Examining the impact of online branching community pharmacy case (OBCPC) on pharmacy student attitudes of community practice
Principal Investigators: Brie Weir, Manager, Educational Technology and Ali Reza Ladak, Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice, Office of Educational Technology (OETLD) and Integration Activities Project description The Online Branching Community Pharmacy Case (OBCPC) (https://blogs.ubc.ca/onlinebranchingcommunitypharmacycase/), a virtual gaming scenario (VSG), was deployed to 224-year 1 (PY1) entry-to-practice PharmD students offering them an opportunity in their first semester to […]
Debunking the misconception of genetic essentialism – a pre/post study of first year biology students’ beliefs
Principal Investigator: Pam Kalas, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Zoology Project description The current proposal is a continuation of a larger project dedicated to develop and evaluate new classroom activities to teach genetics. The goal of these new activities is to emphasize the multifactorial nature of inherited traits while highlighting fallacies of genetic determinism. […]
Assessing the Impact of an “Anti-Racist Toolkit for the Writing Classroom”
Principal Investigator: Laila Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Teaching, The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Project description Five faculty members in Writing, Research, and Discourse Studies (WRDS) recently developed the “Anti-Racist Toolkit for the Writing Classroom,” a 38pg guide that includes links, citations, reflective questions, and action items. The toolkit responds to a gap in […]
Instructors’ Perception of Enablers and Barriers to Effective Course Delivery in a Distributed Learning Environment
Principal Investigator: David Anekwe, Assistant Professor of Teaching / Academic Site Lead Master of Physical Therapy North, Master of Physical Therapy Project description This is a quality improvement project aimed at extracting the perceived enablers and barriers to effective course delivery in a distributed learning environment from instructors teaching at the UBC Master of Physical […]
Teacher candidates’ understandings of the relevance of relatedness/belongingness across varied class sizes
Principal Investigator: Surita Jhangiani, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology & Special Education Project description Teacher-student relationships are fundamental. Supportive learning contexts foster the satisfaction of students’ need for relatedness; that is, feeling cared for and socially connected with others. Despite its significance, teacher candidates’ perceptions of relatedness have yet to […]
Improving Dental Students’ Teamwork and Communication Skills through Anonymous Peer Feedback
Principal Investigator: PJ Murphy, Lecturer, Department of Oral Biological Medical Sciences Project description This project aims to improve teamwork and communication skills in dental students by using iPeer – an anonymous peer review platform for assessment of classmates’ performance and contributions in group assignments and class presentations. Small group learning and classroom presentations allow students […]
Educational Board Games on Migration/Indigeneity
Principal Investigator: Biz Nijdam, Lecturer, Department of Central Eastern and Northern European Studies & Centre for Migration Studies Project description This project explores the capacity and efficacy of board games in teaching about Indigenous issues, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the tensions that emerge between Indigenous sovereignty and contemporary immigration/migration. Research questions
Moving from content and memorization, to critical thinking and applied learning: an experiment in blended learning in the traditional Biochemistry classroom
Principal Investigator: Eden Fussner-Dupas, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Project description Biochemistry is a content-heavy, dense discipline. Learning the intricate details of an ever-advancing understanding of biochemical reactions, pathways and mechanisms that drives biology; is increasingly more challenging within the conventional didactic course format. Emerging evidence supports delivering information-dense STEM […]
Does offering students a choice of assessment help them learn?
Principal Investigator: Roland Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Physical Therapy Project description In 2022, I introduced the option of giving students a choice of assessment for the Pain Science content. After the module, I sent out a brief survey to try and understand why students picked their specific assessment method. For this project, […]
Literacy Narrative: An Essential Tool to Raise Students’ Genre Awareness
Principal Investigator: Nazih El-Bezre, Lecturer, The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Project description Recent studies have pointed out that online learning during Covid-19 has had a negative impact on first year university students’ reflective thinking (e.g., Farahian et al., 2021). They have also suggested that these students’ reflective writing tends to be superficial. In […]