Series: 2025 Winter Institute During the pandemic, many of us showed remarkable care and flexibility—especially in post-secondary education, where everyone had to quickly adapt to online learning. As post-pandemic demands grow, that collective gentleness is harder to maintain. What if care wasn’t something we added only in crisis but built into teaching and learning from […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute The labour of caring for student wellbeing disproportionately falls to Educational Leadership (EL) faculty and particularly to those from equity-denied groups. This labour is often not recognized or supported. Being drained from emotional labour of supporting students’ wellbeing means that EL faculty cannot fully engage in educational leadership activities, nor optimally […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute University educators are ideally positioned to offer their students what Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, called “education in hope” – a forward-looking, critically aware, and action-oriented understanding of the complexities that affect oneself and one’s society. And yet, educators themselves face their own contentious relationship to hope amidst unpredictable times of austerity, […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at the CTLT is excited to offer another installment of “Building Capacity” a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Winter InstituteBuildi. This installment of Building Capacity is grounded in […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute At UBC, year-long courses are not so simply the sum of two, term-length courses. How, then, might one approach the pedagogical challenge of revising a year-long course into just that—two distinct courses? This was the dilemma that our Student-Faculty partnership embraced as we came together to collaborate, redesign, and split a […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute This session offers practical guided examples showing how teachers can use the first few minutes of class to lead starter activities that foster care, trust, and connection, while creating a safe and welcoming learning environment and a sense of community. Participants will gain a toolkit of strategies ready to implement in […]

Speaker: Veena Sriram, University of BC Countries around the world are experiencing health workforce crises, characterized by shortages, burnout and attrition of health workers. Protests by health workers have also gained visibility, exemplified by widespread attention to these actions during COVID-19. Dr Sriram will present findings from research on trends in the use of protest […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute Kindness-informed pedagogies could be a tool for transformation (Magnet et al., 2014) that “challenges learners to see beyond their existing world views to appreciate and value self and others” (Gorny-Wegrzyn & Perry, 2021, p. 228) while centering compassion and critical awareness. In this session, we will explore pedagogies of kindness and […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute How can collaborative writing transform the way students learn, think, and connect? This 30-minute presentation shares insights from a three-year project exploring “Reading Circles”—a student-led, role-based activity in a first-year research writing course. Using Etherpad, a collaborative online writing tool, students engaged in critical discussions and co-authored texts, fostering deeper understanding, […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute Generative AI This 30-minute online presentation draws from the We’re Only Human TLEF project, which supports faculty in navigating GenAI’s impact on writing-intensive courses. The presentation invites participants to reflect on emotional barriers students face when using GenAI—such as discomfort, ethical concerns, and fear of judgment—and how these affect classroom dialogue […]

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 presentation […]

Series: Open Education Are you planning on applying for an OER Fund grant? Register for any of these online sessions to discuss your project ideas and receive feedback and advice on topics such as open resource design, pedagogical approach, copyright and open licenses (Creative Commons), learning technology integration, OER evaluation, accessibility, project scope, and budget development.  During these […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute This roundtable explores a collaborative teaching approach used in the UBC Master of Occupational Therapy program, where students and faculty co-designed a class on anti-oppressive practice. Participants will reflect on the potential and challenges of integrating student voices in health professions education and leave with strategies for relational, inclusive teaching. Please […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute Inclusive Teaching Join a panel of three UBC teaching faculty members, as well as STEPS Forward Inclusion Facilitators, who together are co-creating meaningful, student-led, and fully inclusive learning opportunities for UBC students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Inclusive Post-Secondary Education is a social movement in Canada to include students with developmental […]

Series: 2025 Winter Institute Flexible Assessment, offering students some flexibility on how their learning is assessed, is more than a grading strategy. It centers student voice and fosters inclusive learning environments. In this session, we will walk through how we have used this Canvas-integrated tool to offer students choice in how they are assessed, while […]