- Events
- Audience – Faculty and Staff – Vancouver
In-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
University Services Building (USB) 2329 West Mall, VancouverUBC Surgery Grand Rounds
Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Health Education Centre 899 West 12th Avenue, VancouverCANCELLED: Student Experience of Instruction: Making Sense of Student Feedback
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverEmbedding research within care: Adaptive platform trials as learning health systems
See DescriptionThe Trauma Aware Classroom: 5 Considerations That Will Have a Positive Impact on Your Students and Yourself
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverReflective Decision-Making: Social Impact Lab Toolkit Applied to a 4th Year Engineering Capstone Course
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverFrench – Discovering Cheese – Lower Intermediate to Advanced
UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, VancouverIncorporating the Principle of Community Accountability into Our Classrooms
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver- No events scheduled for December 16, 2023.
- No events scheduled for December 17, 2023.
Week of Events
Mindful Mondays with Aisha
Mindful Mondays with Aisha
Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Location: Zoom. Description: Join Aisha Tejani for a 20-minute, virtual mindfulness session every Monday from September 11 to December 18 – you can take part in a single session or multiple sessions! Taking place from 9:30-9:50 am join Aisha and an engaged community to […]
Integrating Climate and Well-being into Your Teaching
Integrating Climate and Well-being into Your Teaching
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Well-being in learning environments is foundational to achieving deeper learning and academic success. The need to highlight health and wellbeing in teaching and learning about climate change has been identified by UBC faculty, support units, and the Climate Emergency Task Force […]
In-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
In-Person UBC Studios Open House and Tour
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Learn what UBC Studios is all about at our in-person Open House! Our team will introduce our professional services including video, animation, graphic design and 3D scanning, as well as our easy to use Do-It-Yourself support services, including workshops, DIY video […]
Navigating the GenAI Landscape: A Focus on Student Learning and Prompt Design
Navigating the GenAI Landscape: A Focus on Student Learning and Prompt Design
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. The rapid growth of Generative AI is impacting higher education and may change the process of teaching. Through this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on their teaching approach and discuss how to navigate this growing field of AI to positively impact […]
Decolonizing Academic Writing
Decolonizing Academic Writing
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. This panel session invites faculty, students, and staff from across UBC to discuss what it means to decolonize and Indigenize academic writing and scholarly communication. Efforts towards UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) goal #4, “Indigenizing Our Curriculum,” are being made in […]
Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Information Sessions
Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Information Sessions
The Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (OISI) will discuss information about the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund. This information session will discuss Stream 1: Innovative Projects, Stream 2: Transformative Projects and Stream 3: Student-led Projects. The ISI Fund is open to UBC-Vancouver and UBC-Okanagan faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. To find out more about the ISI Fund in […]
UBC Surgery Grand Rounds
UBC Surgery Grand Rounds
The UBC Department of Surgery Grand Rounds is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. These rounds are typically scheduled on the second Wednesday every month during the academic year (September to June), from 7 am to 8 am, and are […]
Collaborative Learning: Recommendations and Strategies for Use When Developing Collaborative Learning Activities in Your Classroom
Collaborative Learning: Recommendations and Strategies for Use When Developing Collaborative Learning Activities in Your Classroom
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. In this panel, participants will be provided with recommendations and strategies to aid them when developing collaborative learning activities in their own classrooms. As panelists reflect on their own experiences, we will explore many benefits related to collaborative learning, such as […]
CANCELLED: Student Experience of Instruction: Making Sense of Student Feedback
CANCELLED: Student Experience of Instruction: Making Sense of Student Feedback
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Student Experience of Instruction (SEI) quantitative data often consists of responses on a Likert-type scale (most commonly a 5 or 7-point scale). For many years, the mean (average) and standard deviation were used at UBC to summarize and present quantitative data […]
Embedding research within care: Adaptive platform trials as learning health systems
Embedding research within care: Adaptive platform trials as learning health systems
Srinivas Murthy, MD CM, MH.Sc. Scientist, Advancing Health Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Peter Wall Scholar 2022–23 Embedding research within care: Adaptive platform trials as learning health systems. COVID-19 has demonstrated that high-quality randomized evidence is possible to obtain, even during health emergencies. However, it also highlighted […]
Data Bites – Best Practices for File Formatting
Data Bites – Best Practices for File Formatting
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file formatting. Join us to learn more about data formats, data access, and preservation.
The Trauma Aware Classroom: 5 Considerations That Will Have a Positive Impact on Your Students and Yourself
The Trauma Aware Classroom: 5 Considerations That Will Have a Positive Impact on Your Students and Yourself
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. In this workshop, we will explore how to foster a supportive classroom environment for both students and instructors by acknowledging that everyone can experience and can be impacted by trauma. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your role as […]
CTLT Generative AI Support Clinic (Online Drop-in)
CTLT Generative AI Support Clinic (Online Drop-in)
The Generative AI Drop-In clinics are open for all faculty and staff at UBC and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics to do with the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. The sessions will be in an open-hours format where the questions will be answered such that all […]
Building Community Across Campuses: Preparing to Teach a Multi-Campus (Distributed Learning) Course
Building Community Across Campuses: Preparing to Teach a Multi-Campus (Distributed Learning) Course
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 “remote” cohorts attend through Information and Communications Technology (ICT) such as video conferencing equipment. […]
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Drop-In)
The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving […]
Reflective Decision-Making: Social Impact Lab Toolkit Applied to a 4th Year Engineering Capstone Course
Reflective Decision-Making: Social Impact Lab Toolkit Applied to a 4th Year Engineering Capstone Course
Are you designing or teaching a course with learning outcomes related to teamwork, project management and risk, or student self-reflection? The department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) developed a series of workshops for the ECE Capstone Design course. These workshops were based on CCEL’s Social Impacts […]
Orientation to the Early Alert Program at UBC
Orientation to the Early Alert Program at UBC
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. This session is for faculty and instructors, staff and teaching assistants. Expect to learn what the Early Alert (EA) program is, how it supports students in distress, and how it connects to your role. Specific focus will be on when to […]
French – Discovering Cheese – Lower Intermediate to Advanced
French – Discovering Cheese – Lower Intermediate to Advanced
A la découverte des fromages - Cheese appreciation workshop Cheese has long been an important part of traditional French culture. France has documented hundreds of varieties of cheese, and the average person is said to eat more than 26kg of cheese a year. In this two-hour workshop, explore – and taste! – eight major families […]
Incorporating the Principle of Community Accountability into Our Classrooms
Incorporating the Principle of Community Accountability into Our Classrooms
This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 11-15, 2023. Let’s explore some of the ways we can incorporate the principles of community accountability into our teaching! Community accountability is a grassroots approach to addressing sexualized and gender-based violence in marginalized communities by turning to creative and collective interventions at both […]