Funded Projects

ALT-2040 Fund Projects, 2021
Committing to a Culture Of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Indigenous Land-based Writing and Pedagogy Guide for Students and Instructors
ALT-2040 Fund Projects, 2020
Active Computational Media Composition Toolkit
Developing Personalized, Expandable Learning Modules for CS1 Programming
On-Demand Student Support with Virtual Labs and Help Desk
Building Intercultural Capacity through World Literature
Certificate and Minor in Communications and Rhetoric (CORH)
Integrated Flexible Learning Model for Mechatronics & Industry 4.0 Certifications
Re-envisioning Human Kinetics
ALT Fund Projects, 2019
Modularisation of APSC180 Statics
Indigenous Teaching and Learning in the English Classroom
Creating Flexible Online Learning Modules to Support Information Literacy Instruction
Assimilation of Management and Health: Collaborative On-Line Curriculum for Conceptualizing Inter-Professionalism
ALT Fund Projects, 2018
Students! Choose Your Own Pathway
Aboriginal Engagement in the Applied Science Curriculum
Developing Learning Modules to Support Personalized Pathways
ALT Fund Projects, 2017
UBCO Design Thinking Hub
Digital Media Flexible Learning Modules
ALT Fund Projects, 2016
Re-envisioning Second Year Biology at UBC (2YB@UBC)
Project Management Training for Undergraduate and Graduate Students at UBCO
The Use of 3D Imaging and Rapid Prototyping in Undergraduate Education
Introduction to Engineering I2E
Flexible and Flipped Delivery Modules for First-Year Chemistry

Re-envisioning Second Year Biology at UBC (2YB@UBC)

Lead 

Michael Deyholos, Professor and Head, Biology, Unit 2, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Collaborators

  • Sunita Chowrira, Senior Instructor, Botany/Biology, UBC Vancouver Campus
  • Matthew Nelson, Lecturer, Biology, Unit 2, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
  • Richard Plunkett, Instructor, Biology, Unit 2, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
  • Robin Young, Lecturer, Botany/Biology, UBC Vancouver Campus

Summary

BIOL 200 (Cell Biology) is representative of a major gap in undergraduate science education: second-year courses tend to have very large enrolments, but lack the lab components that enhance first-year courses. This is especially true in molecular/cellular biology, due to the high cost of lab materials. Thus, traditional lectures are the main delivery format for second-year courses. We propose to develop new learning objects and, at UBC-O, implement a blended course delivery system for BIOL 200. The 160 min/week of traditional lectures will be replaced with on-line learning modules (customized animations, videos, readings, and assessments), which will be complemented by 80 min/week of classroom activities centered on team-based learning (quizzes, case studies, computer simulations) and live demonstrations. This partially flipped approach will improve student outcomes, improve efficiency of course delivery, and provide a model for flexible, blended learning in other second-year science courses at UBC.