LFS Teaching Symposium 2025
This year’s LFS Teaching Symposium will be held on Monday, May 5th, 2025 from 10am to 1pm. This year’s theme is Artificial Intelligence: Ideas, Benefits and Drawbacks and our special guest is Elisa Baniassad, Professor of Teaching in Computer Science, current Deputy Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, and soon-to-be Academic […]
LFS Teaching Colloquy 2023
This year’s LFS Teaching Colloquy will be held on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 from 10am to 2pm. This year, we’ll be covering Multi-access and Hybrid Teaching in the morning, and Artificial Intelligence with a focus on ChatGPT in the afternoon. We hope you can join us for some or both of the sessions! Please RSVP […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Intro to cloud computing & UBC’s Advanced Research Computing team
Our next session will be held on Friday, April 14 at noon. Ken Bigelow (ARC System Administrator) will lead the session this week. Researchers are venturing more and more into the use of cloud computing and commercial cloud vendors. Many of these researchers are new to system administration and managing cloud services, which can make […]
Lunch & Learn Session: Multi-access learning as a means of enhancing student learning, engagement, and sense of course community
Our next session will be held on Friday, February 10, 2023 at noon (PST). Dr. Patricia Hingston, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Food Science program, will be hosting this week. In this Lunch & Learn, Dr. Patricia Hingston will share how she used multi-access learning in her large enrolment (200 students) Food Microbiology course to improve student engagement, […]
Lunch & Learn JEDI Session: Unsettling Approaches to Food Security with Will Valley
This session will be held on Friday, January 20, 2023 at noon. Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will be leading the discussion this week. The Lunch & Learn Series hosts a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)-based discussion session on the third Friday of each month. These sessions […]