Online In this online workshop, participants explored GenAI custom chatbots designed to assist with specific tasks, such as generating alt text for improved image accessibility, finding and summarizing academic articles, composing text, and creating PowerPoint presentations. The workshop covered various GPT models available in the ChatGPT Plus store and introduced Poe, a platform that enables […]
The Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics is hosting the 2024 Business for Social Good Summit: Balancing Purpose and Profit to advance the cross-sectoral dialogue about how business can be a force for social good—benefitting the planet and the people that live on it. To tackle the pressing question of how businesses can find […]
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 […]
Join UBC's Research Security team to learn more about research security and federal government requirements when applying for research funding from the Tri-Agencies and CFI. This webinar will include information on research security best practices, guidance on how to navigate these new policies, and examples of sensitive research areas and research security case studies. The […]
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]
Online Generative AI is opening up new possibilities for faculty to examine their learning environments. This can involve analyzing grades, assignments, and teaching materials and grading assignments and assessments. Join us for a one-hour interactive session to explore how GenAI can be used to analyze our teaching and learning processes, and to understand the associated […]
About the Talk In this presentation, Dr. Cerdeña will discuss how state failure in Latin America drives migration to the United States, how racist and capitalist policies of immigration enforcement control migrant bodies, and how migrant mothers living in Connecticut demonstrate “imperative resilience”—defined as social and cognitive strategies to resist oppression—to build futures for their […]
Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights […]
Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible to all learners? Or do you have specific questions about formatting your Open Educational Resources (OER) to be accessible for everyone? Join us at the Accessibility Studio, where you can drop in for a one-on-one chat with our specialists. Gain valuable insights into designing accessible course materials or creating and adapting […]
The prospect of talking to young people about sex and sexual health can be a difficult one, often made more challenging by a lack of knowledge, personal discomfort, or shame around the topic. The good news is that these conversations don’t need to be feared or avoided. If you are a parent, guardian, or an […]
Join us for an interactive session on dissemination of your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. We will discuss different approaches to writing SoTL and share guiding principles for writing in some of the most common SoTL genres: empirical research articles, reflective essays and conference presentations. We will also compare different styles of publications […]
Learn the basics of using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration. Git is widely used version control software that tracks changes to a group of files, referred to as a repository. GitHub is a popular website for hosting and sharing Git repositories, making it easier to collaborate and share your work. Together, Git and GitHub provide a […]
