by Tae Aoyagi | Dec 15, 2020 | stories
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...
by Tae Aoyagi | Nov 26, 2020 | events, news, stories
By Peter Sinclair, PhD As faculty members, we want to give our students the tools they need to succeed. In many subjects, one of those tools is a textbook. Textbooks provide a presentation of course material that can be different than what students see during class...
by Tae Aoyagi | Oct 15, 2020 | news, stories
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...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | news, stories
Games, Chocolate and Collaboration: A Conversation with Jane Raycraft about collegiality and making learning enjoyable As a teacher, do you ever see students fearfully entering your classroom with pre-conceived notions of distress surrounding your discipline? Have you...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | events, news, stories
A Conversation with Andrea Actis on Risk, Vulnerability & Affect in Teaching & Learning Risk and Sharing Strange Memoirs This semester, Andrea Actis took a risk. She went into her 300-level English class and shared some deeply personal pieces of writing, or in...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 14, 2019 | events, news, stories, workshops
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...
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