Academic Leadership Development Program: Teamwork, Passion and Dedication
The Academic Leadership Development Program was created to build leadership capacity at UBC, enhance the effectiveness and personal satisfaction of heads, directors and associate deans, and help articulate their roles and responsibilities.
Top Tech Trends for 2010: Open Content and Mobile Computing
Open content and mobile computing are two technological trends which are about to have a very big influence in higher education.
Taking Distance Education Courses While Working in Ontario and Vacationing in Australia
Currently living in Ontario, Catherine Salinas has taken three Earth and Ocean Sciences distance education courses over the last two years, and plans to take a few more in the upcoming Winter term.
How One Health Care Professional Advanced in the Field with Distance Education
Jacquie Sarna, a Public Health professional, is an Access Studies student at UBC and is currently completing the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Certificate program.
Disproving the Myths: A UBC Employee Finds Success with Distance Education
Jennifer Nielsen is a full time UBC employee and has “found the option of taking distance education classes to be essential to finishing and upgrading [her] Bachelor of Arts degree.”
2010 CSDP Cohort
Andre Ivanov, Professor and Head, Applied Science Email: ivanov@ece.ubc.ca Website: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/%7Eivanov/ Area of Research: Assessing overall program quality and effectiveness in our electrical engineering curriculum and subsequent ability to develop and implement continuous improvement methodologies. Andrew Riseman, Associate Professor, Plant Breeding and Agroecology Email: ariseman@interchange.ubc.ca Website: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/faculty-members/member/Andrew%20Riseman%20M Tegan Adams, Research Assistant Email: tegan@interchange.ubc.ca Area of […]
Invited Scholars Seminars – Peter Wolf – 2008
2008 Peter Wolf is the Associate Director of Teaching Support Services at the University of Guelph, where he is well- known for his work in facilitating curriculum development. He was formally recognized for this work with the 2008 President’s Award for Innovative Leadership. In 2007, he co-edited the New Directions for Teaching and Learning publication, […]
Invited Scholars Seminars – Rachel Spronken-Smith – 2008
2008 Rachel initially trained as a geographer, graduating from the University of Otago with a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1987. She then worked as an agricultural meteorologist with the New Zealand Meteorological Service. After a couple of years Rachel moved to the University of British Columbia where she did a Ph.D. in Geography. Her research interest […]
Invited Scholars Seminars – Susan Shaw – 2010
2010 The Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISOTL) is excited to announce the visit of Susan Shaw Professor and Director of Women Studies and the Difference, Power, and Discrimination (DPD) Program at Oregon State University, as an Invited Scholar to share her work on diversity education with the UBC teaching and learning […]
Invited Scholars Seminars – Connie Schroeder – 2005
2005 Going Meta with SoTL: Research-Based Frameworks as the Missing Link between SoTL and Institutional Initiatives. SoTL findings that unpack student learning risk being dismissed as separate bits of inquiry. The scope of their value is often seen as limited to the improvement of a specific course only. Hutchings and Shulman (1999) propose, “A scholarship […]
