Upcoming Events

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) provides free in-person and online workshops and events for UBC graduate students, instructors, faculty and staff. Never miss an upcoming event, sign up for the monthly CTLT events newsletter.

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Communicating your teaching identity—what drives you as an educator and how that shows up in your practice—can be unexpectedly challenging. Yet whether you’re preparing a dossier, applying for an award, or updating your website, being able to clearly express your approach to teaching is essential. This interactive online session explores how generative AI tools can (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Using GenAI to Articulate Your Teaching Approach"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:00 am

Facilitators

Creating accessible digital content ensures that students of all abilities can fully engage with course materials. However, many documents, particularly older, scanned, or untagged PDFs, are not compatible with screen readers and other assistive technologies.  The Centre for Workplace Accessibility is piloting SensusAccess, a tool that enables UBC faculty, staff, and students to convert print (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Transforming Materials into Accessible Formats with the SensusAccess Pilot"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Facilitators

The arrival of generative AI is not a minor disruption; it’s a constantly evolving challenge to how we assess student learning. This session is designed for instructors who are concerned about academic integrity. In the studio we will introduce the “Mitigate, Support, Elevate” framework for designing assessments resilient to AI misuse. Together we will explore this framework for assessing the (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Course Design Studio: Creating AI Resilient Assessments"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Facilitators

Are you interested in making your course materials more accessible and barrier free for all learners? Join us for an informal drop-in where you can chat with accessibility consultants, educational designers, and colleagues about accessibility. The accessibility drop-ins are for anyone who is developing course content or open educational resources (OER) and who is curious (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Accessibility Drop-Ins"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 5, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 19, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 2, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 16, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 14, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 28, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Facilitators

This ISW is online. Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying here. Application for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on March 10th at 9:00 am and closes on April 18th at 4:30 pm. For this ISW you must be registered as a Graduate Student in Winter Session Term 2 (January (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop - April 21, 25, 26, May 2, 2026 (Tues., Sat., Sun., Sat.)"

  • Online
    Date
    April 21, 2026
    Time
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    April 25, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 3:30 pm
  • Online
    Date
    April 26, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 2, 2026
    Time
    9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Inclusive Teaching: Inclusive Assessment Strategies Teaching inclusively involves supporting the success of a diverse mix of learners, with different social identities, life experiences and ways of knowing. Students will have different abilities to demonstrate their learning. This requires educators to revise assessment practices that allow for this range of diversity; not one size fits all. In (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Inclusive Teaching Studio: Assessment Strategies"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 22, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:30 am

Facilitators

These sixty minute, bi-monthly sessions – facilitated by Technologists Experts from LTIC – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights presentation which will talk (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Generative AI Studios"

  • Online
    Date
    April 22, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 6, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 20, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 3, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 17, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 1, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 15, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 29, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Facilitators

The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "WordPress & Wiki Clinic"

  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 23, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 30, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 7, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 14, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 21, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    May 28, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    June 4, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Date/Time
    Date
    June 11, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Facilitators

We welcome you to attend one of CTLT Indigenous Initiatives’ monthly Virtual Coffee Hours. They are an informal space to connect with consultants on the team and other colleagues across the university. We are always excited to hear about a project you are working on or a new resource you found, peer-to-peer sharing is highly (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Virtual Coffee Hour - 2026"

  • Online
    Date
    April 23, 2026
    Time
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 27, 2026
    Time
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 23, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 22, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Online
    Date
    August 13, 2026
    Time
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    September 10, 2026
    Time
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    September 23, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

UBC supports the Qualtrics survey tool. Qualtrics is a powerful tool that offers UBC faculty, and staff new functionality in survey creation, data analysis, and reporting. Join us for the monthly Qualtrics studio virtual workshop and drop-in session. The session is geared towards UBC faculty and staff using Qualtrics as a teaching and research tool. (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Qualtrics Studio"

  • Online
    Date
    April 27, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 26, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Facilitators

The Open UBC Working Group, which is composed of faculty, students, and staff, meets regularly to advise, communicate, and partner on open education and scholarship activities and projects happening at UBC. In addition to serving as a place of community for those interested in various areas of open scholarship, the working group develops projects and (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Open UBC Working Group"

  • Online
    Date
    April 27, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    May 25, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    June 29, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Online
    Date
    July 27, 2026
    Time
    3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Facilitators

  • Will Engle
    Strategist, Open Education Initiatives, CTLT
  • Erin Fields
    Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian, UBC Library
  • Rie Namba
    Educational Resource Developer – Open Resources

The Contract Faculty Colloquium has been convened for Contract Faculty at UBCV and UBCO for several years, and aims to bring together Contract Faculty from across campuses to showcase and share their intellectual work with other colleagues. This year’s 11th Annual Colloquium will feature papers by Contract Faculty colleagues from a range of disciplines. We (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Contract Faculty Colloquium"

  • Date/Time
    Date
    April 28, 2026
    Time
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Are you working on a media project? Planning to produce video content for your course but don’t know where to start? UBC Studios is offering a drop-in media support session where professional media specialists are available to provide answers to your questions. If you are wondering: Where do I start? What resources are available on (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "DIY Media Support Drop-In Sessions"

  • Online
    Date
    April 29, 2026
    Time
    10:00 am - 11:00 am

Teaching inclusively involves supporting the success of a diverse mix of learners, with different social identities, life experiences and ways of knowing. A key aspect of inclusive teaching is supporting student’s sense of belonging within a program of study and within a discipline. Your course syllabus is a representation of all of the thought and (more…)


Upcoming Dates - "Inclusive Teaching Studio: Inclusive Syllabus"

  • In-person
    Date
    April 29, 2026
    Time
    1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Facilitators