The Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL) Within and Across UBC’s Diverse Disciplinary Contexts
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Universities around the world recognize the importance and complexity of providing high quality and high engagement student learning experiences in diverse, internationally-responsive and technology-enabled undergraduate and graduate degree programs. In research-intensive university (RIU) environments, for example, academic leaders at various institutional levels, are thus increasingly required to account for research-informed, strategically aligned, and evidence-based curriculum (more…)
Teaching in the Vantage One Science Program: Sharing Our Curricular and Pedagogical Insights from Teaching English Language Learners
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This session will showcase how we, as faculty members, have adapted and improved our instructional approaches as a result of teaching in the Vantage One science program. This first-year experience program offers international students the opportunity to begin their studies at UBC and at the same time, complete an intensive Academic English Program. As such, (more…)
Using the ‘Rapid Reflection on Learnings Process’ in Graduate Teaching
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In this session, we critically evaluate the use of what we call a ‘rapid reflection on learnings’ process in the context of our graduate teaching. The process involves use of an open-ended set of questions about key moments in learning that we ask students to complete, in writing, during the last 5 minutes of each (more…)
How Can We Use Flexible Learning Strategies to Increase Student Engagement and Learning?
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Flexible learning strategies (including flipped classrooms and blended learning environments) have great potential to engage learners and enrich their learning experience. However, it can be challenging to add these elements to a course so that they promote achievement of course learning outcomes without adding unduly to students’ workload. Over the past two years, the redesign (more…)
Effective Strategies for In-Class Review
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Managing the variation in students’ background understanding is one of the greatest challenges for successful university teaching. Many instructors devote significant class time to reviewing concepts from previous courses in the hopes of creating a level foundation for learning. Frustratingly, these review efforts often fail to meet their goals. In this workshop, participants will identify (more…)
Student-Faculty-Community Flexible Learning Partnerships
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Healthcare delivery is moving into communities away from hospitals. Our mission at the School of Nursing is to use flexible learning strategies to optimize this shift from acute care management to community/population health promotion and well-being. In this presentation, we will discuss our strategies for engaging students and our community practice partners in flexible learning (more…)
Empowering Pronunciation Teaching and Learning with the Use of Ultrasound Technology and Prosody Visualization
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Pronunciation is an integral part of communication because it reflects speakers’ communicative competence, and affects their self-confidence and social interaction. However, pronunciation has been considered a difficult area to attend to in the classroom due to limited class time and the lack of understanding and resources on speech production. Our session addresses these major challenges (more…)
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Fostering Inclusive Learning in Diverse Classrooms
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Students enter the classroom with diverse motivations, academic interests, and disciplinary expectations and experiences. One challenge is creating an inclusive environment that welcomes all perspectives while ensuring activities and assessment that fits the needs of the learner. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework that helps instructors plan learning to meet needs of (more…)
Supporting Case-Based Student Writing and Logical Reasoning: Three Different Scaffolding Approaches and their Outcomes
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Solving problems using data analysis and logical reasoning is one of the primary goals of a science-based education. One evidence-based tool used to support student learning of this goal is the case-study, where students build and rationalize hypotheses grounded in experimental data. This approach allows students to analyze data, and to practice making logical connections. (more…)
Sharing Your Practice and Academic Profile Development
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***Please note this event has been cancelled*** Scholarly communication has traditionally focused on the published article or book as the key output of academic engagement; however, with the growth of open education, the practice of sharing content that is developed in the context of teaching a course, is being leveraged out into the world using (more…)