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GenAI and Hans-on Learning: CIC’s Approach and Impact on Student Support
Liana Leung and Aman Prakash from UBC’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) presented at the ID CoP on June 26th. They introduced the CIC and some of the current student-led projects, as well as Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that allows companies to experiment with and evaluate foundation models (FMs) for their use case. Companies […]
All our relations – LDDI
During the ID CoP on February 21, 2024, Faeyza Mufti and Gabrielle Combs from Learning Design & Digital Innovation, Faculty of Education presented on the following: Beyond Binary: Our response to generative AI UDL Case Study: Designing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Moving Forward: Aspirations & Celebrations You can access the PowerPoint presentation […]
Instructional Design CoP (Feb 21, 2024)
Register for our next ID CoP: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/instructional-design-community-of-practice-convergence-of-generative-ai-accessibility-and-universal-design-february-21-2024/ This session is dedicated to exploring the intersection of Generative AI, Accessibility, and Universal Design. Come join us!
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Gamification of Teaching
At the ID CoP on January 8, 2020, I presented on Gamification of Teaching. Here are the presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bbug7_iDCm2TQXCAXKPW5I8U6zTi5MjXTlX2nwZy-p0/edit?usp=sharing I used https://jeopardylabs.com/ to create a Jeopardy activity, a free tool with no registration required. I also used a free buzzer app, https://buzzin.live/ with no registration required.
Jeopardy: Gamify your Teaching using the Technology
An instructor in Engineering recently contacted us to help her set up a Jeopardy quiz for an activity in class. We suggested her to use Jeopardylabs and an online buzzer system, BuzzIn.live. Jeopardylabs (https://jeopardylabs.com/) is an open source app that allows instructors to create a game that can facilitate immediate feedback and interactions with and […]
Course Workload Estimator
How much work can we expect of students in a course? There are lots of discussions around the concept of ‘contact hours’, which nevertheless is the standard measuring unit for face-to-face teaching. A common estimate is that for every hour of classroom time, students spend a minimum of two hours out-of-class study for readings, assignments, […]
Teaching and Learning Professional Development Online Course Pilot
Deb Chen presented a pilot project on Teaching and Learning Professional Development Online Course, a Canvas course composed of a series of modules on different university teaching topics (e.g. learning objectives, motivating students, active learning, assessment and alignment).
Designing Open Texts
Lucas Wright demonstrated how to create an open textbook using the Pressbook. Here is a link to the Pressbook that he used to present with in the session as well as the session slides:
Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS)
In the CoP meeting held on September 14, 2012 Negin Mirriahi gave an excellent presentation on CLAS, a Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS), recently developed by Arts ISIT and the Department of Psychology that allows students to annotate and flag important parts of a video. More information about CLAS can be found here: http://isit.arts.ubc.ca/support/collaborative-lecture-annotation-system-clas/ Here is […]