UBC now offers free teaching professional development through the The Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL).  We have opportunities both in our local learning

community  http://cirtl.ubc.ca/ and the CIRTL cross-network learning community, a consortium of 45 research-intensive universities working together to improve STEM education (https://www.cirtl.net/)

At UBC, students can receive certification as a CIRTL Associate, Practitioner, or Scholar. To become a CIRTL Associate, students can either take an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) http://ctlt.ubc.ca/programs/all-our-programs/instructional-skills-workshops/ or a new non-credit course called ‘Foundations of Pedagogy1’, next offered in September 2017. 

For other CIRTL cross network on-line courses, which are open to students from UBC, see the CIRTL-central website https://www.cirtl.net/p/cirtls-spring-courses-open-for-registration.  

CIRTL also offers a massive open online course (MOOC), which begins January 30th (https://www.cirtl.net/p/cirtls-spring-moocs-open-for-registration). If you decide to take the MOOC, please let us know ( cirtl.info@ubc.ca), and we can organize a meet-up of interested participants for teaching-related discussions. 

For questions about CIRTL, please email Jens at cirtl.info@ubc.ca.  Note, we had a problem with our original email, so our apologies if you tried to reach us. Please try again and don’t hesitate to ask questions.

Sincerely,Lacey 

Professor A. Lacey Samuels

Department of Botany, CIRTL UBC co-leader

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4 

phone: (604)

822-5469