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Celebrate Learning Week – Keynote Speaker Bryan Dewsbury
Join Keynote Speaker Bryan Dewsbury on May 6 for “What World Do We Prepare? Education Beyond Content”. Traditional models of education privilege technical growth over the cultivation of the mind and habits that make for a peaceful loving society. Register now.
Celebrate Learning Week
From May 6 to May 10 2024, Celebrate Learning Week will explore how to retain our focus on the human aspects of education, while absorbing and exploring this new technological landscape. Register now.
Creating experiential learning resources in Finance through TLEF emulation
UBC Sauder School of Business instructors share how the TLEF helped them build upon each other’s project to create experiential learning resources for their students.
From Open Education to Epistemic and Social Justice
In the March edition of Edubytes, our guest editor is Associate Professor of Teaching from the UBC Faculty of Education Dr. Surita Jhangiani. She takes a critical approach on open pedagogy and shares new and existing resources engaged in this process.
Collaborative learning
In the January edition of Edubytes, our guest editors are Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology (ISIT) Collaborative Learning TLEF project team members (Michael Jerowsky, Jason Myers, Angela Lam, Ricardo Serrano, Meena Kahlon and Sami Haque) with faculty contributions from Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee, Dr. Brianne Orr-Álvarez and Dr. Katherine Lyon.
New program: Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom (AA-RPC)
Are you looking for ways to apply anti-racist pedagogies into your teaching? Are you motivated to build relationships with faculty members across departments to create meaningful change in UBC’s learning environments?
2024 Teaching Assistant (TA) Institute
Join us in-person and online from January 15 – 19, 2024 for a collection of workshops designed to support TAs as their roles change in the new year.
Implementing computational tools for learning
In our November edition of Edubytes, our guest editor Francis Jones, shares the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences’s project to implement open source computational tools and teaching tactics to facilitate hands-on interdisciplinary learning in data-driven scientific exploration.
Call for nominations for OER Excellence and Impact Awards
The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work done by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Nominations are due by November 30.
Kabir Bhalla
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 […]
