Teaching & Learning Professional Development

Ainsley is a point person for the CTLT’s Institutes; from planning and development to coordination and the curation of Institute recordings and resources. She also takes part in the facilitation of Journey into Course Design, and the moderation of CTLT Fireside Chats which feature faculty panelists sharing their teaching and learning experiences in different topic areas. Ainsley is an enthusiastic lifelong learner; at present her interests lie in trauma aware teaching and learner-centred inclusive teaching. Ainsley is grateful to be a guest on the ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people; one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Judy develops programs for faculty members, post doc fellows, and staff to support their teaching and learning needs. She has special interests in Using Problems and Cases in the Classroom, Teaching and Learning for the Heart and Mind, Qualitative Research, and more! She coordinates Faculty Instructional Skills Workshops and the CTLT Institute. Judy calls herself a milk protein chemist and explores various food science topics with her students in FNH 200.

Will is engaged with projects that leverage emerging technologies and pedagogies to support open learning. As a strategist for open education initiatives, he has worked on a range of initiatives that have included helping to support open pedagogy-based assignments that emphasize students as collaborators in the production of knowledge, the effective integration of open resources into individual courses, the development of UBC’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and learning analytics hackathons for undergraduate students. With a Master’s degree in library science, Will is interested in supporting the removal of barriers that limit access to education and knowledge.

Shaya develops and coordinates the TA Development Program at CTLT. This includes consulting with departments to plan, design, deliver and evaluate department-specific TA teaching skills development. Shaya designs and facilitates capacity-building workshops for department TA training programs, and coordinates the TA training community of Practice. She is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and a Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) trainer, and she is involved in the design and delivery of various teaching and learning professional development initiatives, programs and workshops at CTLT. Shaya has a PhD in Curriculum and Pedagogy from UBC.

At CTLT, Isabeau (she/her) leads the Formative Peer Review of Teaching program and co-leads the Teaching Development Program for New Faculty. In addition, Isabeau works with instructors who are developing their teaching portfolios and facilitates workshops on various topics. Isabeau holds a PhD in Education from UBC and is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.

Rie designs, develops, supports and maintains resources to facilitate the use of open practices in teaching and learning (specifically Wiki and WordPress). Rie provides consultation to students, faculty, and staff who are incorporating open practices in their work and develops, implements, and curates educational resources and materials (guides, handouts, tutorials, websites) that address teaching and learning-related professional development needs and improve upon sustainable practices for resource sharing. Rie also supports a variety of web resources development projects including the Learning Commons project, the Digital Tattoo project, and the Open UBC project. Rie is also part of the stewardship committee member of the ETUG (Educational Technology Users Group).

Emily consults, supports and trains faculty and staff with the integration of learning technologies into their face-to-face, online and blended learning environments. Emily is presently involved in a number of UBC initiatives such as Teaching Development Program for New Faculty, Learning Technology Rovers and much more. She is presently situated in the Learning Technology Hub. Emily has worked with learning technologies for over 19 years.

Joseph designs and develops CTLT’s overall programming and support for Graduate Students and Teaching Assistants at CTLT. Joseph works with his team to ensure that graduate student support is informed by current research on how people learn and well grounded teaching and learning theory in accord with the university’s strategic goals. He is also the lead developer and facilitator for the certificate in pedagogy for graduate students. He is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and a Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) trainer. Joseph has a PhD in Philosophy from UBC.

Jens supports the UBC teaching and learning community through consultation, design and facilitation. He is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and a Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) trainer and involved in several teaching development workshops at CTLT, including the Faculty ISW and the Teaching Development Program (TDP) for new faculty. Jens has developed and facilitated teaching development for graduate student and postdoctoral fellows and faculty through the CTLT and CIRTL since 2013 and he brings his experience as a faculty member teaching Biology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Lucas supports faculty and staff in integrating technology in their teaching and learning practice. He is an adult learning instructor with more than 15 years of experience teaching adults online, face-to-face and in blended contexts. He has a keen interest in blended learning, open education and the role of learning portfolios in teaching and learning. Lucas supports professional development programs at CTLT including the Instructional Skills workshop, Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment, the Learning Technology Hub and the edX Studio sessions.