May 8, 2025
The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF, established at UBC Vancouver in 1991) and Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund (ALT-2040, established as the ALT Fund in 2015 at UBC Okanagan) serve as innovation engines for improving the learning experience for UBC students and advancing innovative teaching practices at UBC and beyond. The TLEF and ALT-2040 Showcase will celebrate the creative work of project teams and showcase a diverse range projects from both UBCV and UBCO. Many of these innovative projects can be found at this year’s TLEF and ALT-2040 Virtual Showcase at celebratelearning.ubc.ca/tlef-showcase.
10:05-10:30
| Breakout Room | Project Fund | Poster Title | Project Lead(s)/Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TLEF | We’re Only Human – Artificial Intelligence, Academic Integrity, & Writing | Laurie McNeill; Andrew Owen; Taiyebah Hussain |
| 2 | ALT-2040 | Experiential learning through Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) | Vikas Menghwani; Kailee Fawcett |
| 3 | TLEF | OER Textbook: Speaking and Writing Physics 101: The Language of Solving First-year Physics Problems | Alfredo Ferreira; Michael Sekatchev |
| 4 | TLEF | Development of a Laboratory Foundations Event | Anka Lekhi |
| 5 | TLEF | Changing Course: Hybrid Opportunities for students in French, Hispanic and Italian Programs | Luisa Canuto; Brianne Orr-Álvarez; Jennifer Nagtegaal |
| 6 | TLEF | Development of a New Case Study Incorporating Themes of Indigenous Engagement and Consultation in a Core First Year Engineering Course | Jonathan Nakane |
| 7 | TLEF | Environmental Science Curriculum Renewal | Tara Ivanochko; Jason Young |
10:35-11:00
| Breakout Room | Project Fund | Poster Title | Project Lead(s)/Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALT-2040 | Photogrammetry as a tool to build 3D virtual resources | Ken Savage |
| 2 | TLEF | Hybrid Learning in the PharmD program (HIPP) | Kerry Wilbur; Arkin Au; Ginette Vallée; Leonie Harper |
| 3 | TLEF | Preparing for an Automated Future: Building Automation Resilience in Computer and Data Science Education | Dongwook Yoon |
| 4 | TLEF | Dental Ethics and DEI: Aligning Clinical Ethics with DEI Competencies | Philip D. Crowell; Shimae Soheilipour |
| 5 | TLEF | CPSLab: Design and Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems using a Safety-First Approach | Sathish Gopalakrishnan |
| 6 | TLEF | Implementing Climate & Sustainability Education in Occupational Therapy Programs | Ben Mortenson; Farrukh Chishtie |
| 7 | TLEF | Plom: human assessment of handwritten work at scale | Colin Macdonald |
11:05-11:30
| Breakout Room | Project Fund | Poster Title | Project Lead(s)/Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALT-2040 | HelpMe: Multi-Channel Student Support with AI Chatbots | Ramon Lawrence |
| 2 | TLEF | Climate Justice informed Community Engagement | Hannah Wittman; Kshamta Hunter; Mohini Singh |
| 3 | TLEF | Promoting 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Pharmacy Education: Progress Updates | Tristan Lai; Alex Tang; Vince Taylor |
| 4 | TLEF | Layered Learning: Building Critical Community Capacity for Teaching Medical Students | Heather Buckley; Minori Kato-Hopkins; Sharon Doucet |
| 5 | TLEF | Making Research Accessible Initiative Knowledge Exchange Project: A Cross-Collaboration between the Coordinated Arts Program, School of Information Science, and School of Media Studies | Evan Mauro; Kirby Manià; Avneet Dhillon |
| 6 | TLEF | Fabrication of 3D-printed Patient-specific Jaw Models to Enhance Surgical Training Skills at the UBC Faculty of Dentistry | Rana Tarzemany; Leila Gholami |
11:35-12:00
| Breakout Room | Project Fund | Poster Title | Project Lead(s)/Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALT-2040 | Re-envisioning Graduate Supervision at UBC Okanagan | Paul Shipley; Dimuth Gamage |
| 2 | ALT-2040 | Developing a Textbook for Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences | Paul Tsopméné |
| 3 | TLEF | Rural and Remote Teacher Education Program: An Innovative Hybrid Approach | Leyton Schnellert; Terry Taylor; Jamilee Baroud; Amy Caesar |
| 4 | TLEF | Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Initiative: Year 3 | Laura Lukes; Silvia Mazabel; Sarah Bean Sherman; Brett Gilley |
| 5 | TLEF | The BRAIN Project – Building Resources and Accessibility in Neurology for Practical Learning | Larry Leung; Morgan Grey; Soeun Chang |
| 6 | TLEF | Active learning in passive environments: Creating open interactive formative assessment opportunities to enhance student learning | Simon Lolliot |
Not presenting
| Project Fund | Poster Title | Project Lead(s)/Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| TLEF | HealtheSteps – Providing UBC Students with Curriculum to Support their Skills in Lifestyle Counseling for Prevention of Chronic Disease | Robert J. Petrella |
| TLEF | OER Videos from the Field: Creating Teaching Resources through Student Led Expert Interviews | Silvia Bartolic |
| TLEF | Modernizing Traditional French Grammar Courses: Towards an Active, Descriptive, and Inclusive Approach for Advanced Students | Isabelle Delage-Béland |
| TLEF | Improving student learning and experience through curriculum mapping | Carolyn McEwen |
| ALT-2040 | Implementation of a Clinical Exercise Physiologist Pathway | Jasmin Ma |
| TLEF | Opening Up Tort Law | Samuel Beswick |
| TLEF | IMPPaCT Project – Implementing Pharmacy Point of Care Testing | Jane Xia |
| TLEF | MAKING CONNECTIONS: Co-creating an undergraduate biodiversity science course | Jackie Chambers |