Tell Session Feb 24 UBC Flexible Learning Liaisons

1. Tuesday With ETUG
Flexing Undergraduate
Education @UBC
Judy Chan, Jason Myers, Gillian Garhard
University of British Columbia
February 24, 2015

2. Agenda
• Flexible Learning @UBC
• Flexible Roles of Flexible Learning Liaisons
• Project Examples
• What we’re learning
• Questions and Answers

3. 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

4. Flexible Learning @ UBC

5. 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 video
http://redshoes.smugmug.com/CTLT-Shared/Videos/i-Fb8qVbR

6. Project Examples
Community Based Experiential Learning
• Land and Food Systems - LFS 350
http://lfs350.landfood.ubc.ca/

7. Project Examples http://lfs350.landfood.ubc.ca

8. Project Examples
Flipped classroom
• FNH 473 - Nutrition Education in the
Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhasWStC_pU
• POLI 369T - Living With Nuclear Weapons
interdisciplinary collaboration between Political Science
and Electrical Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/user/ubcpoli369t
• Science Frog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudLeVVSZuo

9. Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom

10. Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_SwKG4Zt60

11. Project Examples Video for Flipped Classroom

12. 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, 311
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/showcase/tcmt-1/

13. Project Examples
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/slider/project-profiles-video-interviews-with-ubc-faculty-members/

14. Project Examples
MOOCs
• 10 courses have been developed with more
under development
http://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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Questions?

18. Thank You!
Visit the UBC Flexible Learning web site for more
information
http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca