Documentation:CTLT Slack Channels Resources
Staff members at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) are constantly sharing resources that inspire and inform their practice. Slack serves as an easy way to collaborate and share with colleagues links and resources that can serve the different interests of the UBC teaching and learning community. Find below different resources shared throughout CTLT’s Slack channels.
General
The #general channel is for CTLT-wide communications and announcements.
- Notetonic - student feedback response system
- One thought blog - higeredstrategy.com
- BCcampus online office hours: basics of online learning
- Transitioning to teaching online: presence - ETS UBC (YouTube video)
- Support for faculty members teaching remotely in summer 2020 term 1 (google doc)
- Enroll in Arts remote teaching demo (Canvas course)
- Arts ISIT workshops: pedagogical series
- Learner-teacher partnership in times of COVID-19: A community poll to share practices and perspectives
- Pivoting to online learning and teaching - BCcampus
- PhET: Interactive simulations for science and math - University of Colorado Boulder
- BCcampus 2020 H5P OER development grant
- How does Collaborate Ultra compare to Zoom (google doc)
- Coronavirus: When teaching during a disaster, students need to be partners
- May 2020 TA Institute
- Final report of the Student Evaluations of Teaching working group posted in the "Meetings and agendas UBC Senate" (May 27th meeting - "materials" PDF p.178)
- Middle managers and offices are good for you
- Virtual lab and science resource directory - BCcampus
- Working post-pandemic: what campus employees need (now)
- Activating solidarity: a guide to anti-racism work - UBC Equity and Inclusion Office
- One hour @ UBC - UBC Extended Learning
- Leading self when working remotely
- Quarantine fatigue is real
- Online teaching and learning best practices - UBC Faculty of Forestry
- Dr. Catherine Rawn appointed Provost Office Fellow in Online Learning - UBC Department of Psychology
- In defense of our teachers
- Study reveals most popular hobbies during the coronavirus outbreak
- COVID-19 go forward guidelines for BC's post-secondary sector
- Instructors believe students more likely to cheat when class is online
- Student discount for remote learning
- Missed conversation: Launching open at the margins book
- Open dialogues: Daniel Heath Justice on decolonizing open
- Interim Academic Lead announced for Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Transition plan for students: David Gaertner Spotlight - Online Teaching Program
- Ainsley Carry and Andrew Szeri: UBC faculty and staff designing new models for students and faculty interaction - Op Ed in Vancouver Sun
- Extension of appointment of Dr. Minelle Mahtani, Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty
- Principles for Remote Invigilation (Keep Teaching)
- Corporate discounts and resources for staff and faculty: Coping with stress & building resilience
- Make an emergency kit - City of Vancouver
- New Indigenous Strategic Plan establishes UBC’s role in upholding the rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Learning Skills Workshops (for students)
- Profs-in-Commons (virtual coffee chats with UBC faculty members)
- Sample course template page (UBC Wiki)/How to create a new Wiki page
- Twitter apologises for 'racist' image-cropping algorithm - The Guardian
- Trans Mentorship Program (for students)
- 2020 AES and AMS COVID Survey Reports
- Disability Affinity Group (for faculty and staff)
- Midway through the first full term of online classes, university students are burning out
- Racial Equity Tools
- UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan | Sample Performance Measurement Framework
- 12 Techniques of the Holidays 2020
- Interface and interaction design for an online, asynchronous peer instruction tool
- Resources for faculty | Inclusive Teaching @ UBC
Edubytes
The #Edu-bytes channel shares resources on emerging trends and innovations in teaching and learning in higher education that can be shared through our Edubytes newsletter. Each edition covers a different topic and provides insights from research to best practices and more. Browse through shared resources below, for curated content review our past editions and subscribe to receive our monthly newsletter in your inbox.
- Pivots, pirouettes, and piqués: gracefully managing the anxieties of remote teaching and learning
- The H5P OER HUB
- Here2Talk
- Teaching online resources to assist with instructional continuity during COVID-19 (google doc)
- Transforming assessment
- CTLT Remote Teaching Institute
- How teaching changed in the (forced) shift to remote learning - Inside Higher Ed
- 10 simple rules for supporting a temporary online pivot in higher education
- Exam anxiety: how remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
- Kyle Hiebert: In the COVID-19 world, open source textbooks are the way of the future
- Lab/simulation resources (google sheet)
- Keep Learning UBC
- Educational assessment - Faculty Focus
- The single most essential requirement in designing a fall online course
- Session resources, supporting student bandwidth in online learning environments (google doc)
- Nelson to strategically withdraw from post-secondary market with Top Hat to acquire its Canadian domestic higher ed textbook business
- (PDF) Estimating student workload during the learning design of online courses: creating a student workload calculator
- How to build an online learning community: 6 theses
- The reversibility paradox - iterating toward openness
- Using announcements to give narrative shape to your online course
- Will active learning be possible if colleges have physically distanced classrooms this fall?
