The Edubytes newsletter focuses on emerging trends and innovations in teaching and learning in higher education. Each edition covers a different topic and provides insights from research to best practices and more. Browse through our publications and archives below.
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Changes in the learning technology landscape
Posted on Apr 29, 2021
In our April edition of Edubytes, we follow on from our March editorial on the year of teaching and learning at UBC, by reflecting on the changes to the learning technology environment following that emergency transition.
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A year of online learning
Posted on Mar 25, 2021
In the March edition of Edubytes, our guest editor Dr. Simon Bates looks back on the year since the university made an emergency transition to fully online classes in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Language in the academy
Posted on Feb 25, 2021
In the February edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Jennifer Walsh Marr and Dr. Jodie Martin explore academic literacy and language.
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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Posted on Jan 28, 2021
In the January edition of Edubytes, our guest editor Dr. Jaclyn (Jackie) Stewart provides an introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), equity, diversity, and inclusion in SoTL work, and how SoTL is well-positioned to understand the impacts of the pandemic on teaching and learning.
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Edubytes Archive
Please see below for previous editions of Edubytes.
January 2025 – Enhanced teaching resources for climate and sustainability learning
February 2025 – How are UBC students using Generative AI?
March 2025 – Teaching and learning trends to look for in 2025
April 2025 – Defining and Recognizing Excellence in OER
May 2025 – Looking back at Celebrate Learning Week
June 2025 – GenAI Implementation for Canadian Higher Education
July 2025 – The Transformational Impact of Co-operative Education
January 2024 – Collaborative Learning
February 2024 – Community Engaged Learning
March 2024 – From Open Education to Epistemic and Social Justice
April 2024 – Intersecting biases of language and race
May 2024 – Celebrate Learning Week 2024
June 2024 – Practical learning in the classroom
July 2024 – Student Affordability Taskforce
August 2024 – Empowering Educators
September 2024 – Fostering Inclusivity and Accessibility at UBC
January 2023 – The Inclusive Syllabus
February 2023 – Teaching and Learning Funding Opportunities
March 2023 – Assessment Design in an Era of Generative AI
April 2023 – Building UBC’s Academic Integrity Hub
May 2023 – Celebrate Learning Week 2023
June 2023 – Open Scholarship Opportunities
July 2023 – Emerging Media Lab
August 2023 – Universal Design for Learning
October 2023 – GenAI is disrupting Teaching and Learning
November 2023 – Implementing computational tools for learning
January 2022 – “Beyond COVID”: the future of teaching and learning
February 2022 – Academic Integrity
March 2022 – Ungrading: a radical old idea, picking up steam
April 2022 – Student Learning Technology Rovers
June 2022 – Micro-credentials: an update
July 2022 – Computational Tools
August 2022 – Climate emergency: evolving teaching and research to advance climate action at UBC
September 2022 – Orange Shirt Day 2022
October 2022 – Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence: Recommendations for Teaching and Learning
January 2021 – The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
February 2021 – Language in the Academy
March 2021 – A Year of Online Learning
April 2021 – Changes in the Learning Technology Landscape
Celebrate Learning Week Edition
June 2021 – Teaching assistants and online learning
July 2021 – Learning analytics in the COVID era
August 2021 – Support for new faculty
September 2021 – Digital and micro-credentials
October 2021 – Open educational resources in STEM
January 2020 – Technology Distractions in the Classroom
February 2020 – First-Year Experience
March 2020 – Effective Online Teaching Practices
April 2020 – Planning for Online Courses and Managing Health and Wellbeing
May 2020 – The Student Experience
June 2020 – A Thoughtful Online Transition
July 2020 – Guiding principles for teaching in the fall
August 2020 – (Re)Orientations: Small strategies to support new learners (including ourselves)
September 2020 – Anti-racism in academia
November 2020 – The UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan
December 2020 – 2020 in review (or, the 12 days of Edubytes)
January 2019 – The Most-Read Articles of 2018
February 2019 – Learning Analytics
March 2019 – Experiential Learning
April 2019 – Inclusive Teaching
May 2019 – Teaching Assistantship as Teaching Preparation
July 2019 – Students as Partners
August 2019 – Summer Reading List
September 2019 – Peer Assessment
