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.
What is ‘blended learning’ and how can it benefit post-secondary students?
Blended learning combines face-to-face and virtual instruction through the use of online learning technologies. Post-secondary students attend lectures in real-time, either virtually or in person, and this is accompanied by online learning activities completed outside of class time.
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: Anthropology, Sociology, and Urban Ethnography
In Urban Ethnographic Field School, students discuss readings and ideas that they are working on, comparing and contrasting experiences of people doing ethnographies all over the world, how they write and what kind of techniques they use, and how they take field notes.
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.
Support for integrating practical learning and connections with alumni in the classroom
Connect Arts’ disciplinary learning to students’ futures—help students see how classroom learning can be applied in other contexts, including workplaces and the community.
Practical Learning: Experiencing Real-World Dynamics with Community Partners
Explore how students are partnered with on-campus groups or community partners to build relationships and enhance their learning.