Ungrading Student Presentations: Toward Some New Paradigms for Evaluating Student Speaking

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Scholarly speaking is regularly expected and evaluated in classrooms across our campus—through in-class discussions, individual or group oral presentations, or other multimedia assignments (e.g. podcasts). Yet many of us, not being trained to teach “public speaking,” must assume that effective […]

Introduction to Oxygen XML editor

Walter C. Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Oxygen is a popular tool for editing and publishing XML documents and is frequently used to create Digital Editions when working with TEI XML. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Oxygen and best practices around editing scholarly XML documents. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to: Idenfity features of […]

Free

Impact of Multi-Access Delivery on Student Learning and Sense of Course Community

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. As the world emerges from the pandemic, students are increasingly requesting more courses to be offered in a hybrid or multi-access format to provide greater flexibility during times of need. However, concerns have been raised about whether virtual participation will […]

Learn to Create Interactive Computational Learning Experiences with Jupyter!

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Data is an important part of many disciplines – either as an object of study, or to illustrate an object of study. We want students to deeply understand the patterns and relationships present in data, in order to create meaningful […]

How Can We Equitably Support Students’ Access, Engagement and Expectations, Across Hybrid and Multi-access Modalities?

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Join us for a collaborative workshop designed to explore hybrid and multi-access learning in diverse teaching contexts. This interactive session will focus on fostering equitable access and engagement in these learning modalities while acknowledging the creativity often needed to navigate […]

Increasing the Accessibility of Video

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. How to make video more accessible? Captions, ASL, descriptive video…. it can be overwhelming. During this presentation, Educational Media Producer Michael Sider from UBC Studios will reveal solutions from free and do-it-yourself to professional. You’ll find practical tips, guidance and […]

Literature Reviews: Mapping the Scholarly Conversation

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Literature reviews accomplish several purposes for scholars. In the introduction to a research article, research paper, or thesis chapter, for example, writers review relevant research in order to establish a research gap, problem, or need that the current study addresses. But how do writers summarize the scholarly conversation already underway and, then, join that conversation? […]

Teaching as Research: Defining Your Research Question & SoTL Methods – May 31, 2023

Online/Virtual Event

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 […]

New and Creative Ways to Embed Climate and Sustainability in your Class: Approaches from Five Faculties at UBC

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. A growing number of UBC faculty from across disciplines are incorporating sustainability and climate change content into their courses and programs. Participants in this session will hear from faculty members from Applied Science, Arts, Education, Medicine, and Science who have […]

Work in Progress Seminar — Citizen Science — A method to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions

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The Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) is presenting a hybrid Work in Progress seminar with CHÉOS Research Associate Alison Hoens, CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Linda Li, and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Codie Primeau who will be sharing how to engage the public in asking and answering novel research questions. This CHÉOS WiP session will […]

Free

How do Instructors Design Experiential Education Activities in Large, First Year Courses in the Faculty of Arts?

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. This interactive panel brings together faculty members who have strong evidence-based beliefs in the teaching and learning outcomes that are possible through high quality experiential education (EE) in the classroom. Instructors from departments across the Faculty of Arts will share […]

From Theory to Practice: Streamlining Flexible Assessment with Canvas

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from May 29–June 1, 2023. Are you tired of the traditional approach to grading, where instructors decide how much each assignment or exam is worth? Do you want to empower your students to take charge of their own learning by giving them control over how […]