New Faculty Orientation Guide

The New Faculty Orientation Guide is intended to be a starting point—a helpful collection of materials of interest to new faculty in their first year of teaching at UBC. Topics include:

  • understanding who your learners are
  • challenges you and your learners may face
  • considerations for the first day of class
  • assessing learning and giving feedback
  • pedagogical approaches with learning technology tools and much more

Download the New Faculty Orientation Guide.


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