Health Data Analytics Information Session

Online/Virtual Event

The UBC Micro-certificate in Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Applications is a new program for health care professionals and researchers in the health sector with exposure to health data, either clinical or operational. Designed by industry and academic experts, the micro-certificate consists of three four-week online courses, combining self-paced independent study with weekly live online sessions. In […]

Free

Communicating Climate Hope 2024 Conference

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

“Communicating Climate Hope 2024” is a two-day distributed/hybrid conference, co-hosted and co-located at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada and Tilburg University (TiU) in the Netherlands, to be held August 15-16, 2024. The Communicating Climate Hope conference will bring together a diversity of experts in climate communication, including those who identify primarily as academic researchers, artists, […]

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The event will feature a slide lecture on incense, Japanese incense ceremony, and beneficial effects of incense. The participants will also experience the fragrance of kyara which is the highest quality of agarwood and sandalwood as well as the original fermented neri-koh along with a demonstration of Japanese incense ceremony. This event is free and open to the public. No registration is […]

Building Authentic Assessment for Learning – August 19, 2024

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. Teaching online during the pandemic forced us to re-examine our assessment practices and re-imagine ways to assess students’ true ability in the real-world environment.  In the past years, faculty members explored many authentic assessment methods to assess students remotely during Covid. […]

Written Assessment in the Era of Generative AI

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. Join your peers in an interactive workshop where you will reflect, assess and re-imagine a writing assignment from one of your courses. AI’s emergence presents serious challenges for many of our written assessments. Collaborate with your peers to understand and unpack […]

Accessibility is Not a Feature: Simple Steps to Support Students’ Access to Course Materials

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

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. Technology is incredible and greatly enhances access, but it isn’t always reliable. Have you ever had a Monday where everything that could go wrong with your computer did? Learning management systems (LMS) like Canvas are a great way to disseminate materials, […]

Building Community Across Campuses: Preparing to Teach a Multi-Campus (Distributed Learning) Course

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. 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 […]

August Climate Conversation

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Join Naoko Ellis (Applied Science) and Derek Gladwin (Education), Co-Leads of UBC’s Transdisciplinary Education PhD, to discuss the conditions that foster transdisciplinary research. Bring your lunch, we will bring the iced tea! Find us in the courtyard behind the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, and no registration is necessary but check our website for location updates