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Orange Shirt Day, 2021
As we approach Orange Shirt Day on September 30, now also the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we dedicate this special edition of Edubytes newsletter to commemorating the legacy of Residential Schools in Canada.
Keep Teaching Series: Finding the human side of virtual teaching and learning
Like many, before 2020 Christine Evans had never taught online. Just two months later, she was championing the possibilities of digital spaces. She shares what she thinks changed for the better.
Strategies for supporting temporarily remote students
The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) has developed resources to support faculty whose students are delayed in returning to campus. See our guide for ideas on how to plan, design and teach a mix of in-person and remote students.
Keep Teaching Series: Experiential lab-learning stories from a year of online teaching
In this story, three instructors from the Faculty of Science explain how they took the challenge of online teaching and turned it into an opportunity to experiment with learning.
Learning analytics in the COVID era
In the July 2021 edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Dr. Halimat Alabi, Dr. Leah Macfadyen and Craig Thompson explore learning analytics and new challenges it must face to continue to meaningfully support teaching, learning and learning design.
2021 Summer Institute
From August 23 – 26, 2021, the CTLT Summer Institute will focus on the fundamentals of teaching and learning for new instructors and teaching assistants.
Teaching assistants and online learning
In the June edition of Edubytes, Dr. Grace Truong, Jeff Bale, and Dr. Shaya Golparian look at the changes to the role of teaching assistants (TAs) that resulted from the rapid transition to emergency remote teaching and learning.
Keep Teaching Series: Sharing community values from a distance
The Haida Gwaii Institute team explains how they relied on their community values to provide experiential and transformative learning opportunities from a distance.
Celebrate Learning Week 2021
In this special edition of Edubytes newsletter, we share highlights from the recent Celebrate Learning Week — an annual showcase of teaching and learning at UBC.
Going beyond course design: how the CTLT helped IPCC instructors focus on the essential
The Infection Prevention and Control Certificate is a continuing education program designed to meet healthcare professionals’ needs in the field of infection control. The CTLT’s Jocelyn Micallef and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s Jong Wook Kim explain how their collaboration helped the program adapt to the ongoing health crisis.
