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  • Practical Learning: Anthropology, Sociology, and Urban Ethnography

      In this course, practical learning is about reclaiming that broad set of skills we need as humans...

  • Practical Learning: Designing Sound and Emerging Technology

      Practical learning for me is engaging in the practice of applying craft, technique and skill to projects...

  • Collaborative and Community-Based Experiential Learning

      Disaster Studies is an evolving field involving a lot of multidisciplinary collaboration and knowledge translation, and inherently...

  • Practical Learning: Experiencing Real-World Dynamics with Community Partners

      I am a strong believer in the concept that a liberal arts education makes for a better...

  • Practical Learning: Hands-on Preparation for Careers in Writing

      In my teaching, practical learning is less discussion around abstract theory, and engaged with more concrete elements....

  • Practical Learning: Engaging Community

      Students are interested in applying economic research in a way that mirrors potential career paths. Community engaged...

  • Practical Learning: Alumni Interviews

      I think that the students have this very linear idea of what a career looks like, and...

  • Practical Learning: Information Curation for a Public-Facing Website

      The learning objective is to have students curate real-world information relevant to public policy. The skill they...

  • Practical Learning: Bringing Alumni Expertise into the Classroom

    The idea is to connect students directly with alumni from a whole range of different working situations and...

  • Collaborative Note Taking for Language Classes

      Imagine this document more like a live class. A 50-minute class laid out on a collaborative document....

  • Facilitating Peer-Based Learning Through Collaborative Translation

      Through this three-step activity process, my students have really engaged and demonstrated a sensitivity to the text....

  • Peer – Learning Projects

      I was inspired by working with students in group office hours, and observing them collaborating and explaining...

  • Blending Classes With Creative Student Work

      Writers don’t complete quizzes. They write. They read. They reflect about what they’re doing. They discuss what...

  • “A Teaching Manifesto on the Assembly:” Co-facilitating Collaborative, Participatory Learning in SPAN 280: Revolution!

      It is important to create a safe classroom environment where students can debate big ideas about revolution...

  • Designing for Accessibility: An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning

    On This Page   Providing students with flexibility, so that no one falls behind or gets left behind....

  • Blending Large Online Lectures: Learning Activities to Encourage Active Student Participation

      Incorporating active participation techniques and the assessment components that go with them help to broaden the students'...

  • Silvia Bartolic in SOCI and M. Emrul Hasan in VSE find alternative exam strategies for COVID-19

    Watch the webinar to learn about remote assessment options, with input from Arts ISIT and Arts Advising.

  • Luisa Canuto in Italian uses ePortfolios

    ePortfolios can respond to the quest for developing different language skills, supporting learners’ thinking about their language learning...

  • Marina Milner-Bolotin in Education uses CLAS to support teacher-candidates

    I have used CLAS in two different courses: in ETEC 533 – an online graduate course in the...

  • Misuzu Kazama in Asian Studies uses CLAS for language learning

    Misuzu Kazama taught this 3rd year Japanese course (Advanced Modern Japanese – Reading and Writing II) for the...

  • Siobhan McPhee in Geography uses ePortfolios

    It’s exciting for the students to be able to present their findings to an actual audience with ePortfolios,...

  • TLEF snapshot: Helping to teach academic integrity

    "...students having gone through this revised curriculum have a more sophisticated understanding of what it means to be...

  • TLEF snapshot: First-year Arts students learn with legal nonprofit

    "...learning is going to be enriched in this way that’s really practical, but also hopefully will teach them...

  • Michael Griffin in Classics & Philosophy uses ePortfolios

    I think some of the really good ePortfolios do something we’re not expecting at all. --Michael Griffin, Associate...

  • Loch Brown in Geography uses ePortfolios

      By looking at the work they've done and the new work they're doing, they can begin to...

  • John Paul Catungal in GRSJ integrates blogs and Google Maps for students to contribute to an interactive project

      I wanted students to be able to apply what they were learning to the local context within...

  • Jenny Peterson in Political Science uses active learning to enrich student engagement with course material

      Show them simple ways in which they can directly participate and have a say in their learning...

  • Catherine Rawn in Psychology uses peer assessments to encourage peer-based learning

      The more we move towards peer anything, the university is going to have to collectively rethink the...

  • Michael Griffin in Philosophy investigates pedagogies that support the growth of citizenship skills

      We narrowed down “citizenship skill” into its constructs of perspective taking, cognitive empathy, intercultural understanding, and the...

  • Allen Sens and Matt Yedlin Bridge Arts and Science to Explore Nuclear Arms Control

    Interdisciplinarity is what we need more of in the university…more connection between different faculties and different ways of...

  • Edward Slingerland in Asian Studies shares his MOOC experience

    I can lead the 30-some students in more intimate discussion sections, engaging with the course readings, fostering debate...

  • Allen Sens and Matt Yedlin Tackle Nuclear Warfare

    "Is nuclear war inevitable? Can nuclear weapons be abolished? And how do we know when countries are developing...

  • Christina Hendricks in Philosophy uses blogs as a course site to share student work

      The work students do in my courses can also be very valuable to others who want to...

  • Christina Hendricks uses Lecture Capture to allow Arts One Students to Review Lectures

      We have found numerous positive benefits from using lecture capture and sharing our videos with many people...

  • Qian Wang in Asian Studies incorporates student produced video

      Students felt these videos are more interesting than the textbook videos and are a great source of...

  • Alfredo Ferreira in Vantage College uses CLAS for linking language in math practice

    Videos of instructors solving mathematical problems on CLAS were annotated by students, allowing them to build the link...

  • Tina Loo in History uses Wikipedia for student projects

      ...the value of the Wikipedia assignment lies in giving students first hand experience in constructing knowledge. Writing...

  • Janice Stewart in GRSJ uses UBC Wiki

      Students participate in an open and collaborative community learning project that permits participants’ active involvement in research-intensive...

  • Dr. Jon-Beasley Murray in Latin American Studies uses Wikipedia for student projects

  • Catherine Rawn in Psychology uses iClickers

      Questions give us a point of discussion that regularly takes us all deeper than just a surface...

  • Eric Meyers in the iSchool@UBC uses video to enhance learning

      An increasingly common challenge for post-secondary institutions is the development of in-house expertise in the creation of...

  • Laurie McNeill from English and Arts Studies uses scholarly blogs

      Learning to blog at the same time that students are learning academic writing also reinforces the idea...

  • Aim Sinpeng in Political Science uses blogs for online engagement

    Blogging is a great way to increase student interaction with the class materials as well as current events....

  • Evan Ashworth in Linguistics creates videos for flexible learning

      Students are asked to watch these videos prior to coming to class, so that class time can...

  • Nisha Malhotra in Economics uses tutorial videos for concept review

      Students now have time to analyze what is happening around the world using the economic concepts and...

  • Robert Taylor uses CLAS in Conducting and Symphony Orchestra Courses

    CLAS is a fantastic way for students to review their own work and for professors to give highly...

  • Fred Cutler from Political Science uses Learning Catalytics for Peer Instruction

      Learning Catalytics can group students based on their responses: it delivers a message to each student telling...

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