Grapes to Glass is a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series offered by UBC's Faculty of Land and Food Systems. You will use your senses to learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Visit UBC's Wine Library - home to […]
Step into a timeless world as the UBC Players Club presents Head over Heels by Peter Anderson! Embark on a whimsical journey where Shakespeare meets the surreal. Lose yourself in a world where time plays tricks, identities unravel, and every moment is a magical 11:11. Join us for an unforgettable reimagining of the rom-com, Twelfth […]
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill’s suspenseful and stylishly structured play, Concord Floral, onstage at the Frederic Wood Theatre, November 22–December 2. UBC Theatre and Film’s 2023/2024 season opener is directed by Arthi Chandra and features the talents of BFA Acting and Production & Design students. Concord Floral, a vast and eerie […]
Engage in a discussion of sharing public health data and technological advances that assure security with health professionals, researchers, and patient representatives presenting their community health research endeavours.
Step into a timeless world as the UBC Players Club presents Head over Heels by Peter Anderson! Embark on a whimsical journey where Shakespeare meets the surreal. Lose yourself in a world where time plays tricks, identities unravel, and every moment is a magical 11:11. Join us for an unforgettable reimagining of the rom-com, Twelfth […]
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill’s suspenseful and stylishly structured play, Concord Floral, onstage at the Frederic Wood Theatre, November 22–December 2. UBC Theatre and Film’s 2023/2024 season opener is directed by Arthi Chandra and features the talents of BFA Acting and Production & Design students. Concord Floral, a vast and eerie […]
In this 90-minute workshop, we will introduce you to the exciting intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in education. Discover how AI can be harnessed to enhance the teaching and learning experience and make it more inclusive for all, while following UDL Principles. By the end of the workshop, you […]
The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving […]
Step into a timeless world as the UBC Players Club presents Head over Heels by Peter Anderson! Embark on a whimsical journey where Shakespeare meets the surreal. Lose yourself in a world where time plays tricks, identities unravel, and every moment is a magical 11:11. Join us for an unforgettable reimagining of the rom-com, Twelfth […]
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill’s suspenseful and stylishly structured play, Concord Floral, onstage at the Frederic Wood Theatre, November 22–December 2. UBC Theatre and Film’s 2023/2024 season opener is directed by Arthi Chandra and features the talents of BFA Acting and Production & Design students. Concord Floral, a vast and eerie […]
In the week recognizing the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we invite you to take part in a workshop with Accessibility Consultant Karen Lai to shift our thinking about inclusion and accessibility. We need to be continually in conversation about it, rather than offer a set of prescribed set of guidelines of including […]
Step into a timeless world as the UBC Players Club presents Head over Heels by Peter Anderson! Embark on a whimsical journey where Shakespeare meets the surreal. Lose yourself in a world where time plays tricks, identities unravel, and every moment is a magical 11:11. Join us for an unforgettable reimagining of the rom-com, Twelfth […]
Step into a timeless world as the UBC Players Club presents Head over Heels by Peter Anderson! Embark on a whimsical journey where Shakespeare meets the surreal. Lose yourself in a world where time plays tricks, identities unravel, and every moment is a magical 11:11. Join us for an unforgettable reimagining of the rom-com, Twelfth […]
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill’s suspenseful and stylishly structured play, Concord Floral, onstage at the Frederic Wood Theatre, November 22–December 2. UBC Theatre and Film’s 2023/2024 season opener is directed by Arthi Chandra and features the talents of BFA Acting and Production & Design students. Concord Floral, a vast and eerie […]
Join weekly 30-minute online meditation sessions led by Iris Escuer Riera, Lecturer of Spanish at UBC. Open to all. Zoom access link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94414244817?pwd=OGFPK1FrSXZIQ1dzc25Cd05UUjY5UT09
Online Evaluation activities are important to think about throughout the life of your TLEF, OER or SaP project, as evaluation allows you to monitor and refine the development of the project. Evaluation also allows you to report out on the project impact, which will help you to secure continuing funding and engage others in better […]
The Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (OISI) will discuss information about the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund. This information session will discuss Stream 1: Innovative Projects, Stream 2: Transformative Projects and Stream 3: Student-led Projects. The ISI Fund is open to UBC-Vancouver and UBC-Okanagan faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. To find out more about the ISI Fund in […]
Storing your data in a repository like Borealis makes it easy for other researchers, publishers, and collaborators to find, use, and cite your data. It supports the Open Science movement goals of transparency, accessibility, and collaboration, and can increase attention to your work. Please join us for this short hands-on workshop to learn how to […]
The Generative AI Drop-In clinics are open for all faculty and staff at UBC and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. The sessions will be in an open-hours format where the questions will be answered such that all […]
Microaggressions continue to be the most pervasive and undetected contributor to racism in many institutions, including educational settings. However, microaggressions are not micro. For those who are the target of microaggressions, severe consequences on mental well-being and life trajectories can result. In this presentation, Hieu will use her children’s picture book, The Little Girl to examine ‘What […]
The First Nations House of Learning is hosting an Indigenous Community Holiday Craft Fair on Thursday, December 7th, from 3–5pm at Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall. The UBC community is invited to attend this exciting fair, which celebrates Indigenous art and craftspersonship. Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members will be displaying and selling their art and handmade crafts, […]
Do you have questions about how to thoughtfully integrate Indigenous content and representation into your course work? Curious about how to offer meaningful land acknowledgements in online meetings or events at UBC? Indigenous Initiatives’ Virtual Coffee Drop-ins are great place to explore these topics, connect with others on the same learning path, or just get […]
Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an OER Accessibility clinic to chat one on one with specialists about how to design or adapt […]
In this Indigenous Speaker Series session, we will have a conversation with Andrew Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson – Amo Binashii, authors of Valley of the Birdtail. In this Indigenous Speakers Series session, we will learn about what it means to be Indigenous in Canada, what it means for all of us to be Canadians in […]
The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving […]
Multi-access The end of term brings many hours of grading final assignments, which can be overwhelming and isolating. Why not come and spend some of your grading hours in the company of your contract faculty colleagues in our last Community of Practice event of 2023? We’ll have a large, light-filled and quiet room, snacks, a […]
Abstract: The internet is a trove of information. A lot of it is publicly available and thus suitable for use in research. Extracting that information and putting it in an organized format for analysis can however be extremely tedious. Web scraping tools allow to automate parts of that process and Python is a popular language […]
UBC's Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS) is excited to announce our 2023-2024 Behavioural Insights Seminar Series featuring an exciting set of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Register to attend at https://bit.ly/DIBSseminars. Join us on select Fridays at 1-2pm Pacific […]
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Location: Zoom. Description: Join Aisha Tejani for a 20-minute, virtual mindfulness session every Monday from September 11 to December 18 – you can take part in a single session or multiple sessions! Taking place from 9:30-9:50 am join Aisha and an engaged community to […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Well-being in learning environments is foundational to achieving deeper learning and academic success. The need to highlight health and wellbeing in teaching and learning about climate change has been identified by UBC faculty, support units, and the Climate Emergency Task Force […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Learn what UBC Studios is all about at our in-person Open House! Our team will introduce our professional services including video, animation, graphic design and 3D scanning, as well as our easy to use Do-It-Yourself support services, including workshops, DIY video […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. The rapid growth of Generative AI is impacting higher education and may change the process of teaching. Through this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on their teaching approach and discuss how to navigate this growing field of AI to positively impact […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. This panel session invites faculty, students, and staff from across UBC to discuss what it means to decolonize and Indigenize academic writing and scholarly communication. Efforts towards UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) goal #4, “Indigenizing Our Curriculum,” are being made in […]
The Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (OISI) will discuss information about the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund. This information session will discuss Stream 1: Innovative Projects, Stream 2: Transformative Projects and Stream 3: Student-led Projects. The ISI Fund is open to UBC-Vancouver and UBC-Okanagan faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. To find out more about the ISI Fund in […]
The UBC Department of Surgery Grand Rounds is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. These rounds are typically scheduled on the second Wednesday every month during the academic year (September to June), from 7 am to 8 am, and are […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. In this panel, participants will be provided with recommendations and strategies to aid them when developing collaborative learning activities in their own classrooms. As panelists reflect on their own experiences, we will explore many benefits related to collaborative learning, such as […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Student Experience of Instruction (SEI) quantitative data often consists of responses on a Likert-type scale (most commonly a 5 or 7-point scale). For many years, the mean (average) and standard deviation were used at UBC to summarize and present quantitative data […]
Srinivas Murthy, MD CM, MH.Sc. Scientist, Advancing Health Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Peter Wall Scholar 2022–23 Embedding research within care: Adaptive platform trials as learning health systems. COVID-19 has demonstrated that high-quality randomized evidence is possible to obtain, even during health emergencies. However, it also highlighted […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. In this workshop, we will explore how to foster a supportive classroom environment for both students and instructors by acknowledging that everyone can experience and can be impacted by trauma. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your role as […]
Multi-campus instruction (MCI), also known as distributed learning, is a course format that involves a single instructor in a classroom at one location (the “local” cohort) synchronously teaching “local” and “remote” cohorts of students situated at other campuses. Students in the “remote” cohorts attend through Information and Communications Technology (ICT) such as video conferencing equipment. […]
The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving […]
Are you designing or teaching a course with learning outcomes related to teamwork, project management and risk, or student self-reflection? The department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) developed a series of workshops for the ECE Capstone Design course. These workshops were based on CCEL’s Social Impacts […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. This session is for faculty and instructors, staff and teaching assistants. Expect to learn what the Early Alert (EA) program is, how it supports students in distress, and how it connects to your role. Specific focus will be on when to […]
A la découverte des fromages - Cheese appreciation workshop Cheese has long been an important part of traditional French culture. France has documented hundreds of varieties of cheese, and the average person is said to eat more than 26kg of cheese a year. In this two-hour workshop, explore – and taste! – eight major families […]
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Let’s explore some of the ways we can incorporate the principles of community accountability into our teaching! Community accountability is a grassroots approach to addressing sexualized and gender-based violence in marginalized communities by turning to creative and collective interventions at both […]