The Coffee & Collaborate Hour offers UNBC faculty, instructors, and TAs an opportunity to connect with the CTLT to ask any question about available UNBC instructional technologies, request a demonstration of techniques, or simply discuss an idea or concern.  You may ask your questions using your microphone on your laptop or headset or by text chat in the web-conference.

The post-secondary science community have been seeking means and methods for addressing the hands-on, lab-based portions of their courses in light of the COVID-19 response. Join us to discuss resources and approaches to online labs and remote science education.  In preparation for the seminar please consider reviewing the newly published Virtual Lab and Science Resource Directory ( https://opentextbc.ca/virtualscienceresources/ )

 

CTLT co-presenter:

i>Clicker REEF ( https://www.iclicker.com/students/apps-and-remotes/apps ) is a student response system that allows students to use a smartphone, tablet or laptop to vote and take polls during an online on on-campus class.  Many instructors at UNBC have been using i>Clicker and i>Clicker REEF for years and i>Clicker features are currently integrated with https://learn.unbc.ca.

The https://learn.unbc.ca Retention Center helps you discover which students in your course are at risk based on default rules and rules you can create through analysis of student transactional data in https://learn.unbc.ca.   The Retention Centre data is visually displayed, quickly alerting you to potential students at risk. From the Retention Center, you can communicate with struggling students and help them take action for improvement.

 

• Grant Potter, CTLT eLearning Coordinator

• Umesh Parshotam, Chemistry
• Erin Beveridge, Mathematics
• Jean Bowen, Mathematics
• Meghan Costello, Physics

This collaborative session will focus on the challenge of hands-on learning across labs, research experiences, design experiences, teaching, practicums, etc.

 

We will have an opening poll and a full group google doc brainstorm then facilitated breakout rooms, and full group report back. During the brainstorm, everyone can post challenges and strategies for the different disciplinary contexts listed. We are seeking facilitators for the break-out rooms.