About Us
Welcome to this workshop on Blended Learning in a Changing Environment! We are looking forward to getting to know you and helping you make this shift to online learning using an online blended learning approach. This is the first time we are offering this workshop in this format and will learn a lot from you as we progress through this course design process together.
Charlyn Black
Dr. Black is a Professor and Associate Director, Education in UBC's School of Population and Public Health (SPPH). She began her career as a practising physician, but her interests in prevention took her into the field of public health.
Her research has focused on creating population-based information systems to understand patterns of health and health care, using administrative data to monitor the quality and effectiveness of medical care, and developing data-driven tools to improve health care delivery.
She was recruited to UBC in 2002 to serve as UBC's Centre for Health Policy and Research (CHSPR) Director, and served in that role from 2002 to 2007. In 2015, she was appointed as Associate Director of SPPH, where she works closely with program directors and education staff to deliver and improve SPPH's 6 graduate programs, medical residency program, and undergraduate offerings.
Lucas Wright
Lucas supports faculty and staff in integrating technology in their teaching and learning practice. He is an adult learning instructor with more than 15 years of experience teaching adults online, face-to-face and in blended contexts.
He has a keen interest in blended learning, open education and the role of learning portfolios in teaching and learning.
Lucas supports professional development programs at CTLT including the Instructional Skills workshop, Teaching in A Blended Learning Environment, the Learning Technology Hub and the edX Studio sessions.
Kari Grain
Kari Grain is a practitioner-scholar at the intersection of higher education, social justice, and community engagement. She currently works as an educational consultant in UBC’s CTLT, focusing on experiential education and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Grain is also a sessional instructor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education. She earned her PhD in UBC's Department of Educational Studies, supported by the Vanier CGS Scholarship, where her research focused on local community impacts of international service-learning in Uganda. Her research has been published in the Journal of Experiential Education, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and the Canadian Journal of Studies in Adult Education. She is also the Assistant Editor of the Wiley International Handbook of Service-Learning for Social Justice. For more information on her recent experiential education project, see blogs.ubc.ca/experiential.
Jocelyn Micallef
Jocelyn is a Learning Designer on the Curriculum and Course Services team within the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Jocelyn has a background in self-regulated learning and has worked collaboratively with faculty members, staff and students to support learning in higher education from the perspectives of educational development, student affairs and learning design.
In her recent work, she supports faculty members with learning design in the online environment. She is an experienced facilitator of professional development sessions, most recently as part of CTLT's Remote Teaching Institute and Online Teaching Program.
Jocelyn is excited to join the facilitation team for this program, and looks forward to learning from you!
Manuel Dias
Manuel is a Faculty Liaison with Science and is cross-appointed between the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and the Skylight Team in Science. He has more than nine years of experience in educational development, instructional and learning design where he supports faculty members develop face-to-face, blended learning and fully online experiences.
Manuel is a trained facilitator and facilitates various professional development programs at CTLT including the Instructional Skills Workshop, the Summer and Winter Institutes, as well as the Teaching in a Blended Learning Environment course. Manuel is part of the Learning Technology Hub and of the Edubytes editing committee.
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