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: Presenting current Indigenous Student Initiatives as they relate to LFS and Beyond with Joel Liman
This session will be held on Friday, June 25, 2021 at noon. Joel Liman of LFS Student Services will be our guest presenter for this week. This presentation will review some of the current statistics, campus policies, and initiatives at UBC at relating to Indigenous student recruitment and retention. There will be a lot of […]
June 23, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: The Three S’s: Students + Skills (and a bit of passion for spice) = Success with Nina von Keyserlingk
This session will be held on Friday, April 9, at noon In this session of Lunch & Learn, Professor Nina von Keyserlingk of LFS will lead a discussion on her approach to facilitating learning in the courses that she teaches in Applied Animal Biology. Her conversations will include anecdotes from her numerous conversations with her sister, Gesa […]
April 7, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: EDI, Affect, and STEM Classrooms with Will Valley
This session will be held on Friday, March 12th, 2021 at noon. Classrooms are affective spaces and our disciplines have affective cultures; STEM-related fields are no exception. Students expect to have very different emotional experiences in women’s studies than they do in courses related to soils, nutrition, or animal biology. When bringing in Equality, Diversity, […]
March 8, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Early Alert Support For Students with Brian Barth
This session will be held on Friday, March 5th, 2021 at noon. Continuing on our topic on student support from last week, Brian Barth, Manager, Student Support Services from the VP Students Office will be presenting this week on Supporting Students, and using Early Alert (EA). The Early Alert Program allows student advising, faculty and support staff to clearly […]
March 3, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging and supporting all students in large and distributed classes with Simon Bates
This session will be held on Friday, February 26th, 2021 at noon. When students transition to studying at university, they often find themselves in classes that are 10x larger than those they have known in high school. Even pre-COVID, engaging all students in such a large class – ensuring they feel supported and that someone […]
February 19, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Developing an Equity Competency in Sustainable Food Systems Education: Exploring a New Model and Sharing Teaching Activities with Will Valley
This session will be held on Friday, February 19th, 2021 at noon. Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued food movements as lacking an orientation towards addressing issues of social justice. To address issues of inequity, sustainable food systems education (SFSE) programs will have to […]
February 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Easy ways to Improve Student Engagement with Universal Design for Learning with Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, February 12, 2021 at noon. Univeral Design for Learning is an approach to give students mutiple means for engagement, representation, action, and expression. Encapsulating such a diverse range within your course will help students interact however they feel compelled to. There are easy ways to start adding diversity […]
February 9, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Just Food Educational Resources with Meryn Corkery and Rachel Cheang
This session was held on Friday, November 20, 2020 at noon. Meryn Corkery and Rachel Cheang will be the guest presenters for this week’s Lunch & Learn Office Hours. Join Rachel and Meryn to explore the Just Food Educational Resources, an open educational resource created through a TLEF. Just Food explores social justice issues by employing food as […]
November 16, 2020
Lunch & Learn Series: Student Course Time Estimator Tool with Michelle Lamberson and Daulton Baird
This session was held on Friday, November 6th at noon. This week’s Lunch & Learn Session will be on the Student Course Time Estimator Tool by Michelle Lamberson, Director, Flexible Learning Special Projects, and Daulton Baird, both of UBC Okanagan’s Office of the Provost and Vice President (Academic). The session will introduce the planning tool that […]
November 3, 2020