End of Winter Session Social & Reflection for Arts Instructors
Arts instructors gathered in person to reflect on teaching practices, student engagement, and the evolving classroom.
Practical Learning: Applying Research Methods to Career Development
Learn how Dr. Catherine Rawn encourages PSYC 217 students to apply research methods to their career development.
Practical Learning: Interviewing and Digital Storytelling
Students in select fourth-year History courses gain hands-on experience in interviewing and digital storytelling.
Practical Learning: Historical Research Methods
In Historical Research Methods, students conduct hands-on archival research to consider the methodological challenges with state archiving and large-scale recordkeeping.
Strategies for collaborative learning
Collaborative learning flips the script on traditional, transmission-based approaches to post-secondary education, turning classrooms into dynamic spaces for interactive problem solving, more engaging discussions, and the co-creation of knowledge.
Reading Circles: Teaching Students to Critically Engage with Research Articles through Collaborative Writing
Discover how Dr. Laura Baumvol, lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, applied a learning circle activity to encourage student participation in academic writing and scholarly discourse through interactions with their peers.
Creative Student Projects Using Collaborative Learning
Discover how ENGL 243: Speculative Fiction students worked together to construct a synthetic human based on literary and cultural representations of synthetic humans in plausible near-future settings.
Practical Learning: Designing Sound and Emerging Technology
In THTR 308, a Sound Design course, students learn about different considerations when it comes to the design of sound for live or virtual productions.
Students gain applied understanding of course concepts through collaboration with non-profit organizations
Katherine Lyon shares a SOCI 290 community-engaged learning assignment, developed with Tamara Baldwin and Gaylean Davies, integrating disaster studies, nonprofit interviews, collaborative learning, knowledge translation, and peer assessment.
Guide to peer review
Explore this guide to learn about the benefits peer review brings to student learning, how to design peer review activities, and what strategies you can incorporate to make it a successful learning activity.