| Title | Blending first-year Geography courses: provide students with flexibility while innovating multiple delivery and engagement methods |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2020 |
| Completion | 06/15/2022 |
| Project Summary | The project addresses a gap in courses being offered at UBC by focusing on blended Learning as an important innovative approach to teaching and learning. Blended elements within current courses taught at Vantage have been development and assessed, but there is a need to adapt these pilot models and offer them at a wider scale across first-year Geography courses. A blended approach also addresses the growing demand from students for regular and flexible offerings of Geography courses. The department is taking an active role in facilitating more blended and online courses, and GEOG 121 and GEOG 122 will be the pilots for the department. The implementation of this project is deeply rooted in work carried out by faculty over the past six years within the Geography courses at Vantage College, and through research carried out under SoEL, SoTL and most recently a CTLT Research Associates grant program. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2020/2021 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Siobhán McPhee |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 17,900 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Siobhán McPhee, Senior Instructor, Geography, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2021/2022 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Siobhán McPhee |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 6,800 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Siobhán McPhee, Associate Professor of Teaching, Geography, Faculty of Arts |
| Project Report | 2021-TLEF-Final-Report-McPhee-WEB.pdf |
| Project Outcomes | The Conversation: What is ‘blended learning’ and how can it benefit post-secondary students? |