Upcoming Events

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) provides free in-person and online workshops and events for UBC graduate students, instructors, faculty and staff. Never miss an upcoming event, sign up for the monthly CTLT events newsletter.

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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 and (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Open UBC Working Group"

  • Online
    Date
    March 30, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    April 27, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 25, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 29, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 27, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Facilitators

  • Will Engle
    Strategist, Open Education Initiatives, CTLT
  • Erin Fields
    Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian, UBC Library
  • Rie Namba
    Educational Resource Developer – Open Resources

The UBC CTLT is pleased to partner with SFU, BCcampus and Langara College to host a half-day, online session that builds on successful teaching and learning wellbeing strategies and imagines a future where wellbeing is at the center of the classroom experience. We welcome faculty, instructors, and staff who are integral in shaping the classroom (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Stories for the Future: Celebrating Wellbeing Strategies and Approaches"

  • Online
    Date
    March 31, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 12:15 pm

Facilitators

If you are a postdoctoral fellow, apply for the Postdoc Teaching Practicum. Application opens on September 1 and closes on November 19. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email. What is the Graduate Teaching Practicum? The next Graduate Teaching Practicum cohort will start (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Graduate Teaching Practicum: December 2025 – April 2026"

  • Reflections & Panel Discussion
    Date
    April 2, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm

If you are a graduate student, apply for the Graduate Teaching Practicum. Application opens on September 1 and closes on November 19. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email. What is the Postdoc Teaching Practicum? The next Postdoc Teaching Practicum cohort will start (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Postdoc Teaching Practicum: December 2025 – April 2026"

  • Reflections & Panel Discussion
    Date
    April 2, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm

This ISW is in-person. Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying here. Application for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on February 20th at 9:00 am and closes on April 1st at 4:30 pm. For this ISW you must be registered as a Graduate Student in Winter Session Term 2 (January (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop - April 4, 11, 12 2026 (Sat., Sat., Sun.)"

  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 4, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 11, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 12, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm

The Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom, Exploring Pedagogical Dispositions and Methods to Transformative Justice in the Classroom is a condensed offering of the A-RTL Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom cohort-based program.  In this day long workshop, we will ground our conversations within the body of work of cultural humility and culturally sustaining pedagogies, with a focus (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogies in the Classroom (AA-RPC): Exploring Pedagogical Dispositions and Methods to Transformative Justice in the Classroom"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 8, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Facilitators

  • Renata Hall
    Educational Consultant, Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning, CTLT

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) uses systematic and methodological inquiry into teaching and learning (behaviours/practices, attitudes, and values) with the goal of improving teaching and learning by making findings public (Hutchings, & Shulman, 1999; Potter & Kustra, 2011). During this session, we will: Break down the definition of SoTL Explain how to start (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "An Introduction to SoTL"

  • Online
    Date
    April 15, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:30 am

Facilitators

Communicating your teaching identity—what drives you as an educator and how that shows up in your practice—can be unexpectedly challenging. Yet whether you’re preparing a dossier, applying for an award, or updating your website, being able to clearly express your approach to teaching is essential. This interactive online session explores how generative AI tools can (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Using GenAI to Articulate Your Teaching Approach"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:00 am

Facilitators

  • Judy Chan
    Faculty Associate, Faculty Liaison, Land and Food Systems
  • Isabeau Iqbal
    Senior Educational Consultant: Educational Leadership, CTLT

Creating accessible digital content ensures that students of all abilities can fully engage with course materials. However, many documents, particularly older, scanned, or untagged PDFs, are not compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies.  The Centre for Workplace Accessibility is piloting SensusAccess, a tool that enables UBC faculty, staff, and students to convert print (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Transforming Materials into Accessible Formats with the SensusAccess Pilot"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Facilitators

The arrival of generative AI is not a minor disruption; it’s a constantly evolving challenge to how we assess student learning. This session is designed for instructors who are concerned about academic integrity. In the studio we will introduce the “Mitigate, Support, Elevate” framework for designing assessments resilient to AI misuse. Together we will explore this framework for assessing the (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Course Design Studio: Creating AI Resilient Assessments"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Facilitators

This ISW is online. Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying here. Application for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on March 10th at 9:00 am and closes on April 29th at 4:30 pm. For this ISW you must be registered as a Graduate Student in Winter Session Term 2 (January (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop - April 21, 25, 26, May 2, 2026 (Tues., Sat., Sun., Sat.)"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    April 25, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 3:30 pm
  • Online
    Date
    April 26, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 2, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Inclusive Teaching: Inclusive Assessment Strategies Teaching inclusively involves supporting the success of a diverse mix of learners, with different social identities, life experiences and ways of knowing. Students will have different abilities to demonstrate their learning. This requires educators to revise assessment practices that allow for this range of diversity; not one size fits all. In (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Inclusive Teaching Studio: Assessment Strategies"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 22, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:30 am

Facilitators

Teaching inclusively involves supporting the success of a diverse mix of learners, with different social identities, life experiences and ways of knowing. A key aspect of inclusive teaching is supporting student’s sense of belonging within a program of study and within a discipline. Your course syllabus is a representation of all of the thought and (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Inclusive Teaching Studio: Inclusive Syllabus"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 29, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Facilitators

The CSW is a three day, in-person, intensive professional development session designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in broadening and enhancing their instructional skills.


Upcoming Dates - "2026 CIRTL SoTL Workshop (May 4, 6, 8)"

  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 4, 2026
    Time
    8:15 am - 6:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 6, 2026
    Time
    8:15 am - 6:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 8, 2026
    Time
    8:15 am - 6:00 pm

Facilitators