What do electric mice dream of at night? UBC Open House, of course!
If you weren’t there you missed a great event. The 4th Annual e-Learning Open House was the best attended ever – we ran out of nametags and programs, but not enthusiasm!
Co-hosted by the Office of Learning Technology and UBC e-Strategy, it’s really become a major ‘must see’ on the university’s spring calendar.
We’ll have a complete Open House 07 photo gallery in the April issue, but in the meantime here are a few snaps from the 8th of March:
Ian Cavers (Computer Science), Michelle Lamberson (OLT) & Susanne Hille (IT)
at the March 8th Open House
The e-Learning crowd at Open House
Gabrial Wong’s String Trio supplied classical music
The Door Prize – a Western Digital Passport Portable 120 GB External Hard Drive – went to Dave Lampron, Manager of MedIT at the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Presenters from seven UBC Faculties explored a wide range of interesting e-Learning topics, including:
- Open Source Learning Management Systems: The Sakai Edge
- Virtual Communities
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) at UBC
- Using Technology to Make Large Introductory Science Classes Smaller
- Media Rich Content: To and From our Students
- Future Mapping: The Evolution of Mixed-mode Learning
- Teaching Portfolios & Course Portfolios: What and Why?
- ROLS: Support for New Online Learners
- Showcase of UBC Online Courses
- Faculty of Medicine: Use of Learning Technologies
- iPeer Software: Online Self and Peer Evaluation
- Team-based Learning: An Exciting Alternative to Lecturing in Large Classes
- LEAP: Partnerships and Possibilities
- The PEPI Project: Academic Podcasting that Goes Beyond the Lecture Hall
Illustrating how Sakai, an open-source learning management system, can be integrated into the atmosphere of advanced learning through educational technologies, and how it acts as complement to WebCT.
Showing how virtual communities can be used effectively to create meaningful and collaborative learning environments.
Showcasing the workflow and technology involved in developing an online submission for UBC theses and dissertations, and an online repository that allows free electronic access.
Outlining three different kinds of technological tools used effectively in introductory Physics courses at UBC and their effects on student academic achievement.
Showcasing the use of innovative technology to make learning content appealing and media rich, but at the same time accessible to all learners.
Future Mapping is a mixed-mode career development program. Come and ask about the lessons learned and the new challenges that arose from this project.
Teaching and course portfolios are powerful tools that can be used to demonstrate sound teaching principles – and the student learning that results from them. Portfolios serve as creative forms for summarizing and developing strong teaching techniques.
The Rehabilitation Online Learners Support (ROLS) website was created to reduce the need for technological assistance in the first week of courses for new, mature learners in the 100% online UBC-McMaster Graduate Certificate in Rehabilitation and Master of Rehabilitation Science programs.
Focusing on overall course design process (from planning to delivery), OLT web designers/programmers will discuss the use of technology and design to deliver information to students via the web.
This presentation explores the use of existing technologies in the Faculty of Medicine and hopeful future initiatives such as mobile learning and social software solutions in the education framework.
Developed at UBC, this open-source application allows instructors to easily develop and deliver rubric-based peer evaluations to students online.
Come and experience team-based learning, a methodology that addresses many issues that we encounter when using different styles of group and team work.
LEAP is an interactive site, developed and supported by students for students and devoted to providing a coordinated, peer-based, easy-to-access collection of resources designed to enhance academic success.
The PEPI project aims to create a new kind of academic podcast: a podcast that is student-generated and exists outside a lecture hall.
So the UBC e-Learning Open House is over for another year! A big thank you to all the presenters and volunteers and participants.
Article courtesy of UBC’s e-Strategy Update.