Tuesday With ETUG Flexing Undergraduate
Education @UBCJudy Chan, Jason Myers, Gillian Garhard
University of British Columbia
February 24, 2015
Agenda
• Flexible Learning @UBC
• Flexible Roles of Flexible Learning Liaisons
• Project Examples
• What we’re learning
• Questions and Answers
Flexible Learning @ UBC
focus on undergraduate transformation,
particularly blended active learning
• flexibility in terms of access
• flexibility in terms of pedagogy
• efficiency and cost savings
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca
Flexible Learning @ UBC
Flexible Learning Liaisons
Leverage cross unit relationships to build a
distributed yet connected network across the
broader university
• Bridge central and faculty supports
• Embedded within faculty units
• Share best practices and examples
• Judy Chan’s FL Liaison videohttp://redshoes.smugmug.com/CTLT-Shared/Videos/i-Fb8qVbR
Project Examples
Community Based Experiential Learning
• Land and Food Systems - LFS 350http://lfs350.landfood.ubc.ca/
Project Examples http://lfs350.landfood.ubc.ca
Project Examples
Flipped classroom
• FNH 473 - Nutrition Education in the
Communityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhasWStC_pU
• POLI 369T - Living With Nuclear Weapons interdisciplinary collaboration between Political Science
and Electrical Engineeringhttps://www.youtube.com/user/ubcpoli369t
• Science Froghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudLeVVSZuo
Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom
Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_SwKG4Zt60
Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom
Project Examples
coordinated blended transformation across core
courses in a department
multiple instructors, multiple sections, shared
resources
• Biology - BIOL 112 & BIOL 121
• Linguistics - LING 100, 200, 311http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/showcase/tcmt-1/
Project Examples
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/slider/project-profiles-video-interviews-with-ubc-faculty-members/
Project Examples
MOOCs
• 10 courses have been developed with more
under developmenthttp://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/implementation/current-and-upcoming-ubc-moocs/
• 4 have been offered on edX https://www.edx.org/school/ubcx
being used as part of blended course
transformations
Learning Tech Rovers
Undergraduate Co-op students provide on
demand learning technology support to faculty
• provide needed support while gaining work
experience
• embedded in faculties with shared training and
community sessions centrally
• encourage direct interactions between the
students and faculty
What we’re learning...
• Sharing resources and approaches across
departments/faculties
• Support models blurred across face to face,
blended and online
•Ownership of innovations and resources being
developed
•Encouraging cooperation between usually
independent instructors/faculties
Questions?
Thank You!
Visit the UBC Flexible Learning web site for more
information
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca