Student Learning
Recap: 2019 TA Institute
By Anna Alger on February 26, 2019
The 2019 Teaching Assistant Institute brought TAs, undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of Faculties and departments together in order to gain knowledge and exchange learning about TAship.
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Open Dialogues: Using augmented reality to enhance learning
By Abigail Saxton on July 18, 2018
In a media-rich world, UBC geography professor Siobhan McPhee is using technology for her students’ advantage.
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Learning Technology Innovation Summit explores the future of teaching and learning
By Heidi Wudrick on May 2, 2018
UBC’s 10th annual Celebrate Learning Week kicked off Monday, April 30 with UBC’s inaugural Learning Technology Innovation Summit.
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Open Dialogues: Using wiki pages to advance student-created knowledge
By Abigail Saxton on March 26, 2018
Students in the Faculty of Forestry are no strangers to producing engaging content surrounding natural resources management — the medium is changing though.
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5 High Impact Teaching Practices
By Michael Wong on July 29, 2015
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.
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Applying Principles of Learning to Teaching – With or Without Technology
By Michael Wong on July 29, 2015
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.
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Join us in Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment
By Michael Wong on May 11, 2015
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.
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Where Are We in the World? – Announcing a New Film Series
By Sarah Ling on March 27, 2015
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.
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Giving Ownership of Learning back to the Students: Flat Space, Deep Learning
By Amy Luo on March 25, 2015
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.
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unceded.
By Sarah Ling on February 10, 2015
unceded. was on display in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre from Jan.18-Feb.25, 2015. Find out more about this exhibit and visit the online archive.
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