Here are a couple of Educational Scholarship Events that you may be interested in attending:
What Does Flexible Learning Look Like? – Wednesday May 8th 10:30am-12:30pm Earth Science Building 1012
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UBC embarks on the Flexible Learning Initiative from a position of considerable existing strength: a diverse range of strategies to enhance student learning enabled by technology are already in evidence throughout Faculties across the campus.
This session will present perspectives on what Flexible Learning looks like, from UBC’s President, Professor Stephen Toope, students and faculty from a variety of disciplinary contexts across campus.
List of Speakers:
- Professor Stephen Toope, President
- Fred Cutler, Associate Professor and Director Undergraduate Program, Political Science
- Mark Edwards, Assistant Dean, Professional Development and Community Engagement, Faculty of Education
- Paul Carter, Senior Instructor, Computer Science
- Paul Cubbon, Lecturer, Marketing, Sauder School of Business
- Peter Loewen, Assistant Professor and Director, Doctor of Pharmacy Programs, Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning and Academic Director CTLT
Talk by Dr Eric Mazur: The Tyranny of the Lecture – June 7th 2:00-4:00pm
Victoria Learning Centre, IKBLC
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Most — if not all — of the important skills in our life are acquired outside the traditional classroom setting. Yet we continue to teach using lectures where students passively take down information. Instead, we should really focus on the assimilation of that information and shift the focus from teaching to helping students learn.
Over the past 20 years, instructors world-wide have begun to adopt Peer Instruction to get students to think in class. With the advent of new technology the process can be significantly improved. A new data-analytics driven audience response system does away with multiple choice questions and helps instructors design better questions, manage time and process flow, and optimize the discussions in the classroom.
Presentation by: Dr. Eric Mazur
Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and physics education. The realization in the early 1990’s that despite, his careful and excellent lectures, his students were actually learning only a small fraction of what he was trying to teach them, led him to develop the instructional methodology known as Peer Instruction. Now widely adopted and utilized across many countries, institutions and disciplines, Peer Instruction is a key technique to enhance student engagement and learning in large classes.
