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 […]

Free

Doctoral Defence: Doctoral Examination and Defence Procedures

Online/Virtual Event

The Doctoral Defence information session walks students through the doctoral examination process and explains the different defence modes - in-person, virtual, and hybrid. The session includes: Steps in the doctoral examination, Timelines and pressure points, and a Q&A. General registration opens on Monday, August 12th at 9 am. Registration is open to current UBC-V graduate […]

Free

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 […]

Interview Preparation Strategies

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Practice answering tough questions, asking interviewers good questions, and get tips for how to prepare your stories in advance.