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
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
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
This is a make and take session, studio style. Bring your course syllabus or media making experiences. Be prepared to share your media making and course design ideas and questions.
The UBC learning management system (Canvas) can be described as a walled garden, where learning is secure and enclosed. But UBC has an abundance of technologies to use and integrate into your course, whether it’s online or in face-to-face places. These technologies can take you and your students safely outside of the walled learning spaces in Canvas.
When considering the course design, it’s often difficult to figure out what technologies are the best fit for student learning or how to incorporate them into the course. This session will give you time to explore technologies as you think critically about integrating new media making technologies, such as the ones listed on CTLT technologies page. Let’s peek over the Canvas walls, or even consider building a gate to step through, figuratively speaking.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Ka-Yee Chu
Viewpoints Discussion Series
Antiracism and Education
Panelists:
Dr. Bathseba Opini, Assistant Professor, EDST
Andratesha Fritzgerald, EdS, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Innovation for the East Cleveland (OH) City School Districts
Moderator:
Helen DeWaard, Learning Designer, ETS
Faeyza Mufti, Learning Design Manager, ETS
Join us for our fourth event in the Viewpoints discussion series.
This ETS Viewpoints panel discussion is a response to the call to action shared by Santa J. Ono to “work to model a different kind of community — one where we embrace difference and work to build each other up while enacting values of dignity, mutual respect and justice” and is an effort to open wider conversations about racism, while encouraging people to educate themselves on anti-racism work. It is not enough to acknowledge that racism exists and that antiracism strategies are necessary but as educators and citizens we must act. This session is grounded on the three pillars [Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Indigeneity] that are foundational to ETS and PDCE, and are reflective of the values embedded into the University strategic plans.
This session will bring diverse voices together to share viewpoints on how antiracism can be infused into course designs, where conversations can become springboards for meaningful action. As stated on the UBC Equity and Inclusion website: “Anti-racism work is not a one-time action, but a life-long commitment.”
Visit the topic page for this session on the Viewpoints website!
In this workshop, participants have explored different tools 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 gave participants a chance to consider these multiple approaches and what each can contribute to student engagement.
Facilitators: Shur Lim, Simone Hausknecht
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, Jasleena Raina
View video overview of the SpeedGrader demonstration below from the previous workshop on SpeedGrader.
A drop-in studio to get hands-on support in building your course in Canvas.
Come with your course syllabus or just a few ideas on how you plan to teach your online course, and we can work through the rest together.
Facilitators: Faeyza Mufti, Simone Hausknecht
Viewpoints Discussion Series
Managing Classroom Culture and Community in Online Learning
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)
Moderator:
Helen DeWaard, Learning Designer, ETS
Yvonne Dawydiak, Manager, Learning Design, Teacher Education
Join us for our third event in the Viewpoints discussion series.
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.
Visit the topic page for this session on the Viewpoints website!
UBC has shaped, and is continuing to shape, the future of assessments and assignments through alternative and authentic formats. This session was an exploration of alternative and authentic assessments and their place in online learning.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Meghan McMillen, Simone Hausknecht