Canvas Studio – Grading and Canvas: Wrapping Up Your Summer Course! August 20, 2018
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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
Canvas Studio – August 13, 2018
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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
Teaching as a Scholarly Activity: Getting Started with Research in the Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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In this panel discussion we will hear from four faculty members across UBC on their successful (and less successful) experiences in conducting research on their own teaching: • Dr. Su-Jan Yeo, School of Community and Regional Planning • Dr. Siobhan Mcphee, Department of Geography • Dr. Phaedra Burke, Sauder School of Business • Dr. Joss (more…)
Thunder in Our Voices: An interactive inquiry-based educational program
Series: CTLT Institute
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In the 1970s, a consortium of oil companies proposed the largest pipeline project in North America. Elders and youth from thirty Dene and Inuvialuit villages stopped the project. How did they do it? In the words of Dëneze Nakehk’o, Dene from Liidlii Kue First Nation, “With the thunder in our voices.” Thunder in Our Voices (more…)
Implementing The Peer Assessment Training Workshop on CANVAS
Series: CTLT Institute
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Writing helps students learn (Gingerich et al., 2014; Nevid, Ambrose, & Pyun, 2017; Nevid, Pastva, & McClelland, 2012), and assessing the written work of peers helps with developing skills such as critical analysis, reflection, and attention to criteria (Dochy, Segers, & Sluijsmans, 1999; Nicol, Thomson, & Breslin, 2014). Research has shown peer assessment to be (more…)
Building Inclusive Learning Environments in STEM
Series: CTLT Institute
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This workshop focuses on how to make science more inclusive by incorporating historical and social context of scientific knowledge into course curriculum. We will present case studies from different STEM disciplines that illustrate how to provide historical context for course content and information. We will focus on highlighting contributors to discoveries who are often excluded (more…)
Emerging Media Lab Orientation
Series: CTLT Institute
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We highly encourage you to visit the Emerging Media Lab Drop-In sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12-1:30pm to explore the different technologies on offer – virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos – before attending this session. This orientation introduces the available tools and resources at the Emerging Media Lab, including an overview of (more…)
II-Design Lab Series: Motivation and Context
Series: CTLT Institute Indigenous Initiatives
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**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** Please note: This workshop is Part 1 in a 3-part series. To register, participants are asked to commit for the entire series. If you cannot register for this August offering of Part 1, there is another opportunity to take Part 1 on September 25 (9:30AM-12:30PM) and and join the (more…)
Experiential Learning and University Teaching: Exploring Emotion and Supporting Experiential Pedagogies across Disciplinary Contexts
Series: CTLT Institute
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Amid the release of a new UBC Strategic Plan and increased calls to integrate Experiential Learning (EL) into higher education, there is a growing need to unpack what it means for learning to be “experiential.” In this session Kari Grain will facilitate an exploration of EL as a pedagogical concept that has underlying theoretical currents, (more…)
Teaching and Learning Technologies Orientation & Training
Series: CTLT Institute
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While technology can provide an powerful ‘lever’ that allows you to implement a wide array of pedagogically-sound learning activities and can help you accomplish many of the things you’ve always wanted to do in the classroom but haven’t been able to implement – using technology purely as a gadget because the technology is available does (more…)