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