Congratulations to the 12 Arts projects that were awarded the 2026/27 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)!
Created to enrich student learning, the TLEF supports projects that bring innovative educational enhancements to UBC.
In the Faculty of Arts, three Large TLEF projects and nine Small TLEF projects received funding, including five continuing projects and seven new proposals. This year’s Arts projects address salient topics including the role of AI in Arts education, inclusive teaching practices, and forward-thinking pedagogical approaches.
Large TLEF Arts projects
- We’re only Human? Educative Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence, Academic Integrity, and Writing in the Faculty of Arts
Principal investigators: Laurie McNeill (English), Andrew Owen (Political Science) - Online Course Enhanced Learning Intelligent Assistant (OCELIA) – Scaffolding Academic Reading and Course Material
Principal investigator: Siobhán Wittig McPhee (Geography) - Unpacking the Black Box: Critical AI Literacies for Arts Education
Principal investigator: Laura Nelson (Geography)
Small TLEF Arts projects
- Innovating the iSchool Classroom: Piloting a hybrid model for Indigenizing graduate pedagogy
Principal investigator: Elizabeth Shaffer (iSchool) - Development Project for Online Multi-modal FNEL Learning Resources: Musqueam Language Program (FNEL) & Arts ISIT (Arts Digital Collections)
Principal investigator: Patricia A. Shaw (FNEL)
- Centering Queer Voices: Story-Driven Learning in Psychology
Principal investigator: David King (Psychology) - Creating Flexibility for Diverse Learners through the Development and Implementation of a Hybrid and an Online Offering of Family Context of Human Development (FMST 210)
Principal investigator: Anna Dawczyk (Sociology) - Enhancing ECON 101 with Blended Modules, Lightboard Videos, and Small-Group Applications
Principal investigator: Michael Barber (Economics) - Ethnographic Vignette Printer: Generating engagement, collaboration, and reflection in writing anthropology and beyond
Principal investigator: Amirpouyan Shiva (Anthropology) - Hands-on experiential learning and fieldwork in public art and sustainable textiles based in Fabric of Campus Fibre Garden
Principal investigator: Germaine Koh (AHVA) - Global Mental Health: Interdisciplinary Policy and Practice
Principal investigator: Mohamed Ibrahim (Social Work) - Reimagining the MA In Children’s Literature Program
Principal investigator: Eric Meyers (iSchool)
