When will we be ready? Sharing responsibility for Indigenous engagement in teaching and learning
Panelists shared their experiences and practices on topics related to Indigenous content including: mandatory curricula, the roles and responsibilities of instructors, the impact of sharing responsibility on student learning and more.
With access to five years of course data, students create new apps at the Learning Analytics Hackathon
Over 50 students, researchers, and instructors spent a weekend creating apps and dashboards to improve student learning and experiences.
Celebrate SoTL 2019
On October 24, the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) hosted the second annual Celebrate SoTL event. This full-day event gave Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) practitioners, new faculty and students across UBC the opportunity to engage in dialogue around teaching and […]
Teaching as Performance
Aaron Langille approaches teaching as performance, he shared his six strategies with UBC faculty: voice dynamic, eye contact, audience involvement, pop culture, humour, and improvisation.
What we’re reading: Jackie Stewart
Each edition, we ask one CTLT staffer to share their reading list and inspiring stories. This edition, we are pleased to present a look at the bookshelf of Jackie Stewart, deputy academic director. Is there a specific book that inspired you to transform your teaching practice? This summer I spent a lot of time thinking […]
Free textbooks, an open problem library and more open educational resources being developed at UBC
On October 1, UBC staff and faculty were invited to attend a panel discussion exploring experiences in implementing open educational resources (OER) projects at the University of British Columbia. Christina Hendricks, academic director at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, moderated the panel, in her introduction she defined OER as “any teaching and learning […]
Call for Applications for Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
Over the next four years, UBC is investing $250,000 in annual funding to support open educational resources (OER). Learn about the OER Fund.
2020 call for proposals for Small Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Innovation projects
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic invites faculty, staff and students to submit proposals for small TLEF innovation projects.
What we’re reading: Jeff Miller
“What we’re reading” is a regular feature in Dialogues, the CTLT’s bi-monthly newsletter. In each edition, one staff member at the CTLT will share what they are currently reading and offer some poignant suggestions for your reading list. Jeff Miller, Senior Associate Director, Projects and Faculty Partnerships at the CTLT, shares his reading list for […]
UBC and Amazon Web Services announce Canada’s first Cloud Innovation Centre
UBC and Amazon Web Services to launch Canada’s first university-based Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC). Students, staff and faculty will get to collaborate in a team-based, hands-on environment as they leverage the power of AWS cloud technology in their work.
