Tools for Designing Interactive Courses: H5P

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

Student engagement is a critical factor known to significantly enhance student learning outcomes. Learning technologies can play an important role in fostering this engagement. H5P, a free and open-source tool, empowers users to create a wide array of interactive elements designed to enrich student engagement within learning management systems like Canvas. Recently launched by UBC, […]

Disability Justice Book Club: Disabled and Proud Cohort

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

The EDI Scholars-in-Residence program is hosting a Disability Justice Book Club across Winter Term 2. The club, led by Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, will explore themes of disability justice, ableism, allyship, and what it means to be disabled in academia. We will read a selection of texts each month before meeting to discuss takeaways. This club […]

Free

Employer on Campus: Library of Parliament

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Become a parliamentary guide!   Are you a bilingual student attending a Canadian university?  The Parliamentary Tour Program offers full-time student jobs in the summer season. As a Parliamentary Guide, you will work in the heart of Canadian democracy by leading guided tours, facilitating programming, and welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors to Parliament.   Join us […]

January Indigenous STEM Student Welcome Lunch

First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please join us on Wednesday, January 22nd, from 12:00–2:00pm at the Sty-wet-tan Great Hall in the First Nations House of Learning (The Longhouse) for an Indigenous STEM student welcome lunch. This is […]

Free
Event Series 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 […]