Increasingly, faculty positions in both research and teaching streams require a statement of teaching philosophy as one component of a teaching portfolio or dossier. This workshop draws on research to introduce participants to some of the typical stylistic features of the teaching statement. Registration is required.
This workshop will introduce an assortment of digital tools for workflow and project management. Attendees will come away with a sense of which tools do what and when they might be useful.
Conference abstracts play a vital role in the communication of scholarly research. This workshop, designed for students submitting an abstract to the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) at UBC, introduces undergraduate researchers to two typical structural models of the abstract across disciplines, while accounting for disciplinary differences and community norms.
When preparing the dissertation or thesis for submission, students must follow strict formatting requirements. Research Commons instructors will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more.This workshop will also cover the basic resources that are available to help you with writing your thesis and dissertation.
When preparing the dissertation or thesis for submission, students must follow strict formatting requirements. Research Commons instructors will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more.
Open pedagogy often emphasize learners and instructors as co-creators of knowledge and educational resources that contribute to the public knowledge commons. This workshop will briefly introduce open pedagogy, explore considerations when asking students to work in the open, and showcase a diverse set of examples of open pedagogy in practice that use the UBC Wiki and UBC Blogs.