Open Pedagogies, Practice, and Content
Tuesday, September 28 | 2PM – 3PM
This workshop looks at how Open Education can enhance student learning. As educators, some of our values are centered on sharing of knowledge – UBC encourages open scholarship for teaching, learning, and research. This event will focus on ways to embed open scholarship into your own practice, whether it is the creation of open resources, implementation of existing ones, or creating open assignments where students contribute to global understanding of their topic.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Ian Linkletter + Will Engle (from CTLT)
Alternative and Authentic Assessments
Tuesday, September 21 | 1PM – 2PM
A look at some of the assessment practices that can be used in the online environment as alternatives to traditional assessment strategies.
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht, Meghan McMillen
Canvas Basics for In-person Instruction
Wednesday, September 15 | 2PM – 3PM
Come join us in an interactive session where we will help you set up a basic Canvas shell and explore using the online learning environment to enhance your in-person classes. We will consider options such as entrance and exit slips, flipped classroom, online group work, creating spaces for handouts, pre-class multimedia activities.
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Ka-Yee Chu
Tech Snacks
- Wednesday, August 25 | 1PM-2PM
- Thursday, August 26 | 1PM-2PM
- Friday, August 27 | 1PM-2PM
The start of a new academic year is coming up soon. Looking for additional insights and help with online teaching tools like Canvas and Kaltura? Come join us for a 1-on-1 help session.
We can help you familiarize yourself with the tools to help you and your students succeed.
Facilitators: Ian Linkletter, Ka-Yee Chu, Jasleena Raina
LD Buffet
- Wednesday, August 25 | 11AM-12PM
- Thursday, August 26 | 11AM-12PM
- Friday, August 27 | 11AM-12PM
Interested in chatting about your course design strategies? Looking for additional insights and help? Come to our LD Buffet meeting for a 1-on-1 consultation.
We will walk you through some of the time-tested strategies for improving the student experience in digital learning spaces and empower you with resources to meet your student needs!
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht
Beyond Canvas: Open Pedagogies, Open Content, Open Practice
Wednesday, August 11 | 1pm – 2pm
This workshop looks at how Open Education can enhance student learning. As educators, some of our values are centered on sharing of knowledge – UBC encourages open scholarship for teaching, learning, and research.
This event will focus on ways to embed open scholarship into your own practice, whether it is the creation of open resources, implementation of existing ones, or creating open assignments where students contribute to global understanding of their topic.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Ian Linkletter
Course Design: Beyond Text and Lecture Using Multimedia to Engage Learners
Thursday, July 29 | 1pm – 2:30pm
During this session you will explore strategies and tools to design online and blended courses that go beyond text and lecture-based content, learning activities and assessments. We will look at some samples which model alignment with UDL frameworks, founded in learning science and are proven ways to engage learners. In addition to showcasing samples, a several tools will be demo’ed and there will be a hands on component where you can try out some of the tools such as Padlet and H5P.
Facilitators: Parm Gill, Shur Lim
Beyond Canvas: Peer Review
Wednesday, July 28 | 1pm – 2pm
Looking for new ways to integrate peer review into your online course assessment practices? Join us and learn about why peer review and peer feedback can impact student learning in online courses.
We’ll examine three phases of the peer review process:
Create – student submissions
Review – peer feedback
Reflect – review and reflect on given feedback
This session covered the design principles for peer reviewed assignments, as well as an orientation to navigating, building, and grading assessments with peer review tools.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Shur Lim, Tasnim Al-Obaidi
Beyond Canvas: Collaborative Spaces
Tuesday, July 20 | 1pm – 2pm
This interactive workshop explores two collaborative spaces (Etherpad and Padlet). Participants will learn and interact with some of the features and explore possibilities for incorporating these tools into their own teaching and learning environments.
Facilitators: Tara Rogic, Simone Hausknecht
Beyond Canvas: Alternative Assessment
Tuesday, July 13 | 1pm – 2pm
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