- The 7 elements of a good online course
- Accessibility on the fringes in a time of crisis
- Activating solidarity: a guide to anti-racism work - UBC Equity and Inclusion Office
- Fixing the broken textbook market
- Removing barriers to online learning through a teaching and learning lens
- Education in a post-COVID world: nine ideas for public action
- Turns out you can build community in a Zoom classroom
- What kept students remotely satisfied this spring? Well-designed and well-delivered courses
- WPCampus: where Wordpress meets higher education
- Lessons from spring for a successful fall - Duke Learning Innovation
- Remote delivery experiences and advice: lessons learned form winter 2020 - Teaching for Learning @McGill University
- Report: removing barriers to online learning through a teaching and learning lens
- Stuck at home, this AP history class had 69 days to prove whether remote learning can work for them
- Teaching from home: some technical advice
- We will still be emergency teaching in fall 2020
- Instructional design on lockdown
- Critical digital pedagogy: A collection
- Research reports on COVID-19 and emergency remote learning/online learning
- Lessons from a college that has practiced having socially distant classes (opinion)
- Can HyFlex options support students in the midst of uncertainty?
- Pandemic drives increased interest in open educational resources
- The impact of OER initiatives on faculty selection of classroom materials
- EDUCAUSE QuickPoll results: Fall planning for online and physical spaces
- The Chronicle: How the Pandemic Is Pushing Professors to Improve Their Pedagogy
- Inside Higher Ed: Yes, Virginia, There's a Better Way to Grade
- Whitepaper: Disruption in and by Centres for Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- The 4M (Mico-Meso-Marco-Mega) framework as analytic lens for SoTL’s impact: A study of seven scholars
- CAUT: Re-opening colleges and universities: Fall semester plans
- EDUCAUSE: 6 Models for Blended Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Course Delivery
- Faculty Focus: Grading Exams: How Gradescope Revealed Deeper Insights into Our Teaching
- Teaching in Higher Ed: Teaching Effectively with Zoom, with Dan Levy
- Teach Online: Cheating by Student or Faculty - What can be Done?
- NY Times: How It Feels When Software Watches You Take Tests
- Exam Design: Promoting Integrity Through Trust and Flexibility
- EDUCAUSE: 2020 Student Technology Report: Supporting the Whole Student
- OER Commons: OER & Online Learning: Faculty Quick Start Guide
- EdSurge Guides: Pandemic Campus Diaries: A Podcast Series
- Covid-19, Participatory Culture, and the Challenges of Misinformation and Disinformation
- Phase 3 of Higher Ed’s Response to COVID Will Extend the Turmoil Through Spring 2021
- Why discussion sucks (and what to do about it)
- EDUCASE: Top IT Issues, 2021: Emerging from the Pandemic (article)
- EDUCASE: Top IT Issues, 2021: Emerging from the Pandemic (video)
- EDUCASE: The Landscape of Merging Modalities
- Inside Higher Ed: Why Higher Ed Needs Data Ethics
- Inside Higher Ed: Student impressions of online learning improve modestly this fall
- Inside Higher Ed: Due to COVID, demand for analytics has risen significantly, but information doesn't mean action (opinion)
- Insider Higher Ed: Teaching Online in the COVID Crisis: What We Have Learned
- Harvard: Best Practices: Online Pedagogy
- ETUG: Fall Workshop 2020 videos
- CBC: B.C. assistant professors worried about faculty, student burnout from online learning
- Online Learning: Professional Development for Online Teaching: A Literature Review
- McGill: How can you support student wellness in your remote courses?
- SSRN: An Hundred Stories in Ten Days': COVID-19 Lessons for Culture, Learning, and Copyright Law
- Distracted Minds: Why You Should Teach Like a Poet
- The Nation: Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data
- EDUCAUSE: Horizon Report® | Teaching and Learning Edition
- EDUCASE: Predicting Levels of Student Satisfaction during COVID-19
- Connected Learning Alliance: The Paradox of Pandemic Education: We Changed Everything to Be Mostly the Same. Can Connected Learning Offer a New Way Forward?
- PhilOnEdTech: Dartmouth Cheating Debacle: 3 Initial Observations
- e-Literate: The Netflix of Education, ad nauseum
- BCCampus: Effectively Moving Away from Traditional Proctored Exams in First-Year Physics Courses
Pedagogy
The #pedagogy channel shares tips, tricks, and resources for pedagogy due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
- Assignments & assessments - UBC Keep Teaching
- Transforming assessment
- Classroom assessment: first online CATs
- Consider these ideas when planning your course online - BCcampus
- Federal court of appeal deal access copyright huge blow as is overturns York University copyright decision
- Facilitating learning online - FLO - synchronous - BCcampus
- Reports, reviews and resources - BCcampus
- Equity, diversity & inclusion in teaching and learning: an introductory course in five modules (Canvas course)
- How to be a better online teacher - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 10 simple rules for support a temporary online pivot in higher education
- Equity, diversity and inclusion in online teaching: where to begin?
