Teaching and learning funding opportunities
In the February edition of Edubytes, our guest editor Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, pro tem Dr. Simon Bates, shares information about current and upcoming teaching and learning opportunities on the UBC Vancouver campus.
Building trust: How UBC’s Students as Partners initiative improved the Middle East Studies’ undergraduate learning experience
Learn how UBC’s Students as Partners initiative helped improve students’ input by involving them in the design, delivery and assessment of a course.
Apply to the Students as Partners Fund
Have an idea for a course redesign project? Encouraging collaboration between faculty and undergraduate students, the Students as Partners Fund supports faculty-student partnerships to redesign undergraduate courses at UBC Vancouver.
The Inclusive Syllabus
In the January edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Judy Chan, Hailan Chen, John Cheng, Will Engle, Sue Hampton, Isabeau Iqbal and Bosung Kim discuss the inclusive syllabus.
Edubytes – 2022 in review
In the December edition of Edubytes, the editorial team looks back on the resources, articles and stories that stood out across the year in teaching and learning.
Students as Partners
In the November edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Roselynn Verwoord, Polina Petlitsyna, and Marissa Hall share an update on Students as Partners activity at UBC Vancouver.
UBC 8th Learning Analytics Hackathon – Untapping Canvas potential
This one-day event gave 100 UBC students a chance to showcase their learning analytics project and data skills, and to optimize the teaching and learning experience on Canvas.
Redesigning the Bachelor of Media Studies experience
Dr. Richard Arias-Hernandez and Christine D’Onofrio share how their team transformed the upcoming Bachelor of Media Studies’ curriculum to create a more unified learning experience for students.
Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence: Recommendations for Teaching and Learning
In the October edition of Edubytes, our guest editors Dr. Ryuko Kubota, Dr. Handel Kashope Wright and Dr. Shirley Chau discuss issues of teaching and learning featured in the University of British Columbia’s President’s Task Force on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Final Report.
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.
