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.
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.
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.
Keep Teaching story series
The Keep Teaching story series aims to share and pay tribute to the work and experiences of UBC faculty from March 2020 to now, and celebrate where this has led to innovative new ways of learning, teaching and working. Explore these stories.
Formative peer review of online teaching
Access resources and learn more about how a formative peer review can help you enhance your teaching and student learning.
Building a community in business analytics
Sauder School of Business Professor Harish Krishnan explains how his TLEF project aims to build a business analytics community around open, interactive content.
