Events

Fundamentals Microteaching Sessions provide participants the opportunity to practice delivering a 10-minute lesson and receive constructive feedback in a supportive, low-risk environment. This session is held online in Zoom.

"The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation" – Edited by: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall (2015)

From the publisher: The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada.

When instructors decide to innovate in their teaching, some students love it, but others can actively resist. Various learning-centred pedagogical approaches can elicit this negative response, be it use of a flipped classroom model, extensive use of groupwork, or unconventional assessment approaches like ungrading. 

Members and affiliates of the XR Community of Practice will share about their experiences using and supporting XR educational initiatives.

Come hear short presentations from colleagues at the University of Waterloo who have conducted their own scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research and the teaching and learning "problems" they tried to solve supported with LITE grant funding.

Are you facing challenges motivating your students to engage and think critically about your course content, come prepared to class, or actively participate in your online course? In this session we will explore the evidence-based practice of collaborative annotation to encourage students to engage with and think more deeply about your course content. 

​In our current political and social landscape, students are hyperaware and hypersensitive to topics that broach themes of violence, oppression, and power. The hyperawareness of students poses an interesting challenge for instructors, as they need to learn to balance student socio-emotional needs with essential content.

While ChatGPT has dominated university discussions about AI, there have been parallel advancements in AI image generators. In this experiential and interactive session, attendees will be guided through a sample AI image generation exercise that you can consider adapting to your own courses.

Join Jennifer Ellingham, MME, to hear preliminary results of her investigations into the effectiveness of comparatively simple activities that may improve the undergraduate engineering student experience.