Teaching as a 21st Century Educator: what do we need and how do we get there?
Friday, April 26, 2019
Cliff Fielding Research & Innovation Building
There are many different factors and forces acting to change the landscape of 21st century higher education. From our perspective as educators, what are the skills, habits and attitudes that we need in order to not just survive in this changing landscape, but to thrive? And as institutions, what support and activities will we need to have in place, in order to empower our faculty to navigate this landscape? In this keynote, using technology as one example of a driver that is bringing rapid change, I will present a framework for empowering 21st Century educators, and why I believe it remains a relevant blueprint for thinking about faculty development and institutional support to enable such development. Drawing on my own recent experiences at UBC, I will highlight a number of examples of ways in which institutions can build support to realize the development, refinement and support of these capabilities amongst faculty and staff.
Simon Bates M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D.
Associate Provost, Teaching and Learning
Professor of Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Simon Bates is Associate Provost, Teaching and Learning at UBC, with leadership responsibility for teaching, learning and technology support to faculty and departments creating credit and non-credit learning opportunities spanning areas of undergraduate, graduate and lifelong learning at UBC. The portfolio also contributes to new program approval and quality assurance processes overseen by the office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic.
He is also a tenured Professor of Teaching in the Physics and Astronomy department. As a passionate champion of evidence-based and technology-enhanced approaches, Simon continues to teach an introductory physics courses, co-teaching with a different faculty colleague each year. Recent innovations in these courses have been the introduction of student-generated learning and assessment content, and use of open educational resources as digital content. He has received teaching awards from both the University of Edinburgh (2006, 2011) and UBC (2016).
Prior to his current appointment, Simon served as Academic Director of UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, a central academic support unit of ~75 FTE, where he oversaw the provision of academic support services to the teaching and learning community.
simon.bates@ubc.ca
@simonpbates
https://sites.google.com/site/simonpbates/