TRAINING WORKSHOPS

 

Using Social Media to Engage Students and Humanize Online Teaching

Online Workshop
 Online Teaching Program series at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), UBC.

Students, and everyone for that matter, are more accustomed to the world of social media than ever before. An average student spends about 2 hours a day on social media sites (Perrin and Jiang, 2018). So, it would be an effective tool to incorporate it into our teaching strategies.
How can we leverage social media to engage our students? In this workshop, we will review the structure of various social media and discuss how we are using social media to connect with students across a wide range of courses for resource sharing and peer learning.
In order to better understand how our students interact with our digital content, we will also share analytics from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

In addition to exploring some of the benefits of social media, we will also look at some of its downsides: privacy concerns and general criticisms. We will conclude by identifying how we can address these issues when we are ready to adopt social media in our teaching.

 

A Workshop on Active Learning

Improving Student Engagement in Technology-Enhanced Classrooms: What Works, What Matters and Why?

First presented at Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology’s Summer Institute

 

Evaluation strategies for a Blended learning Course (a flipped classroom) 

Summary: A discussion of course design for a fourth-year Research Seminar: To research social issues, students must have an understanding of human behaviour, culture, and socioeconomic foundations. Peer discussions, which often generate positive externalities, can lead to a greater understanding of the costs and benefits of various policies and behaviours (Van Den Berg, Admiraal, & Pilot, 2006). While the interaction between the professor and students is mostly at the individual level, peer discussions are at the individual level, in small group settings, or in large groups. [Link]