Steven Barnes wins prestigious national teaching award
Steven Barnes received a 2019 3M National Teaching Fellow Award for his leadership in enhancing post-secondary teaching excellence and for superlative undergraduate teaching.
UBC Psychology faculty awarded UBC's 2015 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund
Please join us in congratulating our faculty who have received UBC’s 2015 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) towards their work in supporting and encouraging innovation in a teaching and learning environment. Professors Peter Graf and Catherine Rawn, have received funding towards their project ‘Fostering Peer Learning & Assessment Skill’. This project will create and […]
UBC Psychology prof. Catherine Rawn is using social media to build a course
UBC Psychology Senior Instructor Catherine Rawn is developing a course called the Psychology of Social Media, which she will teach as Psyc 325 in January 2016. This course is currently listed as a developmental course, but will emphasize themes of social and personality psychology. She has already begun brainstorming and you’re invited to participate in […]
UBC Psychology's Sunaina Assanand's five dos and don’ts for new students
As a senior instructor in UBC’s Dept. of Psychology, Sunaina Assanand has logged countless hours in classrooms. Lecturing to an average class size of 200 to 250 students, she’s also seen her fair share of classroom antics. To better help first-year university students achieve success, Assanand, now an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts, […]
ANIMATED LEARNING
UBC psychology and neuroscience instructor Steven Barnes is helping students get inside the brain by using stop-motion animation, videos and a flipped classroom approach to teaching and learning.
Using new media in the classroom to engage and interact with students
It’s not surprising that an artist would use stop-motion animation as an educational tool. Although he teaches science, Steven Barnes is an active artist and he strives to combine art and science in his work. Explaining content using different forms of digital media is new for science education and this exciting new project brings Barnes’ background as […]