Video Editing with Camtasia

Wednesday, March 10 | 2PM - 3PM

Learn how to create video content for courses by incorporating cuts, text headers, simple graphics, and more with Camtasia – a comprehensive video editing software that is useful for producing educational videos, screen recordings, and voiceovers

Facilitators: Arshiya Malik & Micah Pryne




Facilitating Peer Review in Online Classes

Thursday, March 18 | 11AM - 12PM

This session will cover the design principles for peer reviewed assignments, as well as an orientation to navigating, building, and grading assessments with peer review.

Facilitators: Helen DeWaard and Tara Rogic




Learning Design Studio

  • Wednesday, March 24 | 11AM-12PM
  • Thursday, March 25 | 11AM-12PM
  • Friday, March 26 | 11AM-12PM

This session will cover time-tested strategies for improving the student experience in digital learning spaces, and will empower you with resources to meet your students' needs. We've offered 3 dates for more flexibility – we look forward to providing you with 1-on-1 support!

Facilitators: Faeyza Mufti & Simone Hausknecht




Open Pedagogies, Practices and Resources

Wednesday, March 24 | 1PM - 2PM

This event will focus on ways to embed open scholarship into your own practice, including the creation of open resources, implementation of existing open resources, or creating open assignments where students contribute to global understanding of their topic.

Facilitators: Ian Linkletter and Helen DeWaard



Viewpoints: Cameras on, cameras off?

Thursday, March 25 | 1PM - 2PM

Our first event in our new Viewpoints series – “Cameras on, cameras off” – explores the issue of whether students, staff, faculty and others should be required to have their cameras on during synchronous sessions, or have the option to turn them off and remain unseen. At first glance, it may appear to be a binary issue, but upon closer inspection we see the complexities when delving into issues such as equity, student engagement, cognitive load, cultural considerations, and connecting to others.

Topic: Cameras on, cameras off?

Panelists:

Dr. André Mazawi, Professor, EDST

Olabanji (Banji) Onipede, MA student

Moderator:

Simone Hausknecht, Learning Designer, ETS

Teaching Online: UBC Instructors Share Their Experiences

Wednesday, April 7 | 1PM - 2PM

In this workshop, participants will learn about some essential online teaching practices. We will be integrating the recommendations and suggestions of some of our very own UBC instructors (through the power of video) to help reflect upon our personal challenges and areas of growth in online teaching.

Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Meghan McMillen



Transitioning from Collaborate Ultra to Zoom

Wednesday, April 14 | 1PM - 2PM

UBC has announced that Collaborate Ultra will be discontinued at the end of May 2021. If you have been using Collaborate Ultra for your courses, you will need to migrate to using another web conferencing platform such as Zoom.

This workshop will help you manage this change – you will learn how to integrate Zoom with Canvas and gain familiarity with how Zoom functions in Canvas.

Facilitators: Ian Linkletter + Arshiya Malik



Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom: Traditional Practices and New Challenges

Viewpoints Discussion Series

Wednesday, April 21 | 1PM - 2PM

This session will focus on academic integrity in the online classroom. Within a classroom, student accountability and monitoring can be important. Traditionally, this may have been through taking attendance, monitoring in exams, checking in on student conversations. In the online classroom, this can be complicated – some instructors have opted to use proctoring services, alternative assessments, analytics, or a reconceptualization on what needs to be monitored in the classroom. What are your thoughts on academic integrity in the online learning environment?

Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom: Traditional Practices and New Challenges

Panelists:

Dr. Shawna Faber, Associate Professor of Teaching, ECPS

Louai Rahal, PhD Student

Moderator:

Meghan McMillen, Learning Designer, ETS

Alternative and Authentic Assessments

Monday, May 17 | 2PM - 3PM

This session is part of the Celebrate Learning Week events, offered by Learning Designers at the ETS unit within the Faculty of Education.

UBC has shaped, and is continuing to shape, the future of assessments and assignments through alternative and authentic formats. This session is an exploration of alternative and authentic assessments and their place in online learning.

Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Meghan McMillen, Simone Hausknecht



Managing Classroom Culture and Community in Online Learning

Viewpoints Discussion Series

Thursday, May 20 | 3:30PM – 4:30PM

Classroom management and building a respectful community culture in a virtual environment can be approached in different ways. Some may feel there is no need to manage the online environment, others find it harder with the many tools of distraction and options for private conversations, while others find new ways to oversee the learning community. Come share your viewpoints on building a respectful classroom community and managing how the classroom looks, feels, and sounds when teaching online and within digitally-enabled learning spaces.

Panelists:

Dr. Nancy Perry, Professor, ECPS

Steven Secord, Instructor, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Orillia, Ontario

Justine Johal, Vice principal Hyland Elementary in the Surrey School District (UBC BEd’15 and Masters student)

Moderators:

Helen DeWaard, Learning Designer, ETS

Yvonne Dawydiak, Manager, Learning Design, Teacher Education