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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Peer Review of Teaching
Posted on Nov 28, 2019
In the November edition of Edubytes, our guest editor, Isabeau Iqbal, will be exploring the topic of peer review of teaching. Isabeau is a Senior Educational Consultant, Educational Leadership, at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT). She leads UBC’s formative peer review of teaching program for faculty members and is involved in various summative peer review of teaching initiatives.
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Open Education
Posted on Oct 24, 2019
In the October edition of Edubytes, our guest editors from the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Christina Hendricks, academic director; Lucas Wright, senior educational consultant; and Will Engle, strategist of open education initiatives, have curated the first part of this edition where they will be exploring open education.
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Peer Assessment
Posted on Sep 26, 2019
In the September edition of Edubytes, our guest editors from the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Bosung Kim, PhD; Isabeau Iqbal, PhD; and Jason Myers have curated the first part of this edition where they will be exploring peer assessment. Bosung is an educational consultant in learning design, Isabeau is a senior educational consultant in educational leadership, and Jason works as a faculty liaison with the Faculty of Arts.
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Students as Partners
Posted on Jul 25, 2019
In the July edition of Edubytes, our guest editor, Roselynn Verwoord, will be exploring students as partners. Roselynn is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC and a Fellow of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She works as a Curriculum Consultant at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and as an instructor in teacher and adult education. She has engaged in several students as partners projects and can often be found writing about the role that power can play in partnerships.
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Edubytes Archive
Please see below for previous editions of Edubytes.
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
