CTLT Events Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
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Contract Faculty may feel isolated when they teach on campus. Many of us only come for the hours when we have teaching-related responsibilities and are not well connected to resources available on our students. At this information session, representatives from diverse areas will share support available to our students from the beginning, throughout, and at (more…)
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Join us face-to-face or virtually for one on one consultations with Learning Designers to explore ways to enhance your students’ online learning experience. Bring your courses, ideas and questions, and together we will explore how to incorporate new approaches into your teaching practice. We can give guidance to incorporate online instructional strategies that support: Motivating students (more…)
Series: Learning Technology Qualtrics
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Qualtrics Studio UBC adopted a new survey tool: Qualtrics. Qualtrics is a powerful tool that offers UBC Faculty, and staff with new functionality in survey creation, data-analysis, and reporting. Join us for the the bi-weekly qualtrics studio to explore qualtrics together and to receive support and guidance using this tool. The session is geared towards (more…)
Series: Open Education
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Beginning in September, CTLT and Faculty support units will be hosting a series of drop-in sessions to help applicants in the development of their Open Educational Resource (OER) Fund project proposals. Applicants can drop in to any of these sessions to talk about their project ideas and receive feedback and advice on topics such as (more…)
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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 resolving those (more…)
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***Click “Register Now” to sign up for the WAITLIST only (being on the waitlist doesn’t guarantee a spot). IF you are chosen to participate, you will be contacted directly by our office by email (between after signing up and by registration closing date)*** Registration for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on Monday October 7 at 9am PST (more…)
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Canvas Studio is a drop in space for anyone with questions related to UBC’s new learning management system Canvas. Here’s your chance to sit down with a Canvas expert and review your course design, explore migrating a Connect course to Canvas, and troubleshoot any challenges… ⚒ Hands-on Session Type
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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 on (more…)
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The Postdoctoral Fellows’ Teaching Internship (PDTI) is a teaching development program designed specifically for UBC postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic teaching as a part of their career. You will gain a foundational teaching skills in an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW Nov 17, 23, 24) and apply these in the practicum through guest lectures and mentored (more…)
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Join us face-to-face or virtually for one on one consultations with Learning Designers to explore ways to enhance your students’ online learning experience. Bring your courses, ideas and questions, and together we will explore how to incorporate new approaches into your teaching practice. We can give guidance to incorporate online instructional strategies that support: Motivating students (more…)
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What would support for Indigenous students look like in departments, faculty and by staff? What are some of the ways in which Indigenous students approach and experience their education processes differently from other student groups? This session invites you to approach these questions with the concept of “bandwidth,” which helps us consider underlying factors of (more…)
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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 resolving those (more…)
Series: Open Education
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Beginning in September, CTLT and Faculty support units will be hosting a series of drop-in sessions to help applicants in the development of their Open Educational Resource (OER) Fund project proposals. Applicants can drop in to any of these sessions to talk about their project ideas and receive feedback and advice on topics such as (more…)
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The Course Design Intensive (CDI) is an intensive program in which participants work, individually and collaboratively, to design or re-design a course they are (or will be) teaching. Throughout the workshop, participants will acquire a broadened understanding of course design concepts, and will gain skills and tools they can apply to their own course. The (more…)
Series: Learning Analytics
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Instructors strive to create effective learning spaces and opportunities where students engage with course content, participate in course activities, connect with their peers, and are invested in learning. Using course data to evaluate and improve learning is a key aspect of learning analytics and can be a useful evidence-based approach for helping instructors succeed in (more…)