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Use Welcome Messages to Set the Tone
The first two weeks of your course offer a unique opportunity to create a learning space that feels welcoming and coherent for students. Sending out a warm and informative welcoming message can set the tone for the course.
Three Key Ideas to Get You and Your Students Off to a Strong Start
It’s week one of your online course and you are determined to create a welcoming learning environment that encourages students to thrive and achieve their learning goals. It sounds doable, but where do you start? Here are three key ideas to get you and your students...
Helping Students Succeed without Breaking the Bank
Peter Sinclair
Reimagining the Three-hour Synchronous Online Class: Welcome to Kym Stewart’s Three-Hour Circuit
Kym’s innovative approach to teaching her course includes having four groups composed of 7-9 students participate in four alternating class components, which are each 25 minutes in length. Students all join the beginning of the class and all come back together at the...
Spotlight on Faculty: Jane Raycraft
By Bettina Boyle, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Spotlight on faculty: Andrea Actis
By Bettina Boyle, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Helping Students Develop Foundational Knowledge
Bloom and Knowledge as Foundational Do you ever feel that the interpretation of Bloom’s taxonomy in the form of a pyramid favours higher order thinking skills like critical thinking or creation of new knowledge over helping students learn and remember facts and...
The Paper Bag Exam – A Celebration of Learning
It’s exam period and the air on campus is intense with last minute studying and test anxiety. Except perhaps for one classroom in Cedar…
Spotlight on Faculty: Fiacre O’Duinn
A conversation with Fiacre O'Duinn on the intersection of arts and sciences, and the library as gateway to possibilities. Did you ever feel you needed a neutral space to just be yourself, to explore possibilities and intersections and to reimagine the future of...
OER with Blake Rowsell
Blake Rowsell Outdoor Recreation Program Convenor and Instructor Schools of Tourism Management & Outdoor Recreation Why OER? The number one complaint that I hear from students is the high cost of text books. I’ve been using OERs for...
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