TLEF Evaluation
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 evaluation (more…)
What is on the Horizon at UBC? Creating a UBC Specific Horizon Report
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning The Horizon Report is an annual report that has served to identify key technologies, practices and trends likely to influence higher education with horizons of under one year, two to three years and five years out. Until recently The Horizon Report – Higher Education has been published annually by Educause and the New (more…)
Human Library: Enhancing Students Learning and Experiences
Series: CTLT Institute
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** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** Pillar: Transformative Learning Borrow a human and discover fabulous resources at UBC! The Human Library invites you to borrow a Living Book from a curated collection of services at UBC. It’s a candid 20-minute one-on-one conversation that will open your eyes to how you may leverage these resources to (more…)
Dissemination of Undergraduate Research: A Best Practices Roundtable Symposium Hosted by Writing Across the Curriculum
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Growing interest and demand for authentic undergraduate research experiences has created a need for opportunities that facilitate the development of communications skills. To quote Sir Mark Walport, the UK’s Chief Scientist (2013 – 2017), “Science isn’t finished until it’s communicated. The communication to wider audiences is part of the job of being a (more…)
Designing for Gamification: First Steps in Transforming an Existing Course
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Gamification has emerged as an attractive approach to enhancing students’ engagement with course content and facilitating learning in various disciplines. In this interactive workshop, we will use a design-based approach to help you familiarize yourself with the concept of gamification, identify ways to integrate it in your courses, and outline a plan for (more…)
Concretizing the Abstract: “Poetic Challenges” As Practical Application in the Blended Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning Please note: Experience teaching in a blended learning environment is not required. Poetic Challenges are appropriate for all levels and learning modes. UBC Creative Writing’s Minor program offers a selection of large lecture courses across a broad range of genres at the 200 –level, with student enrollment varying between 100 – 400 students. (more…)
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 a (more…)
Exploring the Wellbeing Landscape in Teaching & Learning at UBC: Ideas to Action
Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: People and Places, Transformative Learning UBC’s Strategic Plan highlights wellbeing as an area of significance, with a goal to “Lead globally and locally in sustainability and wellbeing across our campuses and communities” (2018, p. 13). The Plan also highlights “renewal and innovation of learning environments” as a key pathway to advancing wellbeing (p. 42), (more…)
OnTask: A Learning Analytics Tool to Provide Personalized Feedback to Every Student
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. With increasing class size and student diversity in many higher education institutions, personalized feedback to students can be difficult to provide due to limited time and resources available to instructors. Based on nudge theory, where (more…)
Teaching and Learning with Technology Panel
Series: CTLT Institute Open Education
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Pillar: People and Places, Transformative Learning This panel session provides a unique opportunity for faculty to become acquainted with the latest learning technology innovations available to the UBC community. Join our four panelists on how they integrate aspects of UBC’s learning technology ecosystem into their teaching practice and the impact these technologies have on their (more…)