07/16/15

Leaders needed for the Interdisciplinary of Practice

Are you an interdisciplinary instructor? Do you have an interest in interdisciplinary learning?

The Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) at UBC is looking for new co-facilitators to lead and organize the ICoP going forward.

You will have the freedom to create events that you think will serve the ICoP, and take the ICoP in the direction you deem fit.

If interested please email ctlt.icop@ubc.ca for more information, or with any questions you may have.

All the best, Conor Douglas (current ICoP facilitator).

06/18/15

Call for new co-facilitators of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Are you an interdisciplinary instructor? Do you have an interest in interdisciplinary learning?

The Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) at UBC is looking for new co-facilitators to lead and organize the ICoP going forward.

You will have the freedom to create events that you think will serve the ICoP, and take the ICoP in the direction you deem fit.

If interested please email ctlt.icop@ubc.ca for more information, or with any questions you may have.

All the best, Conor Douglas (current ICoP facilitator).

 

 

03/9/15

BC edX Project and Flexible Learning – March 16th, 9:00 to 10:30

Dear past and present Interdisciplinary Community of Practice Members,

We wanted to draw your attention to two upcoming events relating to UBC’s developing partnership with edX and the edX platform and tools that may be of interest. The first is a general information session on how edX is contributing to our strategy for  flexible learning. The second is a two day intensive workshop for people with an interest in designing and developing within the edX platform. More information and registration links to both events are provided below.

Open Session: The UBC edX Project and Flexible Learning

March 16th, 9:00 to 10:30

Neville Scarfe Building Room 100

Please join us for an information session on the UBC edX project. The session will cover:

  • edX itself, including both the technical platform and the community
  • UBC’s goals in participating in the edX consortium and how those support UBC’s Flexible Learning Strategy
  • what UBC faculty and staff are already doing with edX, including MOOCs, Professional Education and on campus credit courses
  • how you can explore using edX for your courses
  • process and funding opportunities for developing materials using edX

Speakers will include:

Professor Angela Redish (Vice Provost and Associate Vice President, Enrolment and Academic Facilities)

 

Professor Gregor Kiczales ( UBC edX Project Lead &  Provost’s Fellow for Flexible Learning Strategy)

 

Professor Simon Bates (Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology)

 

Melanie MacFarlane (edX)

 

If you would like to attend this session please RSVP here: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=937.

Note this 90-minute session will be followed by a 1.5 day workshop for those who want to learn more about edX and developing content for online platforms. More details about the longer workshop are available at its registration page: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=895.

 

 

03/2/15

CORRECTION – Thursday March 5th, Interdisciplinary Panel Presentation on Strategies and Experiences in Teaching and Learning

Dear friends of UBC’s Interdisciplinary Community of Practice,

Sorry for any confusion in my previous message….the panel presentation on ‘Strategies and Experiences in Teaching and Learning’ will indeed take place on March 5th – THURSDAY, March 5th.

Time: 1:15 – 3:15 pm
Location: Dodson Room 302 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, Vancouver V6T 1Z1)

Please register here (http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=867) as seating is limited.

Overview: There is no one correct way for teaching in an interdisciplinary context. What is more, interdisciplinarity presents particular challenges in teaching and learning. To address these dynamics the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) has organized this panel with faculty members and students from across campus to share their experiences (and models) of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.  Our hope is that this session will open up discussions on different ways of interdisciplinary teaching, and raise awareness of how participants might be able to navigate this specific kind of instruction. Each speaker will share their experiences and models for interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and  Q&A will follow. Confirmed Speakers include:

-Dr. Christina Hendricks (ArtsOne, UBC)
-Prof. Marcello M. Veiga (Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, UBC)
-Dr. Tatiana Teslenko (APSC, Mechanical Engineering, UBC)
-Barak Herrera (Chair of the  Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network)

Moderator: Dr. Conor Douglas (Interdisciplinary Community of Practice Facilitator)

Refreshments will be provided through support of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network (IGSN). Faculty, students, and staff are welcome.

03/2/15

REMINDER- Panel talk THURSDAY March 5th on interdisciplinary strategies and experiences in teaching and learning

Dear friends of UBC’s Interdisciplinary Community of Practice,

Sorry for any confusion in my previous message….the panel presentation will indeed take place on March 5th – THURSDAY, March 5th.

Time: 1:15 – 3:15 pm
Location: Dodson Room 302 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, Vancouver V6T 1Z1)

Please register here (http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=867) as seating is limited.

Overview: There is no one correct way for teaching in an interdisciplinary context. What is more, interdisciplinarity presents particular challenges in teaching and learning. To address these dynamics the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) has organized this panel with faculty members and students from across campus to share their experiences (and models) of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.  Our hope is that this session will open up discussions on different ways of interdisciplinary teaching, and raise awareness of how participants might be able to navigate this specific kind of instruction. Each speaker will share their experiences and models for interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and  Q&A will follow. Confirmed Speakers include:

-Dr. Christina Hendricks (ArtsOne, UBC)
-Prof. Marcello M. Veiga (Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, UBC)
-Dr. Tatiana Teslenko (APSC, Mechanical Engineering, UBC)
-Barak Herrera (Chair of the  Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network)

Moderator: Dr. Conor Douglas (Interdisciplinary Community of Practice Facilitator)

Refreshments will be provided through support of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network (IGSN). Faculty, students, and staff are welcome.

