May 11-26: GenAI in Teaching and Learning: A Two-Week Online Intensive Course
Through interactive activities, hands-on tool exploration, and peer collaboration, you’ll redesign elements of your own course to foster equity, accessibility, and meaningful learning. Whether you’re just getting started or already experimenting with AI in your classroom, this course will support you in developing ethical, inclusive, and innovative teaching practices.
Apr. 21: Using GenAI to Articulate Your Teaching Approach
This interactive online session explores how generative AI tools can support the reflective process of making your teaching values visible to your learners and your colleagues. Through discussion and guided experimentation, participants will gain practical strategies to express who they are as educators.
Feb. 26: Supporting and Scaffolding Students using Generative AI
This interactive session will explore strategies for guiding students in the responsible and effective use of AI tools across disciplines. We will discuss how to scaffold student learning with AI, from ideation and research to writing and problem-solving, while promoting academic integrity, critical thinking, and digital literacy. Participants will leave with practical examples, guiding questions, […]
Feb. 24: Rethinking Assessment in the Age of Generative AI
This session explores how educators can redesign assessment practices to reflect the new realities of AI-enhanced learning. Rather than focusing on detection or prohibition, we will look at how to create assessments that support critical thinking, transparency, and process-based learning. Participants will gain practical strategies for updating assessments to be both rigorous and relevant in […]
March 4 GenAI Maker Session: Developing Chatbots for Smarter Teaching: Enhancing Efficiency and Creativity
Explore how generative AI can enhance teaching workflows, streamline lesson planning, and enable the creation of customized chatbots for tailored educational tasks. Join this hands-on Maker Session to discover how generative AI tools can transform your teaching practices. Designed for UBC faculty, this session will guide participants through practical applications of AI, including improving efficiency […]
Oct 13@11 am BC Academic Integrity Day Panel: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools and Academic Integrity
Hosted this year by the University of British Columbia, BC Academic Integrity Day is a forum to connect, learn and share resources to inspire best practices in academic integrity and to advance scholarship and professionalism. We invite students, faculty, and practitioners from across higher education institutions in BC and beyond to attend and participate in […]
Oct 19@10 am Generative AI and Assessment Design
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the academic domain presents a complex interplay of opportunities and challenges. Generative AI (GenAI) has particular implications for pedagogical practices and academic integrity, especially in the design of academic assignments. This workshop seeks to explore the nuanced relationship between Generative AI and assignment design, highlighting both its constructive […]
Oct 24 @9am HESA’s AI Roundtable – Student perspectives
During this session, a panel of students from across the country, representing a wide range of perspectives, will share their opinions on GenAI in higher education.
The panel will be facilitated by our team at Higher Education Strategy Associates. We’ll share with you more information about our panelists in the upcoming weeks.
Oct 18@9:30 Reimagining Teaching & Learning Using Generative AI: Faculty Experiences
Current conversations on Generative AI have created space for academics to rethink pedagogical practices. Assessment has come up in discussion often and so has the challenges of maintaining academic integrity. In this session, instructors from across our campus discuss their use of generative AI tools for effective teaching and learning.
Oct 18@11:00 : ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools – Risks & Opportunities
Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking event that will leave you empowered with the knowledge to embrace generative AI responsibly and envision exciting possibilities for these technological advancements while prioritizing privacy and ethical considerations for our university.
Weekly Wednesday Studio Sessions 1-2pm
The Generative AI Studios are open for all faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan on teaching and learning topics related to the use of tools such as ChatGPT, Stability AI, Google Bard and others. Register for the clinic The sessions will be in an open-hours format, where the questions will be answered […]
Replay: Integrating Generative AI in Assignment Design
On August 14th, CTLT hosted a workshop on Integrating Generative AI in Assignment Design. This session aimed to assist faculty and students in creating assignments that promote academic integrity, creativity, critical thinking, and rigorous scholarship. Participants learned practical techniques for incorporating generative AI into assignments and were guided through the process to understand its implications on academic integrity. The workshop also explored how Generative AI can support teaching, including resource design and learner support. Video recordings, session slides, and additional resources from the workshop are available on this post.