Learning Design Buffet
- Tuesday, November 2 | 1PM-2PM
- Wednesday, November 3 | 1PM-2PM
- Thursday, November 4 | 1PM-2PM
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: Simone Hausknecht + Faeyza Mufti
Universal Design and Ally
Friday, October 29 | 1PM – 2PM
UDL, or Universal Design for Learning, is a framework to improve accessibility for all. UDL is intended to give all students an equal opportunity to succeed. In this workshop, you will learn how to apply UDL Guidelines to make improvements to your own courses. But where to start?
Ally is a tool that can be integrated in Canvas to help you begin. It helps make courses more accessible, by providing you with a report containing practical guidance and a time-saving interface for making improvements.. It also allows students to download documents in alternative formats (like audio or electronic braille). This session will explore Ally in action, and walk you through how to request it for your course.
Facilitators: Parm Gill + Ian Linkletter
Canvas: Evaluation and SpeedGrader (ELI)
Friday, October 29 | 11AM – 12PM
Learn how to grade and give feedback in Canvas. This one-hour workshop is interactive and requires pre-registration so we can prepare your activities. It is intended for instructors currently teaching using Canvas.
Using a time-saving tool called SpeedGrader, you can give students enhanced feedback using document annotation, media comments, and rubrics. This workshop will give you hands-on experience in using it to the benefit of you and your students.
Facilitators: Faeyza Mufti + Hazel Chongoti
Canvas Orientation (ELI)
Friday, October 22 | 11:00AM – 12:15PM
Come to this workshop for a tutorial and receive support for all your questions about setting up and teaching online with Canvas (UBC’s primary all-in-one platform for delivering online courses) and other learning technology tips and tricks.
This session will ensure that you get a chance to have your questions answered and receive support from an ETS staff member. Come ready with any questions you may have about Canvas!
Facilitator: Simone Hausknecht + Ka-Yee Chu
Teaching with Care
Thursday, October 7 | 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Do we need pedagogies and practices of caring in our teaching and learning environments? Has the pandemic heightened our need for care as we design learning with the integration of technologies?
Teaching with care requires attention and empathy (Noddings, 2012). Designing and teaching with care has become ever more pressing in the past few years, as we have increasingly used technology as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (Grey, 2020). An ethic of care is relatively new (Noddings, 1988; Held, 2006), yet teaching with care pre-dates the pandemic. Teaching with care may be perceived as a form of activism and resistance (Bali, 2015; Hooks, 1994; Noddings, 2021) – a Davidian effort against the Goliath of the higher educational monetary, accountability machine and what some educators see as a dehumanizing presence of educational technology (France, 2020). As a result of the pandemic and global crises, there is a heightened sense of urgency in designing caring communities of learners in our courses, as we model a care for the environment, care for equity and social justice, and care for mental health and well-being.
Is caring part of a moral and ethical teaching practice? Does the integration of technology interfere or enhance our ability to teach with care? Can we balance a teaching practice that is philosophically grounded in morality and an ethic of care, with the current push for accountability and rigor in teaching and learning?
Calling all Students: Communication Strategies that Work for Student Learning
Thursday, October 14 | 1PM – 2PM
In this workshop, participants explore different tools, forms of interactions, and ways to communicate with students online. Whether sending an email, writing an announcement, using discussion forums, or having a Zoom session each one creates a unique opportunity to build a relationship and offer students a way to express themselves. This session gives participants a chance to consider these multiple approaches and what each can contribute to student engagement.
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Shur Lim
An Introduction to Microsoft Teams
Tuesday, October 5 | 1PM – 2PM
This workshop is an introduction to Microsoft Teams that will demonstrate the features of the tools you will need to work in Teams. You will learn how to organize and manage teams while using the features of the program. Microsoft Teams combines video meetings, chats, file storage and sharing all in one place. Join us to see how Microsoft Teams allows people to communicate and collaborate together using cloud technology.
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen
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