Teaching & Learning Professional Development

Senior Management

Gillian Gerhard

Gillian Gerhard

Gillian Gerhard, PhD
Senior Manager, Teaching & Learning
gillian.gerhard@ubc.ca
604–822–9696

Zoe Morris

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Zoe Morris
Associate Director, Teaching & Learning Professional Development
zoe.morris@ubc.ca
604-822-9287

 

Team (listed alphabetically)


Kabir Bhalla

Kabir Bhalla

Kabir Bhalla
CATL Instructor
kabir.bhalla@msl.ubc.ca

Kabir works as one of the instructors for the Certificate Program in Advanced Teaching and Learning at CTLT. He is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator, responsible for conducting Graduate ISWs and department-specific TA training sessions at UBC as part of his role on the Graduate Student Facilitator Team. Concurrently, he is pursuing his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at UBC, with a research focus on immune responses to human fungal infections.

 


Ainsley Camps

Ainsley Camps

Ainsley Camps
Educational Developer: Teaching & Learning Professional Development
ainsley.camps@ubc.ca
604–822–2920

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 Chan

Judy Chan

Judy Chan, PhD
Faculty Associate, Faculty Liaison (Land and Food Systems)
judy.chan@ubc.ca
604–822–5811

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 MindQualitative 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 Engle

Will Engle

Will Engle
Strategist, Open Education Initiatives
will.engle@ubc.ca
604–822–5913

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 Golparian

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Shaya Golparian, PhD
Educational Developer: TA Development Programs
shaya.golparian@ubc.ca
604–822–0831

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.

 


Sue Hampton

Sue Hampton

Sue Hampton, EdD
Educational Consultant: Facilitation and Process Design
susan.hampton@ubc.ca
604–822–9397

Sue provides design and facilitation services to the UBC teaching and learning community. Sue is involved in program design and facilitation across various TLPD programs and she leads the Course Design Intensive for Faculty. She is engaged in supporting TLPD’s integration of equity, diversity, and anti-oppressive pedagogy across our programming, and is involved in developing related professional development opportunities in areas such as inclusive teaching and anti-racist teaching and learning. Sue holds a Doctor of Education (EdD) in Educational Leadership from Simon Fraser University.

 


Isabeau Iqbal

Isabeau Iqbal

Isabeau Iqbal, PhD
Senior Educational Consultant: Educational Leadership
isabeau.iqbal@ubc.ca
604–827–0648

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 Namba

Rie Namba

Rie Namba
Educational Resources Developer: Open Resources
rie.namba@ubc.ca
604–827–2768

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 Renoe

Emily Renoe

Emily Renoe
Senior Educational Consultant: Learning Technologies
emily.renoe@ubc.ca
604–822–0836

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 Topornycky

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Joseph Topornycky, PhD
Manager, Graduate Student Programs
joseph.topornycky@ubc.ca
604–822–0262

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 Vent-Schmidt

Jens Vent Schmidt - Photo by Gabriel Lascu

Jens Vent-Schmidt, PhD
Educational Consultant: Design and Facilitation
jens.vent-schmidt@ubc.ca

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.

 


Natalie Westwood

Natalie Westwood

Natalie Westwood
CIRTL Program Developer, Graduate Student Program
natalie.westwood@ubc.ca
604–827–0924

 


Lucas Wright

Lucas Wright

Lucas Wright
Senior Educational Consultant
lucas.wright@ubc.ca
604–827–5650

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.