growth. UBC’s 2023 Teaching Practices survey found those with teaching responsibilities overwhelmingly agreed (over 90%) that teaching practices have an impact (more…)
Reducing Ableism One PowerPoint at a Time
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. We often speak about culturally responsive practices, universal design, and universal design for learning. But much of it may seem too hard, too much, or too overwhelming to even consider. Per the newest numbers by Statistics Canada (2022), there are (more…)
Designing Safer, More Effective Teamwork Activities in the Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Do you use teamwork to make your class more interactive? Teamwork has been shown to be very supportive of student learning and development, however, students share mixed feelings about working in groups. Using the principles of UDL and trauma-aware approaches, (more…)
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Education at UBC
Series: CTLT Institute Online
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. How are UBC faculty innovating in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education so that students are best prepared to tackle complex sustainability challenges in their careers? Students working in the sustainability field are expected to: Have specific technical knowledge and skillsets Bring (more…)
Supporting Climate Education Through a Novel Framework of Climate Kind Pedagogy
Series: CTLT Institute Online
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. The climate crisis, the pandemic, and related social inequities indicate the need for education that teaches compassion and care towards the planet. Climate change and the related social impacts have necessitated a re-think of traditional pedagogies. University educators are faced (more…)
Sharing Back Our Knowledge: Development of the Indigenous Learning Pathways Training Program
Series: CTLT Institute Indigenous Initiatives
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Launching in Summer 2024, Indigenous Learning Pathways (ILP) is a multi-course online training program led by CTLT Indigenous Initiatives and the Orientations & Onboarding program in Central HR, and involving collaboration and support from numerous staff, faculty, and programs across (more…)
Refining Your Research Question & Exploring SoTL/TAR Methods – June 4, 2024
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TAR Workshops are designed to give interns authentic teaching experiences and to apply their understanding of evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom or in an informal science education or outreach setting. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, together with their teaching partner, identify a challenge to student learning in the classroom, develop new teaching resources or (more…)
CEL at Scale: Developing Community Engaged Learning Beyond the Individual Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. This panel brings together faculty members from across the university to discuss work they have done to develop Community Engaged Learning (CEL) initiatives at scale. CEL is an increasingly popular and celebrated pedagogy–known for increasing ethical and civic awareness among (more…)