Creating a Culture of Care

Thursday, February 18 | 1:00PM-2:00PM

Get tips and strategies for creating e-learning environments that are welcoming, engaging, compassionate, and flexible enough to accommodate the diverse strengths and needs of our learners and faculty.

Facilitators: Dr. Roberta Borgen & Parm Gill




Alternative Assessment Practices

Wednesday, February 24 | 11:00AM-12:00PM

A look at some of the assessment practices that can be used in the online environment as alternatives to traditional assessment strategies.

Facilitators: Meghan McMillen & Arshiya Malik




Recording Lectures with Kaltura Capture and Zoom

Thursday, March 4 | 1PM – 2PM

Learn all about Kaltura – a video platform for instructors and students to record and share video content – and Zoom, and best practices in using these tools for teaching remote classes.

Facilitators: Arshiya Malik & Micah Pryne




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