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Improving Quality and Efficiency in Teaching Through the Open Learning...

Ensuring the quality of teaching and learning has long been a priority in higher education. A particular challenge is to provide a rich, personalized learning experience for students in high enrolment...

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Distance and Blended Learning Showcase

On October 27th, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology organized a Distance and Blended Learning Showcase in the Lillooet Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of Celebrate...

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Challenging the Notion of Higher Education

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein On January 14, fifty UBC faculty and staff members gathered to learn about emerging best practices...

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Exploring Variations on a Theme of Highly Effective Teaching

On May 24, the 2011 CTLT Institute kicked-off with an opening session entitled Exploring Variations on a Theme of Highly Effective Teaching. During this interactive session, Dan Pratt provided an...

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Be a Part of UBC’s Future: Name Our New Learning Management System!

The University of British Columbia will transition from WebCT Vista to a new Learning Management System (LMS) in 2012. Students use WebCT Vista in concert with their campus-based and distance courses...

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Connect: UBC’s New Learning Management System

UBC’s community-wide Name the New LMS Contest has wrapped up after receiving more than 600 submissions. We’re pleased to announce that the New LMS has been named Connect. This new name reflects the...

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Let’s Celebrate Learning

Celebrate Learning Week turns the lens on those “aha” moments when theory becomes practice and ideas blossom into action. Now in its fifth year, the October 27 – November 4 celebration highlights and...

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From Student to Teacher: Becoming a TA

As part of the September Graduate Student Refresher Series, CTLT hosted the workshop From Student to Teacher: Becoming a TA. Graduate students and Teaching Assistants (TA) themselves, Natalie Baloy and...

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Here: Valuing, Recognizing and Acknowledging Place

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) is once again hosting the event series Classroom Climate: Aboriginal Initiatives, offering participants the opportunity to challenge what they...

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Spaces for Teaching, Spaces for Learning

The Spaces for Teaching, Spaces for Learning workshop, a part of Celebrate Learning Week, presented three interrelated topics that touched on the expanding range of spaces for teaching and learning....

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Join us for the CTLT Summer Institute!

Registration is now open for CTLT’s Summer Institute: August 20-22, and September 3-6, 2013! Join us for a series of workshops with the goal to help both new and developing faculty members and graduate...

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Celebrate Learning at UBC!

The 6th annual UBC Celebrate Learning Week is a week-long showcase to celebrate teaching and learning opportunities available to our students, faculty, staff, and community at UBC Vancouver. Events...

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Truth and Reconciliation at UBC: Continuing the Conversation

Victory Through Honour totem pole, in front of Brock HallIn 2014, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) will continue to work on projects that resulted from the Truth and...

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Truth and Reconciliation at UBC: Engaging Biology Students with the TRC

On September 18, 2013, UBC took the extraordinary step of suspending almost all classes on its Vancouver campus to give students, faculty, and other members of the UBC community the opportunity to more...

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Lynda.com Pilot at UBC: Only 8 Weeks of Unlimited Online Learning Access Left

Enjoy free unlimited access to lynda.com through the UBC-sponsored employer subscription. The lynda.com pilot period, available to all UBC faculty and staff, ends on March 31, 2014. Learn more and...

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CTLT Institute 2014 – Call for Contributions

Planning is already under way for the 2014 CTLT Institute, and we’re looking for your help. This year we are hoping to have a diverse group of presenters and we would like to invite members of the UBC...

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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: Using Digital Media to Teach Science

Garry Hoban, speaking at a recent Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology session Education Technology Seminar: Engaging Students in Representing, Explaining & Communicating Content, observed...

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həm̓ləsəm̓ and q̓ələχən House Films Released!

The films həm̓ləsəm̓ House at UBC and q̓ələχən House at UBC are part of a series being developed at Aboriginal Initiatives in UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) to educate UBC...

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Truth and Reconciliation at UBC: Reconciliation and LFS 350

On September 18, 2013, UBC took the extraordinary step of suspending nearly all classes on its Vancouver campus. The purpose was to give students, faculty, and other members of the UBC community an...

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UBC and Tra Vinh University: Developing a Relationship through the...

Since 2008, UBC has partnered with Uniterra, an international volunteer agency, to send six UBC staff members from various departments and units to volunteer in the Global South. Participants spend...

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