UBC professors discuss importance of territory acknowledgements
UBC professors discuss the meaning and importance of territory and land acknowledgements, their broader cultural meaning, and how to meaningfully incorporate them into the classroom.
Open textbooks save UBC Math students $1,000,000
UBC Math instructors have widely adopted open or freely accessible textbooks, saving students money and providing them with a more customized learning experience.
Open Dialogues: How to engage with a new generation of learners
Jon Festinger, an instructor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, explains how he has been using open education tools to engage students in a course about video game law.
Developing original learning technology
English professor Tiffany Potter wanted to bring learning technology into her classroom but struggled with how to make technology serve her discipline, rather than the other way around.
Campus Climate and Sexual Violence on Campus
How do we begin to address those contexts in how and what we teach? How do the events, policies, and institutional changes on our university campus affect our learners and the work we do in our classrooms?
New faculty and staff welcomed to UBC
This year’s orientation, hosted in late August by CTLT and UBC Human Resources, welcomed more than ninety new faculty and staff members from a range of units, departments, and faculties.
Designing good learning environments
Instructors talk about how to design good learning environments on campus.
Learning Technology: Enhancing WordPress as a learning technology
Philosophy professor Christina Hendricks created Studiorum, a set of plugins for WordPress, to improve the critiquing process for students in her Arts One.
Curriculum Mapping in the Faculty of Arts
Curriculum mapping is helping departments across UBC identify gaps or redundancies in their degree programs, and spot missed opportunities.
Learning Technology Environment Renewal Project
Faculty and students are being consulted university-wide to evaluate future options for the core of our Learning Technology Environment. Your feedback is essential to capture the pedagogical and functional requirements that support faculty in meeting their teaching goals and students in their learning.
