Lunch & Learn Resources: Course Design
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 […]
Sep 07, 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 […]
Aug 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 […]
Aug 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 […]
Aug 03, 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 […]
Jul 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 […]
Jul 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 […]
Jun 17, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Instructor perspectives on teaching a large online introductory science course during the COVID-19 pandemic with Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic
This session will be held on Friday, June 11, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic will discuss their experience transitioning a large on-campus introductory soil science course into the online setting. This includes the consolidation of existing course material, developing a weekly structure which aligns content and assessment with learning outcomes, combining synchronous […]
Jun 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Cultivating Creativity in STEM Classrooms with Lindsay Cuff
This session will be held on Friday, May 28 at noon. Lindsay Cuff (LFS/Forestry Assistant Professor of Teaching) will be our guest presenter for this week. This session will focus on the importance of integrating and nurturing creativity in STEM courses. Participants will learn practical techniques to encourage creative thinking and engagement, both online and […]
May 25, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging in Thoughtful Reflection on Student Evaluations of Teaching to Improve Course Design and Teaching Practice with Candice Rideout
This session will be held on Friday, May 7, at noon The feedback students provide on end-of-term Student Evaluations of Teaching (SEoT) surveys can be tremendously valuable – but reading (and interpreting) SEoT reports can be hard. In this session, we will briefly review some of the literature regarding SEoT surveys (including some potential sources […]
May 05, 2021