How to Teach with Case Studies
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Well-designed case studies usually generate animated class discussions; not to mention that they hold great potential in supporting student learning, from enhancing basic knowledge comprehension to developing higher-level problem-solving, decision making, and/or evaluative skills. However, teaching with case studies isn’t a simple feat — we need to know all the issues involved (more…)
Why I Avoid my Student Evaluations of Teaching
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning As faculty members, we are told we need to read and respond to our student evaluations of teaching (SEoT). We work hard to provide good learning experiences for our students but the comments can be harsh and confusing and send us into a spiral of negativity and self-doubt. So, how should we (more…)
Creating Transformative Learning Experiences Through Community Engaged Learning
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: People and Places, Transformative Learning, Community and Global Engagement UBC’s reading week suite of programs is a unique opportunity for staff and students to collaborate with and to run projects that benefit community partners – and to experience the benefits of community-based experiential learning. Through these programs, staff and graduate students (through participation in (more…)
Exploring the “Power of a Name”: An Interactive Workshop
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: People & Places During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore a new learning resource developed through Indigenous Initiatives, The Power of a Name. This learning resource includes a film series and website that examine the complex history of building names at UBC’s Totem Park Residence, and features stories of relationships between (more…)
Activating Supported Educational Leadership, Research and Collaboration; or, what are these things, how does UBC do them, and where are the experts I need?
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning In the CTLT Faculty Associates program, each of us works on pedagogy or curriculum project of high interest to our home department; we meet regularly to share successes, problems, strategies and outcomes and to create webs of connection among diverse UBC communities to strengthen student experience and faculty expertise. The Faculty Associates (more…)
Using Student Peer Assessment to Reinforce Community and the Role of Audience
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning In this session on student peer assessment (SPA), we’ll look at the first iteration of a course that included a series of group assignments incorporating SPA, including instructional support, assignment specifications and rubrics shared with students. Stepping back from this specific example, I’ll share not only my rationale for including SPA in (more…)
“What Happened Here?” Surfacing Career Learning in Coursework
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning The pursuit of a degree is a meaningful experience for students, ripe with moments to learn about who they are, what matters to them, and how they want to contribute to the world. The Centre for Student Involvement and Careers has been collaborating with faculty members who are interested in drawing connections (more…)
Using Learning Analytics to Provide Timely, Personalized, and Actionable Feedback to Learners
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Giving timely, relevant feedback to students is a critical aspect of good teaching and supporting student success. This hands-on session will explore OnTask, which is an analytics tool being piloted as part of the UBC Learning Analytics project. OnTask enables instructors to give targeted, customized messages based on the metrics that they (more…)
Research Presentations
Series: CTLT Institute
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Student learning through the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) The purpose of our session is to share preliminary findings from our SoTL funding project about the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) in Sauder. PASS is part of the supplemental instruction model, designed to help students understand key concepts and practice the skills necessary for success (more…)
Open for Teaching, Open for Learning
Series: CTLT Institute
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***THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED*** Pillar: Transformative Learning Open education has become an important topic across higher education. This year at UBC, the Alma Mater Society led an updated #textbookbroke campaign advocating for: the use of open textbooks and open practices in the classroom to reduce costs for students, the continued adoption of open textbooks and resources (more…)