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Warren Code, MSc, PhD
Associate Director, Special Initiatives

Warren leads, advises and assists in planning, research/evaluation and management for a range of teaching and learning projects across the Faculty of Science, with a particular focus on the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and related UBC initiatives. Warren is responsible for advising and professional development for department-based teaching and learning fellows, evaluating impact on students and faculty, and connecting (via correspondence and on-campus visits) with people from UBC and other institutions interested in the accomplishments in teaching and learning within the Faculty of Science.

Alice Campbell, MA, MET
Science Education Specialist (SES)

Alice provides pedagogical support to faculty to enhance their teaching and learning practices in face-to-face, blended and online learning environments. She works collaboratively with faculty to design and implement evaluation tools to help inform pedagogical decisions, advises on instructional design best practices, and supports faculty in developing well-aligned teaching and classroom assessment materials.

Jaclyn Dee
Science Education Specialist (SES)

Jaclyn’s work as a Science Education Specialist in the Department of Zoology is guided by the principle that educators and students, at every stage in their development, can foster a culture of teaching and learning excellence. She creates spaces for all learners to discover, discuss, and evaluate evidence-based teaching and learning practices through individual consultation and by organizing, facilitating, and presenting at science education workshops, retreats, and symposia. To inform curriculum renewal and assessment efforts, Jaclyn also seeks to engage faculty and students in building a consensus vision of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that Biology program graduates should possess.

Noureddine Elouazizi, MSc, MPhil, PhD
Learning Technology Strategist and Skylight LT team lead

Noureddine is responsible for providing the strategic leadership to manage the learning technologies ecosystem at the Faculty of Science. He leads the Skylight-Learning Technology team (Skylight-LT) to provide Learning Technologies services, which include: (i) management of the LT-Ecosystem operations at the Faculty of Science, (ii) consulting faculty members and other stakeholders on the feasibility, integration, design and sustainability of LT-pedagogies and solutions, and (iii) collaborating and engaging with Science faculty in LT-mediated pedagogy’ s evaluation, innovation and research.

Naoko Hawkins, PhD
Educational Strategist, Student Diversity Initiative

Working in partnership with UBC Science instructors, staff, and students, Naoko develops, implements, and evaluates strategies that enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) at UBC Science. She also works to enhance EDI sustainable capacity in UBC Science through training, consulting, communication, and collaboration. Naoko is cross-appointed between Skylight and the Equity & Inclusion Office.

Erica Jeffery, MSc
Science Education Specialist (SES)

(Currently on leave)

As a Life Sciences SES within the Zoology Department, Erica aims to empower graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to use evidence-based methods to achieve their teaching and learning goals. She is particularly interested in leveraging technology to make student learning inside and outside the classroom more effective, and in ways that instructors can efficiently collect and make use of data to inform their teaching practices. Her goals include supporting instructors in undertaking pedagogical projects, fostering connections within and between the department and the UBC teaching and learning community, and assessing and improving the alignment between course-level and program-level learning outcomes.

Rachel Petrynko
Learning Technologies Analyst

(Currently on leave)

Rachel is the Instructional Support Analyst for UBC Skylight. Within the Faculty of Science, she provides support and guidance to faculty members and staff in their use of Connect, Canvas, WeBWorK, and various other learning technologies. Rachel oversees the Learning Technology Rovers and Canvas Technology Rovers, and is also interested in understanding how learning technologies can be used to expand educative dimensions, and ultimately facilitate and improve teaching and learning.

Sarah Bean Sherman
Science Education Specialist (SES)

As the Science Education Specialist in the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) department, Sarah collaborates with faculty to incorporate evidence-based educational strategies in their courses. She conducts classroom observations, gives feedback to instructors, measures student learning and course experiences via surveys and other assessments, and helps to provide a teaching development experience. Current areas of development include investigating the potential benefits of pairing new and experienced instructors as a way of transferring best practices in teaching, assessing the spatial visualization skills of undergraduate students in EOAS, and helping to map the curriculum in EOAS.