Like all UBC Faculties, Vantage College had to shift its course delivery fully online in March 2020. This previously recorded event featured three short talks by experienced UBC Vantage College instructors who reported on their experience over the summer months as they adapted to remote teaching contexts. Pandemic Teaching: Designing UBC’s COVID-19 & Society course By Katherine Lyon, PhD This presentation details the development of a new online sociology course, COVID-19 & Society, delivered summer 2020 at UBC. Course design considerations to be discussed include the strengths and challenges of teaching and learning about an ongoing crisis, the facilitation of digital course learning communities, and the rapid and collaborative development of thematic course content. Adapting to new circumstances: Recounting the experience of Engineering program instructors at UBC-O By Ernest Goh, PhD Under normal circumstances, the Applied Science (Engineering) stream of UBC Vantage College conducts its summer term in UBC's Okanagan campus, in the city of Kelowna. Arising from the COVID-19 situation, this past Vantage summer term was conducted online. Instructors taught from home, while none of the students were in Kelowna. At the start of the term, 19 students were in East Asia, 41 in North America, and 4 in other parts of the world. More students returned to their home countries during the term. This presentation recounts the experiences of a group of Engineering instructors, led by Ernest Goh, as they adapted their teaching to the new situation this past summer. The considerations included workload distribution, pacing, reasonable contact hours for all time zones, etc. Additionally, one of the courses is a project course, with some logistics to consider. Ernest will share insights from this experience in his role as coordinator. Key Design Considerations and Implementations for Teaching Chemistry Online By Anka Lekhi, PhD As I prepared to transition a first-year Chemistry course online, I identified four key elements to help me design the course. These key elements included: making content easily accessible, building community among learners and between learners and the teaching team, incorporating peer learning, and having opportunities for feedback on student learning. In this presentation, I will outline specific strategies I implemented in Canvas and Collaborate Ultra which facilitated these four key elements. Visit https://vantagecollege.ubc.ca/academic-speaker-series to stay up to date on our future Speaker Series events.