Providing Effective Feedback on Writing Assignments
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This workshop introduces feedback strategies that focus on using educator time efficiently and that encourage students to both use feedback and take responsibility for the quality of their academic writing. The workshop benefits both new and experienced educators by providing participants the opportunity to reflect on their current feedback strategies and to practice some strategies (more…)
Bringing Down Walls Between Classrooms, Online and Field Studies: A UBC Soil Science Case Study
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This presentation will review how a team of multidisciplinary faculty and staff of the Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources (VSSLR) Consortium utilized media technologies to enhance teaching and learning for soil science students at UBC. Established in 2004, the goal of the VSSLR Consortium (http://soilweb.ca/) is to enhance soil science education through cooperative and innovative (more…)
Paired Teaching for Faculty Professional Development
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Paired (or co-)teaching is an arrangement in which two faculty are collaboratively responsible for all aspects of teaching a course. Through the Harris extension to CWSEI, paired teaching is being implemented in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and and Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences in order to leverage the expertise that has been created (more…)
UBC 2050: The Future of Higher Education – Panel Discussion
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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This event is a UBC Centennial Session and part of Celebrate Learning Week Higher education, both at UBC and more broadly, has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years. These changes have influenced everything from who pursues higher education to how faculty teach and how students learn. To celebrate one hundred years of teaching and (more…)
KEYNOTE – Brilliant: The Science of How to Get Smarter
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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UBC Centennial Session and part of Celebrate Learning Week In this talk, Annie Murphy Paul refutes the idea that intelligence is determined by genetic inheritance or an individual’s upbringing by revealing the impact of the microenvironment, the context in which we use our minds at any given moment. Over the past two decades, evidence has been (more…)
2016 TLEF Showcase
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Each year, a portion of UBC-V student tuition is set aside to form the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF). The TLEF is a unique opportunity for faculty and students to apply for funding to carry out projects seeking to improve the student learning experience at UBC-V. Come to this event to see poster presentations (more…)
TA Training/Grad Student Support Poster Session
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Are you aware of the training and support available to graduate students interested in teaching at UBC? Come to this poster session to see the different approaches that are being taken in departments and through central UBC services to support your development as a teaching assistant, future faculty member, and beyond. The poster session will (more…)
Panel Discussion: The Impact of Teaching on Life and Career
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How does teaching impact the life and career opportunities of graduate students? What are the possibilities ahead for graduate students interested in teaching? What can graduate students interested in teaching and learning do ‘now’ to advance their careers? Join us for a fascinating discussion with our panelists to explore these questions and others about teaching, (more…)
Tech Rovers Explore Teaching Tools
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Learning Technology Rovers (LTR’s) are co-op students who provide support related to learning technologies for instructors within the UBC faculties. Join the LTRs for this open house to discover how we support different learning technologies in faculties across UBC and how you can use these tools in your practice. In this session we will share a short (more…)
Facilitation Workshop Series for Academic Leadership
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**Please note this workshop series takes place over three morning sessions (930am-1230pm) on the following dates: Monday, May 9th, Tuesday, May 10th, and Thursday May 12th** Educational initiatives, collaborations, and practices occur within various organizational systems, cultures, interpersonal dynamics, and worldviews. Facilitation is a method of addressing explicit as well as implicit, and often unnamed, (more…)