Schedule at a glance
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Check in, coffee, mingling | Golden Jubilee Room |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Welcome and Warm Up | Golden Jubilee Room |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Keynote Speaker: Deb Butler | Golden Jubilee Room |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Movement Break | Golden Jubilee Room |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm | Concurrent Sessions: Roundtable Discussions |
Golden Jubilee Room IKBLC 261 IKBLC 182 |
| 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch and Networking | Golden Jubilee Room |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions: Presentations |
Golden Jubilee Room IKBLC 261 IKBLC 182 IKBLC 155 |
| 2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Community Closing Plenary: Simon Bates | Golden Jubilee Room |
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Deborah Butler, Faculty of Education, UBC
Concurrent Sessions
11:15 am – 12:45pm | Roundtable Discussions
Explore a range of issues and ideas through small-group discussion with your colleagues. In each room there will be a series of short 5-minute presentations of a topic and discussion question followed by 3 rounds of 20-minute table discussions.
IKBLC 261
- UBC Jump Start: What Happened in 2018?
- Society & You: Recognizing Disciplinary Lens in Your Daily Life
- IN/Relation: Educational Resources for International Students Learning Indigenous Contexts and Histories at UBC
- Supporting Student Wellbeing Using Online Resources
Golden Jubilee Room
- Building Community with First Year Students Beyond the Classroom
- Teaching Practices and Student Wellbeing
- Using Mastermind Groups to Build Capacity in the First Year Experience
- Defining Microbarriers
IKBLC 182 (Victoria Learning Theatre)
- Bug Bounty: Rewarding Student Copyediting of Open Source Text
- Indigenous Initiatives Learning Community: Collaboration & Reciprocity
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in First Year Experience
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Presentations
Find out what first-year educators across our campus have been up to in terms of SOTL research, curriculum and pedagogy. In each room, one of the conference themes will be explored in-depth through a range of 10-minute presentations and a facilitated 20-minute large-group discussion.
IKBLC 261: Inclusive Excellence
- Plagiarism Revisited: A Culturally-Sensitive Approach to Academic "Dishonesty"
- First-Year Students' Encounter with Trans Studies Research
- The Historical Imagination: Rethinking First Year History Curricula at Vantage College
- Incorporating Universal Design for Learning principles, accessibility guidelines, and wellness principles into online courses and course materials: A checklist for instructors and course designers
IKBLC 182: Innovative Pedagogies
- Automating Creative, Peer-reviewed Projects to Enhance Motivation in a Very Large First Year Course
- Groups, Boosts, and Chats: the Canvas-based ePortfolio as Meta-cognitive Social Media Simulator and Group-Networking Tool
- Taking up Metalanguage: Effectiveness of ComPAIR Student Feedback in Peer Review
- Experiments Building Community Within a Blended Classroom
Golden Jubilee Room: Learning as Process
- Substituting midterm exams with short weekly quizzes in biology: benefits and considerations for instructors and students.
- Four-way high-fives during exams: Adding a group phase to provide immediate feedback and increase enjoyment
- Using Self-Reflection Activities to Aid Students' Transition into University Learning Environments: A Case Study with UBC's Science One Program
- Integrating Primary and Secondary Source Research: A Scaffolded Approach
IKBLC 155: Theory ↔ Practice
- Mental Health Literacy: From Theory to Practice
- Understanding first-year students' transition to university studies: Exploring changes in stress, hope, belonging, and learning-related beliefs
- Piloting an Academic Scholars Program in a First Year Biology Course
- Fostering Success: Embedding Wellbeing Principles into the First-Year Curriculum
Community Closing Plenary: featuring Simon Bates, UBC's Associate Provost, Teaching and Learning