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).

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).

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.

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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.

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.

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.