The 2025 CTLT Spring Institute will take place online and in-person from May 5-7, 2025 during UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week. The CTLT Spring Institute focuses on practices that foster academic resilience and advance innovation in education. The Spring Institute also serves as a forum for members of the teaching and learning community to collaborate, network and engage in knowledge exchange.
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Active Learning & Inclusive Teaching: Synergies and Antagonisms
May 5, 2025|10:00 am–11:30 amIn-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. This interactive session will provide instructors with strategies that support students with diverse identities and learning needs when participating in collaborative active learning and assignments. Participants will consider neurodivergent conditions, gender, and the needs of English…
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Workshopping a Model for Developing a Grade Alignment Policy Across (Multi-section) Courses
May 5, 2025|1:00 pm–2:30 pmIn-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. How can multi-section courses balance coordination with instructor autonomy while ensuring students experience fairness and consistency? This interactive session introduces a new Model of Grade Alignment Policy Development, designed to help units and instructors navigate the…
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Collective Insights: UBCV Keynote In-Person Viewing and Lunch Conversations
May 6, 2025|10:30 am–1:00 pmIn-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Join us for a special in-person viewing of the Celebrate Learning Week keynote address by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani on our theme Collective Growth: Cultivating Meaningful Change, followed by a community conversation over lunch. Experience the keynote…
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Exploring Faculty Wellbeing: Stories and Strategies for Academic and Personal Wellbeing
May 6, 2025|1:30 pm–3:00 pmIn-person (UBCV) This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Stress is a common part of being a faculty member, but how are you coping? Do you feel your wellbeing is under siege and not sure what to do about it? In this panel session, faculty…
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Students as Partners in Course Re-Design: Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Impact of Student-Faculty Partnerships at UBC
May 7, 2025|10:00 am–11:30 amOnline This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. What happens when students, faculty, and staff collaborate as equal partners in course design? From 2022 to 2025, UBC Vancouver’s Students as Partners Initiative funded 52 course redesign projects across 10 faculties, engaging 133 undergraduate students as…
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Fostering Neurodiversity Affirming Teaching Approaches
May 7, 2025|1:00 pm–2:30 pmOnline This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to neurodiversity as an umbrella concept, and the impact of neurodivergence on student learning. Together, we will consider how to foster a neurodiversity affirming classroom environment. We will explore…
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Scripting Collaborative Writing to Foster Student Learning and Student Resilience
May 7, 2025|2:30 pm–4:00 pmOnline This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. Do you want your students to enjoy working together and producing collaborative texts that showcase their best work? Are you afraid of being “that instructor” who assigns collaborative work that students loathe — that they experience as…