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

Open Your Teaching: Enhancing Student Learning through Open Education Resources, Pedagogies and Practices

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. Open Education is a teaching and learning approach that utilizes unrestricted access to learning materials, collaborative knowledge creation and inclusive pedagogical practices in order to increase access to knowledge. In this workshop, we’ll explore the strategies that instructors at UBC are […]

Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop focuses on Large Language Models (LLM) to provide participants with a foundational understanding of LLM, their working, and how to fine-tune a pre-trained LLM for your own data. In this workshop, we will use cloud-based platforms, so you don’t need to have Python installed. Please make sure that you have a Google Colaboratory […]

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Making Sense of Student Feedback: Metrics for a More Meaningful Interrogation of SEI Data

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. At UBC, Student Experience of Instruction (SEI) quantitative data consists of responses on a 5-point Likert scale. An interactive dashboard is currently being developed to assist instructors, as well as administrators, to visualize the reported metrics (interpolated median, percent favorable and […]