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

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Online

This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025.

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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 co-creators alongside 65 faculty and 23 staff. This panel discussion brings together voices from these partnerships to reflect on the transformative impact of co-creation in higher education. Panelists will share insights into how these experiences have shaped their teaching, learning, and curricular practices—both in the moment and in their ongoing work. Looking back at past projects and forward to the future of partnership-based course design, this session will explore how engaging students as co-creators can enhance teaching, deepen learning, and drive meaningful educational change. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify key benefits and challenges of student-faculty partnerships in course redesign.
• Reflect on how partnership approaches can influence teaching, learning, and curriculum development.
• Explore strategies for embedding student partnerships into future educational initiatives.

 

Panelists:

• Dr. Caroline Lebrec, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Arts
• Savindya Mudadeniya, Student, Faculty of Arts
• Shreya Diwan, Student, Faculty of Science
• Rohil Sharma, Alumni, Faculty of Arts
• Dr. Robyn Newell, Assistant Professor of Teaching, School of Biomedical Engineering
• Jessica Tran, Master’s Student, Faculty of Applied Science
• Roselynn Verwoord, Curriculum Consultant, Students as Partners Strategist, CTLT

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Note to Non-UBC Participants:

In order to register for this program, non-UBC faculty, staff, and students will need to create a UBC Basic CWL. To do this, please go to the CWL page and scroll down to the accordion tab that reads “Basic”. Follow the instructions there for creating and activating a Basic CWL, then please return to this page to register for the program.