2012 Staff research and service

Scott Anderson, Chad E. Gooyers, Diana E. De Carvalho, Jack P. Callaghan, Kelly Anthony, Jennifer Lynes, Patrica Hrynchak, James Barnett, Nancy Vanden Bosch, Greg Berberich. 
Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Grant – Building Capacity for Case-Based Learning at uWaterloo

James Barnett and Julie Timmermans
Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Grant – Identifying and Decoding Bottlenecks in Tax

Stephen Brown, Jock MacKay, Don McLeish, Paul Kates
Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Grant - Statistics Contest Project

Julie Timmermans
Robert J. Menges New Researcher Award - award by the Special Interest Group for Faculty Teaching, Evaluation, and Development (SIG FTED) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).  Award recognizing outstanding scholarship by a new researcher in the areas of postsecondary teaching, evaluation, and development.

Veronica Brown
Professional Develoment (PD) 4: Teamwork (online undergraduate course offered through Waterloo’s Professional Development (WatPD) program)

Shirley Hall
Landscape Architecture (LARC) 4610 Professional Practice (course offered through University of Guelph’s Landscape Architecture department)
LARC 3060 Landscape Architecture II (course offered through University of Guelph’s Landscape Architecture department)

Trevor Holmes
Cultural Studies (KS) 101: Culture in Thematic Perspective (course offered through Wilfrid Laurier University’s Culture Studies department)

Samar Mohamed
General Engineering (GENE) 123: Electrical Engineering (course offered by Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering)

Mary Power
Biology (BIOL) 239: Genetics (online undergraduate course offered by Waterloo’s Faculty of Science)

Svitlana Taraban-Gordon
PD 8: Intercultural Skills (online undergraduate course offered through Waterloo’s Professional Development (WatPD) program)

Holmes, T., and Dea, S. (2012). Mapping place and identity in academic development: A humanistic dialogue. International Journal for Academic Development, 17(3), 259-264.

Holmes, T., and Manathunga, C. (2012).Of passports, maps, and suitcases: Geopolitical metaphors in academic development. International Journal for Academic Development, 17(3), 193-195. (editorial)

Holmes, T., Manathunga, C., Potter, M., and Wuetherick, B. (2012). The impossibilities of neutrality: Other geopolitical metaphors for academic development units. International Journal for Academic Development, 17(3), 197-202.

Morton, M. (2012). Loving to Learn Day. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, 34(1).

Brown, V., & Timmermans, J.  (2012, November).  Course Design Fundamentals.  Workshop facilitated at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.

Ellis, D., & Timmermans, J.  (2012, November).  Peer review of teaching.  Workshop facilitated for the annual meeting of the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs (CCUBC), Waterloo, Canada.

Timmermans, J., & Brown, V.  (2012, November). Designing assessment for learning.  Workshop facilitated at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.

Brown, V., & Holmes, T. (2012, June). Assessing our outcomes.  Workshop facilitated at Western University, London, Canada.

Morton, M. (2012, February). Back to Class. Presentation to Regional and Provincial Elected Representatives.

Morton, M. (2012, November). Instructional technologies. Workshop delivered at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Morton, M. (2012, March). New educational technologies. Workshop delivered at Humber College, Toronto.

Morton, M. (2012, June). Presentation to a delegation from South West University, China.

Morton, M. (2012, September). Presentation to a delegation from the Iraqi Cultural Office and the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Brown, V. (2012, September). Engaging faculty in the assessment process. Presented at the annual Southern Association of Institutional Research conference, Orlando, FL.

Brown, V. (2012, June). Exploring the boundaries of supporting students with disabilities. Presented at the annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference, Montreal, QC.

Brown, V., Nespoli, O., Vanden Bosch, N., and Fannon, A. (2012, April). Panel discussion on deep learning across the curriculum. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Edginton, A., Power, M., Stark, A., and Holbrook, J. (2012, April). Using student feedback to design a more effective clinical biochemistry course component. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Holbrook, J., Power, M., and Bean, D.  (2012, October). A strategy for developing an institutional learning activity repository in the LOR.  Presented at the annual D2L Ontario Users Forum, Cambridge, ON. 

Holmes, T., and Timmermans, J.  (2012, February).  The educational developer dossier: representing ourselves and our work.  Pre-conference workshop facilitated at the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) Conference, Dalhousie and St. Mary’s Universities, Halifax, NS.

Lithgow, K., and Penny Light, T. (2012, July). Six degrees (or so) of integration: What the students have to say about ePortfolios. Presented at the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) 2012 Annual Conference, Boston, USA.

Power, M., Ho, C., Wasfi, O., Morphy, B., Patel, S., Poon, C., and Tang, B. (2012, April). Learning of evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal in undergraduate pharmacy students: effectiveness of voluntary student-driven journal clubs. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Power, M., McLean, L., and Craig, L. (2012, April). Online patient cases: A study combining virtual and live cases in a pharmacy laboratory. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Power, M., and Craig, L. (2012, October). Investigating a blended model of virtual and “live” simulated patient cases. 4th Annual Conference on Blended Learning, Calgary, AB.

Sanderson, J., Wales, B., and Power, M. (2012, April). Using group work and peer instruction to enhance students’ on-campus learning experience in first year physics.Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Schmenk, B., and Taraban-Gordon, S. (2012, April). Developing a model for the certificate in university language teaching. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Sproule, R., Berberich, G., and Timmermans, J. (2012, April). Teaching mentor program. Presented at the Opportunities and New Directions conference, Waterloo, ON.

Timmermans, J., and Weston, C. (2012, June). Identifying threshold concepts in educational development. Paper presented at the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Timmermans, J. (2012, June). Exploring the meaning of “development” in educational development. Workshop conducted at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), Montreal, QC.

Timmermans, J. (2012, February).  Identifying threshold concepts in the careers of educational developers. Workshop facilitated at the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) Conference, Halifax, NS.

Wuetherick, B., and Holmes, T. (2012, February). Institutional positioning of academic development: embracing our non-neutrality in academic development practice. Presented at the EDC annual conference, Dalhousie and St. Mary’s Universities, Halifax, NS.

Donna Ellis
2012 Chair, Spirit of POD Award committee, Professional and Organizational Development Network

Trevor Holmes
2012 Opportunities and Direction (OND) Conference Co-Chair

Katherine Lithgow
2012 LEO (Learning Environment Operations)
Student Leadership Consultation Group
Student Success Plan Consultation Group
WatCACE Associate

Mark Morton 
2012 Consultant for the Instructional Technologies Certificate program, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Svitlana Taraban-Gordon
2012 Member of the university-wide TA task force
Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Advancement (TAGSA), Ontario Member-at-large
Waterloo Lead for the national call for proposals for the Teaching Innovation Projects Journal (TIPS), Western University

Julie Timmermans
2012 Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) Certification
OND Conference Co-Chair

Monica Vesely
2012 ChemEd 2013 Communications Committee
Training and Orientation Community of Practice

Brown, V., Power M., Taraban-Gordon S., and Vesely, M. OND Proposal Review

Holmes, T., and Manathunga, C. International Journal for Academic Development 17:3 (2012, September). Special Issue: “Political Geographies in Academic Development.”

Morton, M. Advisory Editor. Early Modern Literary Studies.

Timmermans, J.  Reviewer for the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD)

Timmermans, J.  Reviewer for the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE 2012) annual Conference

Vesely, M. Adjudication Committee Member for Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 2012 Poster Competition.

Vesely, M. Reviewer for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2012.