• Where Can My Degree Take Me?

    Online/Virtual Event

    If you’re not sure what you’re going to do with your degree, you’re not alone. We’re not taught from an early age how to answer those big life questions like “What should I do with my life?”. The future can feel very foggy. This workshop will give you fresh ideas, tools and strategies to explore and reflect […]

  • Generative AI Studios

    Generative AI Studios
    Online/Virtual Event

    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 […]

  • Conversations in Pedagogy: Why Think Deeply About Pedagogy?

    Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    It is sometimes tempting to think of teaching as a very nuts-and-bolts task, and often quite separate from lofty discussions of value, purpose, and philosophy, or that becoming a good teacher involves the development and mastery of skills and techniques, while thinking deeply about teaching, while interesting, has less impact on students, and so much […]

  • The Crash of the International Student ‘Market’: Causes, Consequences, and the Future of Canadian Higher Education

    Online/Virtual Event

    Join us to discuss the impact of recent policy changes on international students in Canada and how they intersect with colonial dynamics and the future of higher education. For decades, Canadian higher education turned to international student recruitment to make up for stagnant public funds. However, growing public concern that international students were competing for […]

    Free
  • Teaching and AI: Contract Faculty Community of Practice

    Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    In this session, we will present some ways in which we can use A.I. tools effectively in our teaching, as well as some techniques that will offer deep learning methods that train students to focus on developing their individual critical thinking skills, rather than on learning how to use A.I. There will be time for […]

  • Grapes to Glass: Wine Education and Tasting Series

    Grapes to Glass: Wine Education and Tasting Series
    Food, Nutrition and Health Building 2205 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Join Grapes to Glass – a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series presented by the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Tour the UBC Wine Library – home to 4,000 unique bottles […]