Empowering Pronunciation Teaching and Learning with the Use of Ultrasound Technology and Prosody Visualization
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 1:30-3:30pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Chilcotin Room (256) Description Pronunciation is an integral part of communication because it reflects speakers’ communicative competence, and affects their self-confidence and social interaction. However, pronunciation has been considered a difficult area to attend to in the classroom due […]
Student-Faculty-Community Flexible Learning Partnerships
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 1:30-3:30pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre Description Healthcare delivery is moving into communities away from hospitals. Our mission at the School of Nursing is to use flexible learning strategies to optimize this shift from acute care management to community/population health promotion and well-being. In this […]
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Fostering Inclusive Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 1:30-3:30pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room (2.22) Description Students enter the classroom with diverse motivations, academic interests, and disciplinary expectations and experiences. One challenge is creating an inclusive environment that welcomes all perspectives while ensuring activities and assessment that fits the needs of […]
Supporting Case-Based Student Writing and Logical Reasoning: Three Different Scaffolding Approaches and their Outcomes
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 10:30am-12:30pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (301) Description Solving problems using data analysis and logical reasoning is one of the primary goals of a science-based education. One evidence-based tool used to support student learning of this goal is the case-study, where students build […]
Providing Effective Feedback on Writing Assignments
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 10:30am-12:30pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room (2.22) Description This workshop introduces feedback strategies that focus on using educator time efficiently and that encourage students to both use feedback and take responsibility for the quality of their academic writing. The workshop benefits both new […]
Bringing Down Walls Between Classrooms, Online and Field Studies: A UBC Soil Science Case Study
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 9:30-10:15am Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (301) Description This presentation will review how a team of multidisciplinary faculty and staff of the Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources (VSSLR) Consortium utilized media technologies to enhance teaching and learning for soil science students at UBC. […]
Paired Teaching for Faculty Professional Development
Date & Time Monday May 2nd, 9:30-10:15am Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Chilcotin Room (256) Description Paired (or co-)teaching is an arrangement in which two faculty are collaboratively responsible for all aspects of teaching a course. Through the Harris extension to CWSEI, paired teaching is being implemented in the Departments of […]
Keynote – Brilliant: The Science of How to Get Smarter
Date & Time Thursday May 5th, 9:30-11:30am Location UBC Point Grey – Earth Sciences Building, Room 1012 Description UBC Centennial Session In this talk, Annie Murphy Paul refutes the idea that intelligence is determined by genetic inheritance or an individual’s upbringing by revealing the impact of the microenvironment, the context in which we use our […]
UBC 2050: The Future of Higher Education – Panel Discussion
Date & Time Thursday May 5th, 2:00-4:00pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Victoria Lecture Theatre (182) Description Higher education, both at UBC and more broadly, has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years. These changes have influenced everything from who pursues higher education to how faculty teach and how students […]
Tech Rovers Explore Teaching Tools
Date & Time Wednesday May 4th, 1:00-3:00pm Location UBC Point Grey – Irving Barber Learning Centre, Chilcotin Rm (256) Description Learning Technology Rovers (LTR’s) are co-op students who provide support related to learning technologies for instructors within the UBC faculties. Join the LTRs for this open house to discover how we support different learning technologies in faculties across […]