Lunch & Learn Resources: Course Design
Lunch & Learn Series: Mid-Course Feedback with Gail Hammond & Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on Friday, October 15, 2021 at noon. Gail Hammond & Adrian Granchelli (of LFS Learning Centre) will lead the discussion this week. This week, we will look into effective ways to collect student input in the form of Mid-Course Feedback. Mid-course feedback is a great way to get insights on […]
October 13, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Teaching in a Blended Classroom with Jerzy Zawistowski
This session will be held on Friday, September 24 at noon. Dr. Jerzy Zawistowski (Academic Director, Master of Food Science Program) will be our guest presenter this week. Despite the shift back to in-person teaching, some students have been unable to attend class, and as such, instructors have recorded or streamed their lectures. Teaching to both […]
September 23, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Rich Media Assignments with Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, September 17 at noon. Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh of the LFS Learning Centre will be leading this discussion. Have you fully explored the breadth of what students are capable of? There are innumerable options for what students can create in order to demonstrate their learning. From videos […]
September 16, 2021
Contingency Planning for Course Delivery with Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on September 10, 2021 at noon. Adrian Granchelli of LFS Learning Centre will lead the session this week. “If plan A doesn’t work, just remember there are 25 more letters.” This school year is filled with uncertainties, and we may need to shift our teaching strategies overnight. Learn about methods […]
September 7, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Perfecting your Course Syllabus with Gabriel Smith
This session will be held on Friday, September 3 at noon. Gabriel Smith of LFS Learning Centre will be leading this session. Are you working on your course syllabus right now? In this week’s Lunch & Learn, join the LFS Learning Centre for a discussion on syllabi, including the following topics: Design best practices UBC […]
August 31, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Ensuring exams are effective tools for learning and assessment by Candice Rideout and Gregory Paradis
This session will be held on Friday, August 13, 2021 at noon. Candice Rideout (Associate Prof. of Teaching, LFS) and Gregory Paradis (Assistant Prof., Forest Resources Management, Forestry) will be our guest presenters this week. The recent period of remote teaching has posed many pedagogical challenges, including how (or if) we should administer midterms and […]
August 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: OnTask – a tool to provide personalized feedback to increase student engagement & motivation with Sandra Brown
This session will be held on Friday, August 6, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown (Asst. Professor of Teaching, LFS) will be our guest presenter for this week. With increasing class size and student diversity, providing personalized feedback to students can be a challenge. Yet we know from nudge theory that if we provide our students […]
August 3, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Student reflections on the year of remote learning by Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on Friday, July 30, 2021 at noon. The Learning Centre conducted focus groups in June, 2021 to ask students about their experience of remote learning what students want moving forward. In this Lunch & Learn we will discuss the three topics including social atmosphere, flexibility, and academic fairness. The focus […]
July 30, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: LFS Canvas Template with Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on Friday, July 23, 2021 at noon. The LFS Canvas Template aims to create a coherent student experience across the whole Faculty of Land and Food Systems. This week we will take a look at everything the LFS Canvas Template provides and what you may want to continue using when […]
July 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Creating Interactive Content with Adrian Granchelli and Ian Linkletter
This session will be held on Friday, June 18, 2021 at noon. Adrian Granchelli of LFS Learning Centre and Ian Linkletter of Educational Technology Support (Faculty of Education) will be our presenters for this week. Interactive content can be very engaging for students and can allow for better understanding of content. In this session we […]
June 17, 2021