LFS Today Nov 24, 2022

News

LFS Merchandise Available for Orders

You can now buy new LFS-branded merchandise! You can buy online or in-store at the UBC Bookstore, or visit the Intranet to purchase internally for LFS faculty and staff pricing.

Newly branded merchandise includes beeswax, t-shirts, travel mug, baseball caps, recycled notebooks. We still have some classics – including the black notebooks and aprons – available on the Intranet.

Events

Nov. 25 – Lunch & Learn Series: Introduction to Learning Analytics: Canvas Analytics and Beyond with Craig Thompson

This session will be held on Friday, November 25th, 2022 at noon. Craig Thompson (LT Hub Learning Analytics team) will be leading the session this week.

Instructors strive to create effective learning spaces and opportunities where students engage with course content, participate in course activities, connect with their peers, and are invested in learning. Using course data to evaluate and improve learning is a key aspect of learning analytics and can be a useful evidence-based approach for helping instructors succeed in achieving their teaching goals.

This session will provide an overview of the field of learning analytics. It will focus on exploring dashboards and tools for instructors as a means of observing, analyzing and reflecting on teaching and learning activity in your courses. You will gain hands-on experience using Canvas Analytics to observe and reflect on activity in your courses.

This workshop will also provide an overview of UBC’s learning analytics tools and services. Craig will explore opportunities and areas in which learning analytics can support you, as an instructor, in improving teaching, learning, and engagement in your courses.

Join Craig and the Learning Centre team this Friday to learn more about Learning Analytics. To register for the Lunch and Learn Series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Follow the Lunch and Learn Series on the Lunch and Learn Webpage!

Dec. 20 – CityAge: Agritech for Food Security

North American food supply is facing compounding pressures. In response, a collection of new and innovative technologies are emerging across the industry that are addressing those pressures. British Columbia and Canada can be a leader in their development and deployment.

These technologies are bolstering domestic food supply in Canada and the US by reducing dependencies on global trade, amplifying production at home, and increasing export capacity into global markets.

They include environment-controlled facilities that produce fruits and vegetables anywhere, cellular agriculture that produces alternative proteins, and AI, robotics, and IoT that increase efficiency and accuracy on the farm, boosting productivity and limiting human error.

CityAge, the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and EMILI are coming together on December 20 to profile some of these technologies, discuss how the province can foster more tech development, and explore strategies for scaling these solutions to keep our food supply secure.

December 20

11:30am – 1:00pm PT

Register

Deadlines

Dec. 10 – UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture (Virtual Open House on Nov. 29)

Application deadline extended for the UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture! Apply by Dec. 10, and join us for a virtual open house on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 5pm to answer all your questions.

More information and registration can be found at https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/learn/practicum/

Dec. 12 – Call for proposals: SoTL Seed Program

The UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Technology offer a support program for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The SoTL Seed Program provides graduate research assistants, collegial support, and complementary funding for projects that seek to research and evaluate impactful pedagogies. Selected projects broaden our understanding of teaching and learning in higher education and show a potential for significant contributions to the UBC community and beyond.

Projects are strategically selected to reflect the breadth of work at UBC in terms of disciplines, scholarly approaches, and expertise.

Deadline: December 12, 2022. Please see the Program page for more information.

Rolling Call for Proposals: SoTL Dissemination Fund

In 2019, the Provost Office announced a new fund to support the publishing and dissemination of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning work. The funds are managed and adjudicated by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL).

The Dissemination Fund supports journal processing feedback, conference registration, travel costs, etc. All full time faculty at UBC-V are eligible to apply.

Deadline: Ongoing. Please see the Fund page for more information.