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Career Paths in Conservation: Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian’s Journey to Indigenous Conservation with the ISAAK OLAM Foundation

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Monday, December 9, 2024 Speaker(s): Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian 12:00-1:00PM in the AERL Building, Room 107 (2202 Main Mall). Meet and connect with Dr. Soudeh Jamshidian, Director of Education and International Relations of the IISAAK OLAM foundation, an organization focused on empowering Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada. Learn about her path, and how ISAAK OLAM fosters Indigenous knowledge and […]

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Unlearning Scarcity: Building a Culture of Flourishing and Reciprocity at UBC

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

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. In-person The CTLT invites you to join a World Café discussion designed to spark deep reflections and collaborative dialogue around wellbeing at UBC. This year, we are exploring what it means to approach wellbeing as a shared, collective responsibility—one that reaches […]

Using Labour-based Grading in Undergraduate Science Courses

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

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. In-person Emphasizing the process of learning over the outcome, labour-based grading has been shown to reduce student stress, increase course clarity, promote risk-taking, and enhance student autonomy, fostering a more supportive learning environment. It also minimizes instructor bias and accounts for […]

Why Do I Avoid my Student Evaluations of Teaching?

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

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. In-person At this roundtable session, we will acknowledge and honour the difficult emotional aspects of the SEoTs and provide an opportunity to discuss this in a collegial and empathetic environment. We will not be discussing the reliability and validity of SEoT, […]

Making Teaching, Learning, and Even Meetings More Joyful Through Improv and Theatre Games

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

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. In-person Are you tired of sitting and suffering through boring and unproductive meetings or dull lectures? Are you feeling blurgh in your teaching? Do you want you and your students and colleagues to become more receptive to new ideas, take risks, […]

UBC WinterBang! Festival

Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Music Building) 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

where code and music meet UBC Music students perform electroacoustic music using computer instruments and audio/video processes. Students control these instruments and processes through gesture tracking of traditional instruments, dance, piano or string performance, or by using webcams, Kinects, Wiis, accelerometers, game controls, custom circuits, Arduinos, iPhones, iPads, or other tablets. MUSC 319: students present […]

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UBC CPD: BC Virtual Health Grand Rounds: Reimagining Virtual Care through Patient Partnership

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The second quarterly session of this series will feature Dr. Adrian Yee who will speak on the topic of Reimagining Virtual Care through Patient Partnership. About the Rounds: Virtual Health Grand Rounds is a quarterly provincial rounds series for health-care professionals, health administrators, and IT colleagues to explore transformative, technology-enabled health-care delivery. The rounds spark discussion […]

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CTLT Indigenous Initiatives: Classroom Climate Forum

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

In-person Please join the CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Team for their inaugural Classroom Climate Forum. Expect a day of connecting, witnessing, learning, and laughs as we move together through curated sessions and facilitated conversations created to engage participants in relationally led learning on Classroom Climate by campus partners and the CTLT Indigenous Initiatives team.     What to Expect:   […]

Safer Spaces – Practices to Support Safety and Wellbeing in Learning Environments

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. Online What does classroom safety mean? What does it feel like to students and instructors, and how is it cultivated? Join members of UBC’s Workplace Wellbeing and Student Health Equity and Education teams for a dynamic session focused on showcasing some […]

Social Wellbeing in the Classroom Environment (Findings from Voice 6): Find Your Ingredients to Create a Classroom that Supports Student Retention, Social Wellbeing and Success

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. Online We will present the findings of an on campus Community-Based Participatory Action Project (Voice 6) exploring factors that influence social wellbeing. Research methodologies and results will be presented, followed by interactive discussions to consider how to use these data to […]

Tracking Mastery of Learning Outcomes in Canvas

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. Online While professors work hard to formulate clear and specific learning outcomes (LOs) for their courses, assignments and tests are typically not setup for teachers and learners to adequately monitor the fulfilment of course/program learning outcomes. For accredited programs, detailed demonstrable […]

Developing Learning Ecosystems

Online/Virtual Event

This event is part of the CTLT Winter Institute, taking place from December 9—11, 2024. Online There is a large body of literature that supports the idea that developing mastery of a subject can be achieved through learning-by-teaching. In this workshop, we will discuss some of the ways this type of mastery can be fostered, even […]