Supporting and Funding your SoTL Research: A Conversation to Learn about Opportunities within and outside UBC
Series: Community of Practice (CoP)
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In this workshop of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Community of Practice (SoTL CoP) series a panel of research administrators will provide an introduction to support and funding opportunities both UBC specific and federal. Join this session to learn from Adriana Briseno-Garzon, Manager of Learning Evaluation and Research, CTLT, Danica Kell, SSH Research Development (more…)
Indian Horse Screening
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Join the First Nations House of Learning for this special screening of the feature film Indian Horse, an adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel. The film is an important drama that sheds light on the dark history of Canada’s Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous peoples. About the Story: In late 1950s Ontario, (more…)
Innovations in Learning Design: Choose Your Own Learning
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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The Faculty of Education at UBC has had a presence in online learning for almost two decades. Our mission is to advance the role of education in the well-being of people and communities. We are committed to the development of innovative learning designs, and in the field of online learning there always new discoveries to (more…)
Emerging Media Lab Immersive Learning Orientation
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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This drop in session will present the vision of UBC’s Emerging Media Lab (EML – http://eml.ubc.ca/ ) as a space dedicated to exploring how emerging technologies are evolving the way we learn. Currently the EML serves two roles in the UBC community: 1) to enhance teaching and learning with immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (more…)
Learning with Lynda.com
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Meet your learning goals by accessing Lynda.com’s flexible and diverse resources from anywhere and at any time! UBC staff and faculty have free and unlimited access to Lynda.com, which offers thousands of video tutorials on business, creative, and technology skills. With so many tutorials available, UBC Human Resources has spotlighted a few of the options (more…)
Enhance Learning through Coaching: an interactive session to explore how you can leverage Coaching@UBC to further your learning – May 2
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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There are a wide range of ways to learn at UBC. Some of these ways include conferences, workshops, virtual learning, apprenticeship and coaching. Join Coaching@UBC for an informative and interactive event to explore how coaching can support UBC staff and faculty to increase learning effectiveness to achieve goals and desired change. This session is designed (more…)
Enhance Learning through Coaching: an interactive session to explore how you can leverage Coaching@UBC to further your learning – May 3
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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There are a wide range of ways to learn at UBC. Some of these ways include conferences, workshops, virtual learning, apprenticeship and coaching. Join Coaching@UBC for an informative and interactive event to explore how coaching can support UBC staff and faculty to increase learning effectiveness to achieve goals and desired change. This session is designed (more…)
Seeds & STEM
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Drop by the Neville Scarfe Foyer (just outside the Education Library) to ask a question, participate in some discussion and get your hands dirty with some “Seedy” fun. Plant a seed, make a thematic button, take a pic at our Green Screen Photo Booth, learn about the UBC Seed Lending Library and some of the (more…)
Using Student Peer Assessment in Group Work to Enhance Learning and Engagement
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Giving and receiving feedback is a skill valued by employers (Jacques, 2000) and improves learning (Falchikov, 2001; Hamer, Purchase, Luxton-Reilly & Denny, 2014). In this session I will describe a variety of ways I have used student peer assessment in group projects. Student peer assessment can be done individually or in groups, used formatively or (more…)
TLEF Evaluation Workshop
Series: CTLT Institute TLEF
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Evaluating a teaching and learning enhancement project is a challenging endeavour. What are appropriate goals for evaluation, and what approaches can achieve these? What claims can be made regarding the success of the project, and what evidence can back these up? In this hands-on workshop you will develop a practical and detailed (more…)