Science Online Teaching 2020
Getting started with this course
- A hub where faculty members can access a curation of useful resources, recommendations, and examples related to moving their courses online
- A snapshot of the experiences, approaches, and challenges of Science instructors who taught courses this summer
- Brief guidance on design considerations to get people started/refreshed in terms of teaching online and the available UBC-supported technology and guides
- Sample Canvas materials and templates, along with Canvas design considerations
- A discussion forum (see Piazza link in the left navigation) for all of you and the Skylight team to share your plans and questions as your courses evolve
- A home for details, recordings, and resources from Skylight workshops and drop-in sessions, along with links to CTLT workshops
The course consists of three modules which explore:
1. Planning and implementing your course (click to expand)
2. Canvas Design Considerations (click to expand)
3. Canvas Templates and Examples (click to expand)
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Drop-In Support
Skylight team members will be at the sessions to provide Science faculty with an unstructured space to ask questions, to practice using learning technologies, and to discuss your plans for teaching this winter. The sessions are held on Zoom, you can join from the links below.
Tuesday 10AM-11:30AM. Join here: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/95339705718?pwd=eEVwY08rZ1lEN0RhRVo0WHdFNUxOdz09
Science Tech Rovers will be at these sessions to support Science faculty with your questions related to specific learning technologies. The sessions take place at the following link .
See https://skylight.science.ubc.ca/lt/workshops for up-to-date information regarding these drop-in sessions and to learn more about other Skylight-LT and Central LT workshops.
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Workshops
Skylight Online Teaching Series
Online Learning: A UBC Science student panel (November 2020)
Facilitator: Matthew (Matt) Coles, Skylight
In this panel discussion, we'll hear from a variety of UBC Science students about their experiences with online learning. Join us to ask questions as the students shed light on what it's like to learn from home.
All about breakout rooms in remote teaching (October 2020)
Presenters: Matthew (Matt) Coles and Alice Campbell, Skylight
Breakout rooms have become ubiquitous in remote teaching, and we’re figuring out best practices for using them as we go along. Rather than a traditional presentation, we'll work together to discuss breakout rooms in remote teaching: their benefits, their drawbacks, and how to best use them to support learning. We will have a chance to share experience as well as swap tips and tricks. We'll have technical staff on hand for advice but we'll keep the focus on pedagogy in the context of science classes. We look forward to learning from each other’s experiences and collectively generating some best practices for everyone’s benefit.
Successful Implementation of Two-Stage Exams in a Remote-Teaching Environment (September 2020)
Presenters: Jaclyn J. Stewart (Chem, CTLT) and Jay Wickenden (Chem)
Two-stage exams (individual and group) have been successfully implemented across UBC Science for several years. After the outbreak of COVID-19, and with classes moving to a temporary online environment, we were interested in exploring the operation of such exams in an exclusively online setting.
We believe it is imperative to include students as partners in course design, especially during the pandemic when we are required to pivot to remote instruction with little lead time. To include the student voice in our implementation, we used an action-research methodological approach to explore the student experience of two organic chemistry two-stage midterm exams. We also used online surveys to uncover the student experience before and after each exam, and elicited suggestions for improvements over the term.
In this presentation, we will share some of our findings and recommendations for effective, and well-run online two-stage exams. We will discuss open-book and open-internet exams, group formation procedures, and communication methods that are key to a smooth implementation. By the end of this session, you will feel confident about how to implement two-stage exams in your course this term.
Video Recording: Successful Implementation of Two-Stage Exams in a Remote-Teaching Environment
Skylight Summer Workshops
Roundtable Discussion: What I Did in My Online Summer Course - July 16, 2020, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Science faculty members (Anka Lekhi, Georg Rieger, Meghan Allen, Jennifer Klenz, and Karen Smith) who taught courses this summer shared how they designed their lectures, assessments, and out-of-class activities in their accelerated online courses. Within breakout rooms, people had the opportunity to ask more direct questions to the instructors and gain feedback on your own planning.
You can access the recording, slides, and resources from the session at the following links:
- Recording: "Skylight Workshop - What I Did in My Online Summer Course" in the Media Gallery
- Faculty member presentations
- Online two-stage exam poster
- Skylight Resources
Academic Integrity and Inclusive Practices in Online Science Courses - July 30, 2020, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Within this session, we explored academic integrity in online courses and provided examples of how this issue has been approached by Science faculty. People also had an opportunity to share their own strategies and concerns within breakout groups.
You can access the recording, slides, and resources from the session at the following links:
Feel free to reach out to Ashley Welsh (ashley.welsh@ubc.ca) if you want to chat more about this topic.
Teaching in an Online Setting - Presentation by Melissa Lee (STAT) at UBC Jupyter Days 2020
In this presentation, Melissa Lee (STAT) discusses the transition of an introductory data science course online for the Summer 2020 term. Melissa shares the strategies used, challenges faced, and lessons learned from the experience and reviews some feedback from student surveys.
You can access the recording and slides at the following links:
CTLT Summer Workshops
The CTLT will be offering a number of workshops related to teaching online. You can learn more about and register for the events on their Events website or via the Events Calendar.
Past Workshops
Skylight ran workshops on Crowdmark and Gradescope in late March, you can find the recordings on the Skylight LT workshops page.
The CTLT ran a Remote Teaching Institute in May 2020 and video recordings, presentation slides, and resources from the workshops can be found on their wiki site. The workshops covered topics such as:
- Examples and suggestions for moving your course from F2F to online
- Sample canvas course templates
- Centring Indigenous perspectives in online spaces
- Building online assessments to minimize academic misconduct
- Facilitating effective asynchronous online discussions in Canvas
- Supporting student well-being in an online learning environment
- Use, copyright, and licensing of Open Education Resources (OER)
- Sessions on specific tools, including: Canvas, Collaborate Ultra, Proctorio, Zoom, UBC Wiki, and social media
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