Gender, race, sexuality and social justice in literature
This project will develop learning objects that will include video, blogs, and social media sites that will help students build core research and intercultural skills in the course Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice in Literature (GRSJ 224). Students will participate in an open and collaborative community learning project that will permit participants’ active involvement […]
Your Chinese learning your way
The project “Your Chinese Learning, Your Way” aims to make learning Chinese outside of class more flexible for students. Examples of this include offering flexibility in deadlines for exercises and quizzes, providing more than one format of exercises and quizzes, and providing different ways to communicate with native speakers and other language learners. Placing exercises, […]
School of Nursing – Blended practice-based courses
The purpose of this flexible learning project is to revise the undergraduate curriculum in the School of Nursing to offer students a variety of didactic and clinical opportunities that reflect innovative care delivery in diverse practice settings and to introduce new teaching strategies in support of this, particularly with flexible learning. It will replace 12 […]
Civil Engineering lab safety videos
This project will create short, online instructional videos for Civil Engineering courses that have a lab component. Video content will contain instructions on safety, proper use of instrumentation, theoretical overviews, demonstrations, and calculations. Students can view the videos before labs so that more lab time can be dedicated to hands-on activities and interactions with teaching […]
Math exam resources wiki review and development
This project will look at how students use the Math Exam Resources (MER) wiki and how it impacts their learning, in particular mathematical understanding and problem-solving skills. The MER wiki is a community project started in February 2012 by a group of graduate student volunteers in the UBC Mathematics Department. The MER wiki provides an […]
A “flipped” approach to large-scale first-year Physics labs
This project will explore the practicality and pedagogy of having students do the lab component of Introductory Physics (PHYS 100) entirely at home. A group of volunteer students will perform experiments at home while the lab takes place on campus and participate in classroom and peer discussions using Blackboard Collaborate. The lab already has some […]
Blending fundamental and useful genetics
This project will create a one-term transition section of Fundamentals of Genetics (BIOL 234; section 103) in which materials from the Useful Genetics MOOC will be converted into a new blended course, Genetics for Life (BIOL 233). The new course will fulfill the same program objectives as BIOL 234, but will replace BIOL 234’s emphasis […]
Taking Entrepreneurship 101 online
Entrepreneurship 101 (COMM 280) is a university-wide initiative in its first year that teaches entrepreneurial skills to students across the campus and encourages student innovation and business savvy. This project will develop the e-curriculum of the course into an innovative mixed mode format, with half the work being done in person and half done online. […]
Health research methods course for undergraduate students
This project will adapt a previously developed and piloted post-graduate Distributed Health Research Methods Course (DHRMC) to make it applicable for undergraduate health discipline students. The newly adapted course will be piloted and evaluated with summer research undergraduate health discipline students. This project will also promote the uptake of DHRMC as an accredited component of […]
West Coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator (WICKED)
This project is dedicated to the West Coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator (WICKED), a web-based, interactive, simulated learning model to teach students the steps of evidence-informed health care. The interprofessional team will design five virtual patient cases that can be integrated into the curricula of all health professionals. The cases will be accessible to […]