- Original Photo by Zack Lee
May is very busy time at OLT and here at UBC. After the flurry of exam period in April comes several days of marking. The summer session also started three weeks ago for both on-campus and distance education classes. At the same time, commencement ceremonies are closing another chapter for many students’ lives.
This month, we brought you stories that highlight the diversity of students who take distance learning and the innovative ways we can use technology in teaching and learning.
Kelsey interviewed Tristan Banwell a recent graduate from the UBC Faculty of Forestery who is currently taking two forestry courses via distance education. Read his story on how the flexibility of distance education courses is helping him to be a Registered Professional Forester and be together with his wife who lives in Washington State. Read more…
Kelsey also brought you the story of Cheryl Kinkaid who works in the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Applied Science here at UBC. She has taken five distance education courses and is currently taking HIST 104: Topics in World History: Cultures in Contact. Read how she’s applying her distance courses getting a bachelor’s degree while still working full-time. Read more…
Our new student Tina Sha, covered the latest Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Speaker Series called the 2010 Horizon Report Unplugged. The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium‘s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. Rob Peregoodoff from the Sauder School of Business gave us an overview of what the future might hold when it comes to teaching and learning with technology. Read more…
In this recent Learning Technology Institute (LTI) session, five instructors from five different disciplines shared how they have been using technology to support their teaching. From pulling in external resources into their WebCT Vista course, to online collaboration and communication, to narrated solution videos, learn about the variety of ways others have integrated technology in their classes. We’ve collected as many of the resources and presentations discussed during the session. Read more…
Terry shares with us what happened during this TLT session with Negin Mirriahi, from Arts ISIT, and Lyana Patrick, from the Division of Aboriginal People’s Health. They discussed their experience in designing an online course called “Is the Past Present? International Indigenous Experiences of Colonization”. Find out how they collaborated with the University of Melbourne to develop this informative and interactive learning experience about the history of colonization in Canada and Australia. Read more…
We’ll continue to bring you new stories of teaching and learning with technology at UBC in the coming months. If you have ideas on projects and people that we can profile, please feel free to drop us a line.
