Improving student well-being in Biology lab assessments: An investigation of modifying ungrading to reduce student stress
Project Lead: Stella Lee, Zoology Project description Ungrading offers students the opportunity to separate their learning from a letter grade and be more receptive to the written feedback that helps to further improve their understanding and performance. However, it can potentially pose an additional burden on the students that induces unintentional stress and anxiety (see […]
Impacts of a Hybrid Model for Cross-Disciplinary Cross-Institutional Student Collaboration
Project Lead: Gabrielle Lam, School of Biomedical Engineering Project description This study explores students’ development of collaborative skills and their attitudes towards cross-disciplinary collaboration, as they engage in cross-disciplinary project teams. Although the ability to collaborate with others who have vastly different expertise is crucial in the evolving workplace, post-secondary educational programs offer limited opportunities […]
Impact of gender on students engineering roles and identity during first co-op work experiences
Project Lead: Jenna Usprech, Faculty of Applied Science and Faculty of Medicine Project description Engineering training popularly focuses on technical skills development, such as problem solving, design, and prototyping. However, engineering practice has been characterized in literature as being far more heterogeneous, with a much larger share of non-technical/social skills ensuring engineering project success. Examples […]
GLOW-UP: Gamifying Learning Objectives Within Undergraduate Pedagogies
Project Lead: Sana Shahram, School of Nursing, UBCO Project description This SoTL project seeks to implement a novel approach to gamification and collective learning practices into an introductory-level undergraduate course in Health and Exercise Sciences. This project will explore the efficacy of gamification as measured by students’ class attendance, critical engagement with topics, and mastery […]
Exploring the Role of AI-Generated Patient Cases in Pharmacy Education: Educator and Student Perspectives
Project Leads: Jamie Yuen and Jocelyn Micallef, Pharmaceutical Sciences Project description Case-based learning (CBL) and simulations offer valuable opportunities for pharmacy students to apply their learnings to real-practice and develop patient care skills. Given the time and skill required to create effective and authentic cases, this project will explore the role of generative artificial intelligence […]
Experience in Simulation Lab compared to Simulation Clinic in Restorative Dentistry Teaching: did this transition affect students’ performance?
Project Lead: Luana Carvalho, Dentistry Project description This project aims to assess the impact of transitioning from clinic simulation to the simulation lab on students’ and instructors’ experiences in Restorative Dentistry preclinical settings. Through surveys and evaluations of clinical outcomes, we seek to understand how this shift may influence students’ performance, self-assessment skills, ergonomics, and […]
Evaluation of Nurse 180 – Stress and Strategies to Promote Wellbeing
Project Lead: Ranjit K. Dhari, School of Nursing Project description With the aim of supporting students at UBC, faculty members from the School of Nursing designed a first-year undergraduate course entitled ‘NURS180: Stress and Strategies to Promote Well Being’. This course introduces “students from any program of study to foundational knowledge related to stress, stressors, […]
Evaluating the Integration of the new Social Entrepreneurial Competency into the Dental Hygiene Degree Program (DHDP) Curriculum
Project Lead: Salima Alibhai, Dental Hygiene (Oral Biological & Medical Sciences) Project Description The DHDP has recently completed a curriculum renewal process from which a new Social Entrepreneurship & Leadership (SEL) course was developed and implemented in the 2023W academic year. This new SEL course is a required 4th-year course and is the first of […]