CTLT’s Cindy Underhill wins BCcampus Award for Excellence in OpenED
Underhill, a learning design strategist, has championed students’ voices through her innovative, collaborative and creative approach to learning design leading to projects like the Digital Tattoo and the Learning Commons.
First-Year Educators’ Symposium
For faculty and staff who are passionate about and interested in teaching and student engagement in relation to the first-year experience (FYE) at UBC.
Call for proposals for small Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) innovation projects is open
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic invites faculty, staff and students to submit proposals for small TLEF innovation projects.
New Faculty Orientation Guide
The 2018/19 New Faculty Orientation Guide provides a helpful collection of materials most commonly of interest to new faculty in their first year of teaching at UBC.
CTLT’s Ido Roll honoured with the President’s Staff Award in Leadership
Ido Roll, the Senior Manager, Research and Evaluation for UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, has been awarded with the President’s Staff Award in Leadership.
Checkpoints help PharmD students self-assess learning
Weekly quizzes are helping students in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences test their understanding of course material.
CIRTL Summer Institute
Join us for a five-day teaching intensive that combines an emphasis on learning evidence and theory-based approaches to teaching and learning with the opportunity to apply those theories in practice.
Announcement: The Appointment of Dr. Simon Bates, Associate-Provost, Teaching and Learning
On May 28, 2018, Professor Andrew Szeri, Provost and Vice-President Academic announced the appointment of Dr. Simon Bates to the role of Associate-Provost, Teaching and Learning.
Online peer assessment workshop teaches students critical evaluation and feedback skills
When Dr. Peter Graf was an undergraduate student, the only time he was exposed to the work of his peers was when he went to pick up his graded essay in a box outside his professor’s door. Curious, he picked up a stack papers and sat down to read through them. “I really wanted to […]
Open Dialogues: Using wiki pages to advance student-created knowledge
Students in the Faculty of Forestry are no strangers to producing engaging content surrounding natural resources management — the medium is changing though.
