Will Engle
Will is engaged with projects that leverage emerging technologies and pedagogies to support open learning. As a strategist for open education initiatives, he has worked on a range of initiatives that have included helping to support open pedagogy-based assignments that emphasize students as collaborators in the production of knowledge, the effective integration of open resources […]
Shaya Golparian
Shaya develops and coordinates the TA Development Program at CTLT. This includes consulting with departments to plan, design, deliver and evaluate department-specific TA teaching skills development. Shaya designs and facilitates capacity-building workshops for department TA training programs, and coordinates the TA training community of Practice. She is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and a […]
Isabeau Iqbal
At CTLT, Isabeau (she/her) leads the Formative Peer Review of Teaching program and co-leads the Teaching Development Program for New Faculty. In addition, Isabeau works with instructors who are developing their teaching portfolios and facilitates workshops on various topics. Isabeau holds a PhD in Education from UBC and is a Professional Certified Coach with the […]
Rie Namba
Rie designs, develops, supports and maintains resources to facilitate the use of open practices in teaching and learning (specifically Wiki, WordPress and H5P). Rie provides consultation to students, faculty, and staff who are incorporating open practices in their work and develops, implements, and curates educational resources and materials (guides, handouts, tutorials, websites) that address teaching […]
Emily Renoe
Emily is a Senior Educational Consultant: Learning Technologies at UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, and is co-located with the Learning Technology Innovation Collaboration (LTIC) group. She provides consultation, training, and project management support to faculty and staff integrating learning technologies across face-to-face and online environments. Emily co-leads the 2025 Teaching Development Program (TDP) […]
Joseph Topornycky
Joseph designs and develops CTLT’s overall programming and support for Graduate Students and Teaching Assistants at CTLT. Joseph works with his team to ensure that graduate student support is informed by current research on how people learn and well grounded teaching and learning theory in accord with the university’s strategic goals. He is also the […]
Jens Vent-Schmidt
Jens supports the UBC teaching and learning community through consultation, design and facilitation. He is an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) facilitator and a Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) trainer and involved in several teaching development workshops at CTLT, including the Faculty ISW and the Teaching Development Program (TDP) for new faculty. Jens has developed and facilitated […]
John Cheng
John collaborates with programs, faculty, staff and students to develop innovative and inclusive learning and course designs. He holds a Master of Educational Technology from the University of British Columbia and has an extensive background supporting educational technology-driven teaching and learning at UBC. While best practices guide his work, he loves to experiment with new […]
Manuel Dias
Manuel supports faculty and staff in integrating technology in their teaching and learning practice. He has more than seven years of experience in educational development and instructional design to support instructors in face-to-face, fully online and blended learning contexts. He has a keen interest in course design to enhance student engagement and collaboration online using […]
