Workshops & Events

Workshops to support teaching and learning online

Join us for virtual workshops that will introduce you to our supported learning technologies and learning design principles.

Find uniquely tailored support to help you adapt your course for the online environment and prepare you for teaching online. Our workshops are especially for instructors and staff in the Faculty of Education.

View our Events Calendar or see our full listings, below.

Podcast Creation Essentials: How to Leverage Podcasting in Education

January & February 2025

Join us at LDDI’s Studio B Discovery Lab for an insightful exploration of podcasting in education. Learn about the impactful role of podcasts in teaching and learning, including benefits such as increased engagement, as well as important considerations for educators looking to integrate podcasts into their curriculums.

Discover cutting-edge tools like Descript for easy editing and Spotify for hosting and analytics, enhancing your podcast production. We’ll also cover microphone selection and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve audio quality and ensure a professional sound.

This presentation will also provide practical strategies for podcast success, including structuring your content effectively, preparing thoughtful questions, and employing storytelling techniques to maximize impact.

How It Works: This presentation is available on demand as a field trip experience at Studio B Discovery Lab. Faculty of Education instructors can book a session and bring their students for an engaging, hands-on learning opportunity. Faculty of Education instructors, faculty, and staff are also welcome to book a visit to experience the presentation individually or with a group.

For booking contact us at lddi.educ@ubc.ca

Location: Studio B Discovery Lab – Scarfe 1009

Facilitators: LDDI Team

Creativity Challenge: Imagining Education

Submissions close April 1, 2025

This challenge invites instructors, staff and students in the Faculty of Education to share their creative visions of education. To participate, create an image reflecting on the future of education, diversity in education, educational spaces, or a topic of your choice related to education. Sketch, doodle, take a photograph, create a digital design, generate an image using artificial intelligence (AI) — the choice is yours! The images will be posted on Instagram for voting and the winners will be announced mid April.

Creativity, Play & Spontaneity for Educators

Tuesday, April 1 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Being creative and integrating play into university teaching can feel like too much work, chaotic, and even inappropriate: after all, what’s so playful about teaching Dewey, Deleuze, or Derrida? And, where is there even space in the curriculum?

Yet, not everything in teaching needs to be preplanned, prepped, predicted and predictable. Spontaneity can further safety in the classroom. And play in teaching can even be a way of challenging the neoliberal and colonial structures in which we work.

In this interactive, participatory workshop, Erica Mohan and Jude Walker (EDST) will show how creativity, play and spontaneity is an attitude we can adopt in our teaching rather than something to add onto our already packed syllabi. They will share their own experiences and introduce participants to activities they have used in their classes, from games to role-plays to improv and artistic playful engagements, all of which support risk-taking, make teaching and learning more fun and further the learning of both teachers and students.

This workshop welcomes faculty members, instructors, TAs and graduate students — anyone who teaches adults in some way — who are interested in exploring how creativity, play and spontaneity can improve their pedagogy and bring more joy to their teaching.

Presenters: Erica Mohan & Jude Walker

Location: Neville Scarfe, Room 1007

Partner with us!

LDDI is now offering workshops by request for Faculty of Education instructors, units and departments. We partner with instructors to share in-class workshops with their students on topics related to learning design or learning technology, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and more. Contact LDDI to learn more or request a workshop for your unit, department or class.

Here is some feedback from participants in a workshop on AI in the classroom:

“I loved it, very well-rounded, good knowledgeability from presenters.”

“Great presentation skills and answered student questions well.”

“It was very informative. Thank you for dispelling the AI ‘fear’ and uncertainty I had before.”

Missed a workshop?

See our Previous Workshops and Events. Many of our past workshops will list resources and links, including PowerPoint presentations, and more. Click through the previous workshops & events to explore!

We would love your feedback!

If you’ve attended one of our workshops previously, welcome back! We would love to hear about your experience via an anonymous and very short survey.

Your feedback is valuable and helps us tailor and improve sessions to suit your needs – we really appreciate you taking the time to share you feedback with us!