What do First-Year Students Need? Assessing Students’ Transition to University Studies to Enhance the First-Year Experience in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Project Investigator(s): Candice Rideout, Instructor, Food, Nutrition and Health; Will Valley – Instructor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems; Christine Scaman, Associate Professor and Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Land and Food Systems; Rickey Yada – Professor and Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems Project Description Preliminary data indicates students in the Faculty of […]
From Pillar to Posts: An Evidence-Based Analysis of Differences and Complementarities between the Traditional Term Paper and Student Blogs
Project Investigator(s): Robert MA Crawford, Instructor, Department of Political Science Project Description A sampling of undergraduate course outlines today reflects increased experimentation with new genres of writing across academic fields. Yet the large term essay remains a largely unquestioned pillar of rigorous academic writing. This project will undertake comparative analysis of student blogs and a […]
Building Bridges between Health and Politics: a New Course at UBC
Project Investigator(s): Farah Shroff, Instructor, Department of Political Science Project Description The socio-political determinants of health are rooted in income and social equity. This course will encourage Political Science students to see themselves as potentially playing a role as social actors in ameliorating global public health. The research question is linked to students’ (shifting) perspectives […]
The Evaluation of Team-Based Learning in a Large Environmental Chemistry Class
Project Investigator(s): Anka Lekhi, Instructor, Department of Chemistry Project Description In Fall 2016, we developed course materials to facilitate Team-based Learning (TBL) in Chemistry 301. Students in a TBL class engage with a case study in pre-assigned teams of 4-6. Teams are required to make a decision about the case using information from pre-reading assignments […]
Pilot Testing of an Online Nutrition Discussion Forum for the MD Undergraduate Program (MDUP) and Development of a Strategy to Measure its Impact on Medical Student Outcomes
Project Investigator(s): Linda Casey, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics Project Description We are developing an on-line discussion forum to provide an opportunity for medical students to explore the relationships between nutrition and health, and consider nutrition-related problems and questions that may arise in patient care. At designated points throughout the first-year curriculum, a nutrition-focused […]
Improving Real-Time Student Engagement During Large-Class Lectures Using an Online Learning Platform
Project Investigator(s): David Massaro, Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice Project Description Over the past year, I have incorporated an online learning platform (ie. Socrative Pro) to my large class lectures and used it to create a real-time “backchannel” for students to post their questions and comments during my lectures after which I input my responses and post […]
Flexible learning student engagement: a case study
Project Investigator(s): Phaedra Burke, Sessional lecturer, Sauder School of Business Project Description The intent of this research is to improve (or strengthen) student engagement in a Flexible Learning course by understanding student interest and motivation in learning. The project will involve quantitative data from questionnaires (students’ background, their interest and motivation), qualitative data from interviews, […]
Complementarity of teaching approaches in Soil Science Education: Instructor and student perspectives
Project Investigator(s): Sandra Brown, Instructor, Applied Biology Project Description Currently three upper level soil science courses in the Applied Biology program are taught using distinct instructional approaches: direct instruction, problem based learning and experiential learning. This project aims to evaluate the complementarity of these courses as a package from both instructor and student perspectives, to answer […]
“Paying Attention to Attention”: Exploring the Integration of Games in a Popular Culture Course to Enhance the Quality of the Student Learning Experience
Project Investigator(s): Janice Stewart, Senior Instructor, Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Project Description This project explores the integration of gaming as a pedagogical tool in a Popular Culture undergraduate course that is taught in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. In “Paying Attention to […]
Building a Participatory Participation Model for Discussion Based Courses
Project Investigator(s): Kristen Walker, Instructor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems Project Description University discussion-based courses often involve a participation component, including participation evaluation. However, many issues arise in how best to objectively and effectively assess participation. Students often perceive the evaluation process of participation as subjective and dependent on the relationship between the instructor and […]