Enhance teaching using emerging and established digital tools that support and transform educational practices.
Technology in teaching allows instructors to deliver rich learning experiences that would traditionally not be possible in the classroom. It also allows for content to be presented in various mediums to offer students different pathways of learning. The deliberate and planned use of technology can also help instructors save time with administrative tasks involved in teaching.
Featured Arts resources
How UBC Arts is reshaping teaching and learning in the age of AI
Laurie McNeill and Andrew Owen discuss how UBC Arts is reshaping teaching, writing, assessment, AI literacy, and academic integrity in response to generative AI and student concerns.
We’re only Human? Educative Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence, Academic Integrity, and Writing in the Faculty of Arts
Laurie McNeill (English) and Andrew Owen (Political Science) brought together educators and learning technology specialists to develop, test, and share teaching materials that help instructors address generative AI in writing-intensive courses.
The Online Course Enhanced Learning Intelligent Assistant (OCELIA)
Siobhán Wittig McPhee (Geography) and team are developing an AI-powered learning assistant to help students engage with dense academic texts and arrive at tutorials prepared and confident.
Subtopics
Generative AI
Generative AI in education is both an opportunity and a challenge. It has allowed for personalized learning as students can prompt it with their current understanding, and it can help automate certain tasks for instructors. However, it has raised academic integrity concerns with students submitting work generated from generative AI.
Virtual and augmented reality
Virtual and augmented reality allows students to access places and interact with material that they normally would not have access to.
Digital literacy
Digital literacy is the ability to use digital technology ethically. This skill helps to optimize the use of certain digital tools, evaluate online information, and think critically about our digital environment.
Interactive digital tools
Interactive digital tools are software that requires students to actively engage with the content in order for the content to progress further.
UBC-supported learning technology
UBC has a catalogue of licensed learning technology available to instructors. These learning technologies adhere to privacy laws and often are accessed using UBC’s campus-wide login. Since access to these tools is university-wide, it provides equitable access to learning tools.
Non-UBC learning technology
Although there are many learning technologies that are supported at UBC, there are certain learning activities that cannot be supported by those tools and require the use of external learning technology. It is important for instructors to exercise caution when using these tools to ensure that student privacy and security are not compromised.
Multimedia
Thoughtful use of multimedia (audio and/or video) in learning allows for content to be more engaging and can help students retain the content of the course by being exposed to content in different mediums.
