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...
View ArticleDistance 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...
View ArticleChallenging 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...
View ArticleExploring 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...
View ArticleBe 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...
View ArticleConnect: 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...
View ArticleLet’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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleHere: 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...
View ArticleSpaces 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....
View ArticleJoin 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...
View ArticleCelebrate 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...
View ArticleTruth 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...
View ArticleTruth 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...
View ArticleLynda.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...
View ArticleCTLT 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...
View ArticleTeaching 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...
View Articlehəm̓ləsəm̓ 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...
View ArticleTruth 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...
View ArticleUBC 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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