- Collaborate Ultra and Zoom feature comparison (google sheet)
- COVID-19: Arts ISIT support and resources
- The modern classrooms project
- DIY media at UBC
- How do I make a screen recording using QuickTime on a Mac?
- Welcome to the learning designer - University College London
- Presentation skills - UBC Wiki
- The guide to fostering asynchronous online discussion in higher education
- Facilitate discussions - University of Central Florida
- Sandbox:Tips for Fostering Asynchronous Online Discussion - UBC Wiki
- Documentation:Digital Facilitation - UBC Wiki
- References: The People Behind the Pedagogy - UBC Vantage Collage
- Surviving group projects - University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Working with student teams - Penn State University
- ITP metrics
- An early look at fall 2020 in Canadian postsecondary
- An affinity for asynchronous learning
- Bringing out the human in synchronous and asynchronous media for learning
- Smirkybec edits Wikipedia
- What is HyFlex and when should we use it?
- Will active learning be possible if colleges have physically distanced classrooms this fall? - Inside Higher Ed
- Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore - an Antipode Foundation film
- Online teaching basics: improving student learning while saving faculty time
- Facilitating learning online - BCcampus
- Professional development for the 2020 fall semester: how to help faculty and administrators prepare
- Introduction - Student evaluations of teaching
- Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices
- Cultivating an inclusive climate in online classrooms
- Teachers: Top features for securing your virtual classrooms and enhancing students’ learning experiences
- Instructional strategies for the future
- An in-depth look at the pulling together Indigenization guide: Teachers and instructors
- Engaging students through active learning techniques - Canvas course (Online Teaching Program)
- Video Resources for Virtual Land Acknowledgements
- Gauging Student Access to Online Courses: Suggested Survey Questions - Word document
Online teaching program
In the 2020 summer terms the CTLT will offer an online teaching program to help faculty members with their remote teaching. The #online-teaching-program channel shares helpful resources for the course.
- New faculty orientation guide
- FLO facilitation guide
- Teaching online (Canvas course)
- Canvas course - https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/51032/modules#module_252698
- Considering the return to the classroom
- Principles of course design - Queens University
- Preparing guidance for online teaching assistants - Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
- GOLD - Going remote - York University
- Course conversion plan template - York University
- Take your teaching online: interacting with students
- Take your teaching online: Synchronous and asynchronous modes of teaching
- Blended and online teaching - Carleton University
- The difference between emergency remote teaching and online learning
- The guide to fostering asynchronous online discussion in higher education
- Creating and sharing content
- 'Zoom fatigue': Here's why videoconferencing leaves you feeling tired
- Virtual and remote labs - University of Central Florida
- Sandbox:Assessment Considerations
- Example of online courses - Educational Technology Support
- Assessment for online education - Educational Technology Support
Teaching online
The #teachingonline channel is a place where CTLT staff brainstorm ideas for remote professional development activities and the development of a course on online teaching.
- Assessments - Centre for Teaching and Learning UBCO
- Pivots, pirouettes, and piqués: gracefully managing the anxieties of remote teaching and learning
- Face-to-face learning is inferior To online learning. Maybe. Sometimes. In some cases. If you ignore the nuance
- I can’t go on, I’ll go on (with apologies to Samuel Beckett)
- Let's talk: effectively communicating with your online students
- Learning online: Karen Smith - UBC Science
- 12 Key ideas: and introduction to teaching online
- Learning online: Elisa Baniassad - UBC Science
- Teaching online - Educational Technology Support
- Online learning - Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
- Creating presence with synchronous and asynchronous remote teaching (video)
- Instructional resources: netiquette
- Communicating online: netiquette - UBC Distance Learning
- Online learning tips - UBC Keep Learning
- Communication guidelines - Online Teaching Program
- Fostering fun: engaging students with asynchronous online learning
- Remote teaching setup options
- Sandbox: Zoom and Collaborate comparison
- Collaborate Ultra Vs Zoom comparison - UBC Skylight
- Teaching and learning centres are the academic heroes of COVID-19
- Beyond the text - UBC Faculty of Arts
- Webinar: How to design learning games using online platforms such as Zoom, an LMS or WordPress
- Student voices on remote education in the COVID-19 era: Recommendations for fall based on student self-reported data
- UBC Wiki: How to create a course wiki page
- Learning to learn online - eCampusOntario
- Alternative host - Zoom support
- Zoom best practice guide for large classes
- Bichronous Online Learning: Blending Asynchronous and Synchronous Online Learning - EDUCAUSE
- High-Quality Open Online Courses - BC Campus
- Dear Professors: Don't Let Student Webcams Trick You - EDUCAUSE
- Kahoot! + Zoom: New integration brings engagement to distance learning and video conferencing
Open learning design
The #openlearningdesign channel is a place for discussion on resources and topics related to open learning design.