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HELP IS AVAILABLE: Student Engagement and the Transition to the Professional Workforce

HELP IS AVAILABLE: Student Engagement and the Transition to the Professional Workforce

By Michael Wong on November 13, 2007

Gone are the days where one stays with the same company for their whole life, so post-secondary institutions must start preparing students for a life of perpetual change. Post-secondary institutions need to engage students in enriching educational experiences while providing a supportive campus environment where resources can easily be found and where students can learn about making the transition into the professional workforce.

Posted in Faculty and Staff, Professional Development, Students
Tagged with Personal Learning Environments, Student Engagement

Help, I'm an Online Learner and Don't Know What to Do!

Help, I'm an Online Learner and Don't Know What to Do!

By Michael Wong on October 25, 2007

The four panelists walked through the Orientation to Learning Online website, which has been developed to give students and instructors a valuable resource to learning online. Discussion revolved around the benefits of collaboration and content-sharing in the context of UBC’s Orientation website, and ways in which faculty and students can make use of its content.

Posted in Distance and Blended Learning, Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Students
Tagged with TLT, WebCT Vista

Q&A – LCIN Listens, and Shares

Q&A – LCIN Listens, and Shares

By Ted Schellenberg on October 2, 2007

The LCIN stands for “Leading Campuses International Network”. The LCIN (“listen”) part is kind of meant to be fun…this is a group that has some good ideas to share and wants to hear more from other practitioners. When we thought about the name, we wanted to capture the qualities of the institutions represented in the program.

Posted in Faculty and Staff, Professional Development
Tagged with WebCT Vista

You Have a Right to Know!

You Have a Right to Know!

By Michael Wong on September 24, 2007

A recent trend that has developed over the last few years has been an increase in people’s expectations towards getting access to information. With so much information available on the Internet, people are developing an attitude that they have a “right to know.” John Willinsky and Brian Lamb discussed opportunities and initiatives resulting from the emergence of open source, open access, and open educational resources that are readily available today.

Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Students
Tagged with Open Education Resources, Social Media, TLT

Tag This! How UBC Researchers are Merging Blogs, Bookmarking, and More for Learning and Community Building

Tag This! How UBC Researchers are Merging Blogs, Bookmarking, and More for Learning and Community Building

By Krista Charbonneau on October 30, 2006

Blogs, tagging, online identities, social bookmarking – these social software practices are hot technology trends with millions of people flocking to web sites like myspace.com, flickr.com and del.icio.us. Now UBC researchers David Vogt and Lee Iverson are looking at ways to bring these types of software together under one umbrella.

Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development
Tagged with Social Media

Powered by Students: How a Student-Led Pilot Project Re-Creates Ancient Worlds with Modern Technology

Powered by Students: How a Student-Led Pilot Project Re-Creates Ancient Worlds with Modern Technology

By Krista Charbonneau on August 2, 2005

UBC students led a pilot project that used virtual models of Ancient Greek architecture to show what life might have been like in Athens in fifth century B.C. They re-created their own 3-D models of buildings in the Acropolis and the Agora based on their own research, using the same kind of technology used to create popular 3-D video games.

Posted in Learning Tools, Students
Tagged with Personal Learning Environments, Social Media, Student Engagement

The Blogging Curve: Possibilities for Integrating Weblogs in the Classroom

The Blogging Curve: Possibilities for Integrating Weblogs in the Classroom

By Krista Charbonneau on June 21, 2005

Blogs can be used in a range of ways, from a tool to manage course information, demonstrating professional tools and increasing student ownership in the classroom, to meeting learning objectives, Simon Neame, an adjunct instructor with UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) has discovered.

Posted in Distance and Blended Learning, Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools
Tagged with Blog, Personal Learning Environments

How Can Smaller Faculties Use Video-Conferencing to Increase Teaching and Learning Opportunities for Students and Faculty?

How Can Smaller Faculties Use Video-Conferencing to Increase Teaching and Learning Opportunities for Students and Faculty?

By Krista Charbonneau on March 14, 2005

Sandra Schinnerl, Associate Director at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and her team faced 2 key challenges when they decided to use video-conferencing as a means of increasing course offerings and learning opportunities for graduate students. Find out about their approach, advice, and tips and resources on video-conferencing.

Posted in Distance and Blended Learning, Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development
Tagged with Open Education Resources, Video Conferencing

Jim Berger – What's the Secret to Start Teaching Online?

Jim Berger – What's the Secret to Start Teaching Online?

By Krista Charbonneau on February 18, 2005

Jim Berger redesigned Biology 200 to use a combination of in-person class time and an online component. The in-person time divided into two parts: Jim lectures fifty per cent of the time and the other half is workshop time, where students work together in groups on problem solving.

Posted in Distance and Blended Learning, Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools
Tagged with Accessibility, Open Education Resources, WebCT Vista

Adam Frank and Lisa Quinn – How Can Mixed-Mode Improve In-Class Discussions and Focus the Course?

Adam Frank and Lisa Quinn – How Can Mixed-Mode Improve In-Class Discussions and Focus the Course?

By Krista Charbonneau on December 14, 2004

Adam Frank’s Critical Approaches to Media course introduces students to a variety of intelligent, critical writing about media: print, television, film, radio, comics, and digital media. Adam and Lisa say that making the change to mixed-mode teaching has strengthened the focus and cohesiveness of the entire course.

Posted in Distance and Blended Learning, Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools
Tagged with WebCT Vista

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