The e-Learning Institute and the Office of Learning Technology will be holding a series of WebCT drop-in sessions for faculty throughout the fall. These are informal question and answer sessions with WebCT specialists in attendance. Bring your questions and they’ll do their best to provide answers.
Next Session? Sept 27th, 2006 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Where? IT Services, Telestudio, Lower Level, 2329 West Mall, Rm#0110
Cindy
For whatever reason, many students seem to be confused this term. Here are some of the more common confusions:
Is my course online or print-based?
How do I get my course materials?
When is my course going to start – I don’t see it on my webCT list (it’s a print-based course)?
As you know, students are sent a welcome email at the start of the term by our Course Support Liaison. You should have received a copy of this. If not contact our CSL. Sadly, some students have set their spam filters on high alert and consequently some of the emails were not received.
Here are a few things you can do to help un-confuse the confused (when they contact you):
Cindy
The Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (TAG) has recently obtained UBC site licenses for two teaching and learning related electronic newsletters: The Teaching Professor and Online Classroom.
Some highlights from this month’s editions:
Activities 101: Considering Collaboration
By Patti Shank, PhD, CPT
You may not have considered collaborative activities for the courses you teach. Even if you understand the benefits of collaborative activities, redesigning your courses to include them may seem daunting. You may also have questions about how to monitor and grade such activities. And you may have heard complaints from other instructors about the problems they have faced with collaborative activities. Easier to just stay with the same ole, same ole, right?
Alignment: A Model that Responds to Teaching Tensions
How do instructors balance demands to make courses challenging and at the same time make them accessible to students? How do instructors find a way to be informal and friendly with students at the same time they maintain proper authority and professional distance? How do instructors simultaneously meet the needs of learners who learn well in groups and those who learn better on their own? Donald Wulff believes that effective teaching rests on the ability to respond to tensions that are inherently a part of interactions between the professor, students, and context. Good teachers know how to make adjustments between competing demands—they “align” their instruction so that learning is achieved.
All members of the UBC teaching community may register to receive free subscription(s) to either or both of these newsletters. Registration is only required once. With your subscription(s), you will receive a monthly email providing you with the current issue’s table of contents, and links to both individual articles and the entire issues.
To register for your free subscription(s) enter the following Voucher Code and PIN number when prompted:
Voucher Code: UBC
PIN number: 0302
Happy reading …
Cindy
Starting August 1st you will need a Campus-Wide Login (CWL) ID and password to log into the Faculty Service Centre (FSC).
If you haven’t created a CWL ID already, please do so now: create my CWL.
You will no longer need nor be able to use your FSC ID and password.
Campus-Wide Login (CWL) is UBC’s single sign-on authentication system. It is designed to give you access to UBC’s online applications with the same username and password.
Need help creating your CWL id? CWL help now.
If you have any questions regarding your appointment status possibly delaying your CWL access, please contact OLT.
