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UBC narrows down list of vendors for new learning technology ecosystem
By emi1989 on December 2, 2016
Find out more about UBC’s project to help shape the university’s next generation learning technology ecosystem (LTE).
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UBC professors discuss importance of territory acknowledgements
By Wendy Chan on December 2, 2016
UBC professors discuss the meaning and importance of territory and land acknowledgements, their broader cultural meaning, and how to meaningfully incorporate them into the classroom.
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Open textbooks save UBC Math students $1,000,000
By emi1989 on November 9, 2016
UBC Math instructors have widely adopted open or freely accessible textbooks, saving students money and providing them with a more customized learning experience.
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Open Dialogues: How to engage with a new generation of learners
By emi1989 on November 7, 2016
Jon Festinger, an instructor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, explains how he has been using open education tools to engage students in a course about video game law.
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Developing original learning technology
By emi1989 on November 4, 2016
English professor Tiffany Potter wanted to bring learning technology into her classroom but struggled with how to make technology serve her discipline, rather than the other way around.
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Campus Climate and Sexual Violence on Campus
By emi1989 on October 7, 2016
How do we begin to address those contexts in how and what we teach? How do the events, policies, and institutional changes on our university campus affect our learners and the work we do in our classrooms?
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New faculty and staff welcomed to UBC
By Wendy Chan on September 29, 2016
This year’s orientation, hosted in late August by CTLT and UBC Human Resources, welcomed more than ninety new faculty and staff members from a range of units, departments, and faculties.
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Designing good learning environments
By emi1989 on September 29, 2016
Instructors talk about how to design good learning environments on campus.
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Learning Technology: Enhancing WordPress as a learning technology
By Letitia Englund on September 29, 2016
Philosophy professor Christina Hendricks created Studiorum, a set of plugins for WordPress, to improve the critiquing process for students in her Arts One.
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Curriculum Mapping in the Faculty of Arts
By emi1989 on August 31, 2016
Curriculum mapping is helping departments across UBC identify gaps or redundancies in their degree programs, and spot missed opportunities.
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Tagged with Course Design, Course Development, curriculum mapping