Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia

Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]

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Ocean Education: Developing knowledge, caring, and taking action

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia

Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]

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Online Book Club | Project Hail Mary

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Embark upon a gripping interstellar adventure with Project Hail Mary, written by the author of The Martian. An astronaut awakens to find he’s the only survivor on a small spaceship that’s light years away from any humans. Unfortunately, he can’t remember a thing, including his assignment. Yet if he fails, the Earth and humanity are […]

Literature Reviews: Mapping the Scholarly Conversation

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Literature reviews accomplish several purposes for scholars. In the introduction to a research article, research paper, or thesis chapter, for example, writers review relevant research in order to establish a research gap, problem, or need that the current study addresses. But how do writers summarize the scholarly conversation already underway and, then, join that conversation? […]

Teaching as Research: Defining Your Research Question & SoTL Methods – May 31, 2023

Online/Virtual Event

TAR Workshops are designed to give interns authentic teaching experiences and to apply their understanding of evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom or in an informal science education or outreach setting. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, together with their teaching partner, identify a challenge to student learning in the classroom, develop new teaching resources or […]

New and Creative Ways to Embed Climate and Sustainability in your Class: Approaches from Five Faculties at UBC

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. A growing number of UBC faculty from across disciplines are incorporating sustainability and climate change content into their courses and programs. Participants in this session will hear from faculty members from Applied Science, Arts, Education, Medicine, and Science who have […]

Work in Progress Seminar — Citizen Science — A method to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions

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The Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) is presenting a hybrid Work in Progress seminar with CHÉOS Research Associate Alison Hoens, CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Linda Li, and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Codie Primeau who will be sharing how to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions. This CHÉOS WiP session will […]

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How do Instructors Design Experiential Education Activities in Large, First Year Courses in the Faculty of Arts?

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. This interactive panel brings together faculty members who have strong evidence-based beliefs in the teaching and learning outcomes that are possible through high quality experiential education (EE) in the classroom. Instructors from departments across the Faculty of Arts will share […]

iCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia

iCON South Asian Chronic Disease Webinar Series: Answering your Questions About Diabetes will take place on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. Join our panel of health professionals in a webinar where they answer Q&A sessions about diabetes from the audience who attended the iCON South Asian Health Forum, “Take Charge of Your Health: Living Well Together […]

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From Theory to Practice: Streamlining Flexible Assessment with Canvas

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Are you tired of the traditional approach to grading, where instructors decide how much each assignment or exam is worth? Do you want to empower your students to take charge of their own learning by giving them control over how […]