Dongwook Yoon
Associate Professor, Computer Science yoon [at] cs.ubc.ca
Ali Reza Ladak
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences ali.ladak [at] ubc.ca
Zoë Soon
Associate Professor of Teaching, Biology zoeanne.soon [at] ubc.ca
Joss Ives
Associate Professor of Teaching, Physics and Astronomy joss.ives [at] ubc.ca
EMPHASize: developing, implementing and evaluating online curriculum modules for health professional programs
Principal Investigator: Sally Stewart, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Health and Exercise Sciences/Nursing Co-investigators: Dr. Maya Libben, Associate Professor, Psychology; Jamie Piercy, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychology Project description The EMPHASize Project; developing, implementing and evaluating online curriculum modules for health professions’ programs to fill a knowledge gap in psychological and physiological implications of […]
Connecting the Development of Interdisciplinary Skills and Perspectives on Power, Privilege, and Positionality in Sustainability Education
Principal Investigator: Natalie Forssman, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Community, Culture and Global Studies Project description The new Bachelor of Sustainability (B.Sust.) degree at UBC Okanagan endeavours to equip students with skills to work effectively across disciplines to confront sustainability challenges. This study will connect and track the development interdisciplinary skills alongside perspectives on power, privilege, […]
A curricular evaluation of the Foundations for Inclusive and Respectful Engagement (FIRE) modules
Principal Investigator: Rishma Chooniedass, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Health and Social Development Project description The Foundations for Inclusive and Respectful Engagement (FIRE) project was developed to provide low-barrier and fundamental-level equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) e-learning modules that can be implemented in undergraduate courses across disciplines. Pilot testing found the modules to be applicable and […]
Social Justice Storytelling and Reparative Histories of Photography: An Experiment in Place-Based and Community-Engaged Learning
Principal Investigator: Jillian Lerner, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Art History, Visual Art and Theory Project description Generating pedagogical engagements with historical photographs, this project aims to foster cultural humility and relational accountability. It investigates place-based and community-engaged approaches to teaching and learning, in activities that center social justice storytelling and reparative histories of photography. Each […]
Student perspectives on engagement in a distributed learning program
Principal Investigator: Elly Park, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Occupational science and occupational therapy Project description Distributed learning (also called multi-campus learning) has rapidly grown in the past decade. As such, the efficacy of traditional teaching methods and the impact on student learning needs to be investigated. In particular, the department of Occupational Science and Occupational […]
Does a skills inventory, as a formative assessment process, enhance occupational therapy (OT) students’ clinical skill acquisition, confidence and reflexive learning?
Principal Investigator: Jay MacDonald, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Project description Clinical skills courses in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (OSOT) aim to equip OT students with the basic skills required for entry to clinical practice. The current ‘gold standard’ for practical skills evaluation in clinical programs is […]