Donna Ellis

Since 1994, Dr. Donna Ellis has supported teaching development for Waterloo’s instructors at all levels and promoted the importance of teaching and learning at our institution. In her role as director, she oversees the strategic direction of the Centre’s work, which focuses on effective teaching via face-to-face teaching, blended learning, emerging technologies, integrative and experiential learning, Indigenization, decolonization, and anti-racism. CTE provides individual instructor consultations, workshops and events, online resources, curriculum and program review consultations, and research and evaluation support.  

Donna also engages in both research and institutional-level projects about teaching and learning. She is the President-Elect for the International Consortium for Educational Development and a former president of the U.S.-based POD Network.

Donna has a PhD from Waterloo’s Management Sciences program and completed her dissertation research on instructional innovations. She also has an MA in Language and Professional Writing from Waterloo, and has taught in the Speech Communication program. Donna, along with her husband, spends time away from work raising three fine boys.