2024 Teaching Assistant (TA) Institute
Join us in-person and online from January 15 – 19, 2024 for a collection of workshops designed to support TAs as their roles change in the new year.
Edubytes – 2023 in review
This month, the Edubytes editorial team looks back on the resources, articles and stories that stood out across the year in teaching and learning.
Looking back at UBC’s 9th Learning Analytics Hackathon
This year’s hackathon gathered 100 UBC students to create, design, and explore data-driven solutions for enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.
Implementing computational tools for learning
In our November edition of Edubytes, our guest editor Francis Jones, shares the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences’s project to implement open source computational tools and teaching tactics to facilitate hands-on interdisciplinary learning in data-driven scientific exploration.
Call for nominations for OER Excellence and Impact Awards
The OER Excellence and Impact Awards recognize outstanding work done by faculty who materially advance the use and impact of open educational resources in credit courses at UBC. Nominations are due by November 30.
GenAI is disrupting Teaching and Learning
In the October edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Elisa Baniassad and Lucas Wright, share how the CTLT is helping instructors navigating the era of generative AI.
Orange Shirt Day 2023
In the September edition of Edubytes, Janelle Kasperski, Kyle Shaughnessy, Carissa Block, and Samantha Nock share the history of the residential school system and context for understanding the ongoing impacts.
Empowering Language Learners: Technology’s Role in Celebrating Arabic Dialects
In this story, one instructor shares how she used technology to amplify spoken Arabic dialects, preserve immigrant stories, and empower her students in the process.
Upcoming Events: Gen AI in Teaching and Learning
Join our weekly online drop-in clinics and interactive workshops designed to assist faculty and staff in navigating this new landscape.
New resource: Assessment Design in an Era of Generative AI
This resource provides some considerations and suggestions around designing assessments in response to the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence tools that can generate text, such as ChatGPT and Bing AI.
