The University of British Columbia

Blackboard Collaborate Implementation Planning Meeting is to help us maximize the impact of our Blackboard Collaborate deployment by engaging in meaningful cross-institution planning activities.

Learn about an open-source lecture capture tool and how lecture recoding can enhance student learning. Presented by Dr. Oliver Vornberger, University of Osnabrueck, Computer Science and Mathematics

Join us for a discussion about learning and mobile devices. Your feedback will help us to determine what we need to do to ensure that some of our project sites are designed the way you use them.

Come and review our student toolkits: http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/student-toolkits/. Test out a toolkit, complete an online survey and share your feedback with us about your experience with it.

Come and hear how instructors experienced the move from WebCT Vista to Connect in the recent LMS Pilot.

Explore your own teaching stories, reflect on where you have been, where you are going, and who you hope to become.

In this session, we will look at the diverse expectations, backgrounds, demographics and experiences of UBC students and together examine the implications for teaching.

In this workshop, we will explore ways in which novelty space might be reduced and develop ideas around a field trip to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum with our respective classes.

This session will gather a number of practitioners who have embraced openness for a variety of motives.

In this session we will explore the practice of student peer review (also referred to as peer evaluation or peer assessment) and how this practice might extend learning in your unique classroom contex

This session gives you an overview of our experience in facilitating a sequenced, progressive path for students in the lower level undergraduate curriculum in Political Science.

In this workshop, we will explore ways of writing responses that are helpful for you and your students.

The presenters will show how a building comes alive with videos, images, and text through the use of the mobile app Layar.

This interactive workshop will provide an overview of innovative approaches to teaching and learning with web tools through focused group discussions.

In this very hands-on workshop - come experience what the Team-Based Learning (TBL) methodology is all about!