Author: Stefan

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First Forays into Online Teaching

When I first started teaching as a graduate student, I saw potential in online tutorials to help my students learn some content at times when they were ready to learn it. It started with a tutorial on Bioinformatics, guiding students through the completion of an assignment.  We, the TAs, had...

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Moodle Course Site (UBC – ETEC 565A)

The main project in ETEC 565A involved designing a few modules of a course in an LMS of our choosing.  The idea was to put some of the things we had been learning into practice. I chose Moodle as my LMS because it’s a mature, well established platform, which I...

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Vygotskian Website (UBC – ETEC 512)

The Vygotskian.com website was produced as part of a group assignment for the ETEC 512 Conference on Learning.  The objective was to help us and our classmates learn more about one of the theories we were studying, as well as to explore the limits and constraints of applying educational theories...

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Cell Biology BB Site Comparison

One of the strengths of ETEC 565A was that we were able to put some of the learned material directly into practice in designing an LMS course site.  This has been helpful in “cementing” that knowledge and I have noticed that it has had a very clear, immediate impact on...