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TLEF Application Workshop
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UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) aims to support innovative and effective educational enhancements. This workshop will introduce the TLEF program and the priority focus areas. Successful examples from Forestry will be shared and tips for preparing a winning proposal will be given. There will be an open discussion and opportunity to brainstorm for ideas and synergies within Forestry.
Title: How to Put Together a Winning Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) Application
Date and Time: Thursday, June 16, 11:00
am -12:30 pm
Zoom registration here.
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Peer Reviews of Teaching Workshop
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This workshop will cover some of the governing principles for peer reviews. Differences and similarities between formative and summative reviews will be explained, and the steps of preparing for and performing a peer review of teaching will be outlined. This workshop should be of value both pre-tenure individuals and those planning on a post-tenure promotion review. It should also be of value to the mentoring committee that is responsible for the formative peer reviews of teaching in Forestry.
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 21, 10:00-11:30am
Location: CWAP 2916 or Zoom, coffee and snacks will be provided, please let
us know whether you will be joining in-person or online in the registration form.
Zoom registration here.
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On May 5th, a workshop discussing ungrading and alternative approaches to grading was co-hosted by the Faculties of
Forestry and Science. Examples of ungrading in the classroom were shared, as well as discussions surrounding types of
grading and the concept of ungrading. To learn more, please view the presentation slides and workshop recording, found
here.
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There are currently over 80 members in the UBC Ungrading and Alternative Grading Slack Community of Practice. Join us to
hear about our trials and tribulations, and also ask the community for questions and get feedback on your ideas here.
Ungrading has also been included as part of UBC’s strategic plan for transformative learning (more information can be found here).
Other articles on the topic of ungrading can be found here (anecdotal experience) and
here (academic paper).
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Esri will be releasing ArcGIS Pro 3.0. Some of the impacts will be breaking changes, more details can be found here. CBM laptops and UG labs may or may not be
updated to ArcGIS Pro 3.0 due to these breaking changes.
If ArcGIS Pro is not updated to version 3.0 for the 2022-23 academic year (will be updated for the 2023-24 academic year), please disable the option to download software from ArcGIS Online once 3.0 is available. Please also ensure that any links you share to documentation point to the correct version, not the latest version.
If ArcGIS Pro is updated to version 3.0,
the concurrent licensing server for the CBM program and UG labs will need to be revamped, which requires an outage. This will be followed by a seek and destroy mission to update all internal workstations to use ArcGIS Pro 3.0. This step may interrupt current research projects but we will minimize the impact as best as we can.
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Please update your Zoom client to the
latest available version (as of May 31, 2022 – 5.10.7).
A mandatory minimum client version of 5.10.0 will be implemented on all UBC licensed Zoom accounts on June
10, 2022 at 11:59pm. To avoid disruptions, we strongly recommend updating your mobile and desktop clients to the mandatory minimum version prior to June
10.
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Students as Partners Fund
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The Students as Partners fund provides grants to encourage student-faculty partnerships in undergraduate course redesign at UBC Vancouver. Faculty and student partners may receive up to $7,100
per project, as well as dedicated support. For further information or to apply, please visit the SAP site here. Please apply by June 15, 2022 at 3pm.
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Large TLEF Transformation Funding
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The Large TLEF Transformation Funding (up to $1 million) has produced a special call for hybrid and multi-access course
redesign (details here).
The Large TLEF Projects have a two-stage approval process with a letter of intent (see templates here) due 3 pm on July 14 and full proposals due Oct 13, 2022. A call for Small TLEF Innovation proposals (up to $50,000) will be announced in September
2022.
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