02/16/15

Strategies and Experiences with Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning – A Panel Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Date: March 5, 2015
Time: 1:15 – 3:15 pm
Location: Dodson Room 302 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, Vancouver V6T 1Z1)

Please register here (http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=867) as seating is limited.

Overview: There is no one correct way for teaching in an interdisciplinary context. What is more, interdisciplinarity presents particular challenges in teaching and learning. To address these dynamics the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) has organized this panel with faculty members and students from across campus to share their experiences (and models) of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.  Our hope is that this session will open up discussions on different ways of interdisciplinary teaching, and raise awareness of how participants might be able to navigate this specific kind of instruction. Each speaker will share their experiences and models for interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and  Q&A will follow. Confirmed Speakers include:

-Dr. Christina Hendricks (ArtsOne, UBC)
-Prof. Marcello M. Veiga (Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, UBC)
-Dr. Tatiana Teslenko (APSC, Mechanical Engineering, UBC)
-Barak Herrera (Chair of the  Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network)

Moderator: Dr. Conor Douglas (Interdisciplinary Community of Practice Facilitator)

Refreshments will be provided through support of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Network (IGSN). Faculty, students, and staff are welcome.

10/28/14

CANCELLED – Oct 30th meeting of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Dear members of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice at UBC,

this is a message to inform you that we are having to cancel the meeting scheduled for October 30th (Thursday) Topic: Facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges across classrooms Time: 3:00-4:30pm Place: I.K. Barber Learning Center Room 2.22A.

Please stay posted for up-coming details concerning the November (27th) meeting, which may incorporate the topic of this cancelled meeting or could exclusively focus on designing interdisciplinary curriculum.

If you are interested in participating within the presentation team for the November meeting on either of these topics please comment on this blog or get in touch with the co-facilitators at: ctlt.icop@ubc.ca

In kind regards, Conor Douglas (on behalf of the co-facilitator team)

10/7/14

CALL FOR PRESENTER(S) – Facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges across classrooms – OCT 30th

Dear members of UBC’s Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP),

we are inviting faculty, students, and staff to participate in the next meeting of the ICoP as a presenter on October 30th (Thursday).

we had preliminarily selected the topic of ‘facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges across classrooms’, but we are open to variations or alternatives (see earlier blog post for our proposed program of activities for this academic year).

such a presentation can take any form: discussion of experiences, workshop for making exchanges happen in the future, or anything else you can dream up.

we had thought that the session could explore how teaching and learning can benefit from interdisciplinary exchanges. The hope is that our community can reflect on successful interdisciplinary teaching collaborations, and lay some structural ground work -in the form of information exchange and matchmaking- of how interdisciplinary teaching exchanges across UBC can be facilitated.

please contact us at ctlt.icop@ubc.ca

EVENT DETAILS

October 30th (Thursday)
Topic: Facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges across classrooms
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Place: I.K. Barber Learning Center Room 2.22A

Details: This session looks to explore how can teaching and learning benefit from interdisciplinary exchanges. The hope is that our community can reflect on successful interdisciplinary teaching collaborations, and lay some structural ground work -in the form of information exchange and matchmaking- of how interdisciplinary teaching exchanges across UBC can be facilitated.

09/24/14

REMINDER- Sept 25 meeting of Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Dear Members of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) at UBC,

this is a reminder to please visit the event page here to register for our first meeting of the academic year on Thursday September 25th from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Fraser River Room (Room 2.27).

Given that this is the first meeting of the year, and in the new ICoP structure, we invite participants to help us explore the meaning of ‘interdisciplinarity’. There are many neologisms that are often conflated with interdisciplinarity (i.e. multidisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, nondisciplinary, transdisciplinary) it is our hope to explore what interdisciplinarity is, and what sets it apart –if anything- from other practices.

If you are having problems copy and paste the link into your browser: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?category_name=Interdisciplinary%20CoP

All the best, and see you on Thursday

The ICoP co-facilitators.

09/15/14

September (25th) meeting of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Dear Members of the Interdisciplinary Community of Practice (ICoP) at UBC,

we are pleased to announce. or remind you, of our first meeting of the academic year on Thursday September 25th from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Fraser River Room (Room 2.27).

Please visit the event page here to register.

Given that this is the first meeting of the year, and in the new ICoP structure, we invite participants to help us explore the meaning of ‘interdisciplinarity’. There are many neologisms that are often conflated with interdisciplinarity (i.e. multidisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, nondisciplinary, transdisciplinary) it is our hope to explore what interdisciplinarity is, and what sets it apart –if anything- from other practices.

If you are having problems copy and paste the link into your browser: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?category_name=Interdisciplinary%20CoP

 

All the best, and see you next week,

 

Conor Douglas on behalf of the ICoP co-facilitators.