Open Dialogues: Using augmented reality to enhance learning
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhan McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage.
5 High Impact Teaching Practices
At STLHE 2015, Dr. L. Dee Fink discussed five high impact teaching practices that have the most potential to transform teaching and learning in higher education.
Applying Principles of Learning to Teaching – With or Without Technology
Dr. Marsha Lovett kicked off the 2015 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Conference by talking about how deliberate instruction can enhance teaching and learning, and how it can have a positive effect on the student learning experience.
Open Badges UBC – Pioneering Badge-Based Learning Pathways
Learn more about the Open Badges UBC project. Find out how UBC faculty and staff are implementing open badges in three pilot projects to encourage student engagement.
Flexible Learning in Nursing
Learn how the School of Nursing is implementing a hybrid approach to course delivery in the undergraduate curriculum. Instructors share their experience, and discuss how the hybrid approach is enhancing student learning, engagement, and satisfaction.
Call for Open Badges Pilot Project Applications
Learn more about the Open Badges UBC project, and submit an application to be involved in a pilot project.
Join us in Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment
The next installment of Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment (T-BLE) will take place from June 3 – July 29, 2015. Hear what faculty members have to say about their experience, and how they are transforming their courses as a result of T-BLE.
Student Photo Competition
Calling all students! We’re looking for photos that illustrate what teaching and learning in the 21st century looks like to you.
Where Are We in the World? – Announcing a New Film Series
Where Are We in the World? is a new film series that features sites around the Lower Mainland shaped by often ignored or hidden histories of struggle and agency.
Giving Ownership of Learning back to the Students: Flat Space, Deep Learning
Earlier this year, Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, joined UBC to share his team-based and project-based approach to an introductory physics course at Harvard.
