UBC’s recently launched First Year Seminar in Science, a small class experience focused on critical thinking and communication skills, has been awarded the 2013 Alan Blizzard Award by Canada’s Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
The award recognizes advances made in student engagement and learning outcomes driven by teamwork and co-operation between instructors, faculty members and administrators across departments.
Seminar in Science (SCIE113) was launched in 2010, and has since doubled in size. With only 27 students per class, SCIE113 engages students in ongoing conversations with their instructor, teaching assistants, peers and research scientists and focuses on active learning about the elements of a scientific approach, and how to communicate science. Four UBC faculties are now involved in the teaching or development of SCIE113.
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