UBC 8th Learning Analytics Hackathon – Untapping Canvas potential
This one-day event gave 100 UBC students a chance to showcase their learning analytics project and data skills, and to optimize the teaching and learning experience on Canvas.
Redesigning the Bachelor of Media Studies experience
Dr. Richard Arias-Hernandez and Christine D’Onofrio share how their team transformed the upcoming Bachelor of Media Studies’ curriculum to create a more unified learning experience for students.
Learning a foreign language with a little help from the local community
In this story, learn how the Department of Asian Studies leveraged the local community to create a positive and interactive learning environment of Chinese language and culture that brings students, instructors and communities together.
Indigenous Initiatives Design Series: Decolonizing Teaching and Learning in STEM
As Indigenous perspectives are being more integrated into curricula, STEM has often been thought to be a challenging area to approach for change. In this story, three instructors share how, through their experiences with the Indigenous Initiatives Design Series workshops, they implemented durable change in their courses.
Hybrid learning at UBC’s School of Creative Writing
Two instructors explain how they worked with a Large TLEF grant to redefine the learning experience for students and positively impacted instructor cohesion in the department.
H5P: supporting knowledge assessment through interactivity
Dr. Simon Lolliot and Dr. Kayli Johnson explain what H5P does and how it benefits student learning through formative assessments.
3M National Teaching Fellowship nominations open for 2023
The 3M National Teaching Fellowship is Canada’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and teaching at the post-secondary level. The award recognizes and rewards a faculty member who, in addition to being known for extraordinary teaching, is active in promoting exemplary teaching in others. The Call for Nominations for 2023 is now open. […]
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.
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.
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.
