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

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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

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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