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The following individuals are recipients of the most recent round of LITE Seed Grants: Danielle Deveau; Kim Nguyen and Katy Fulfer; Carol Hulls, Jennifer Ellingham, Jane Russwurm; Allison Kelly, Seonaigh MacPherson; Angela Rooke, Nada Alshehabi, Min Huang; Pia Zeni, Kristin Wilson, Daniel Opperwall. Click the title above for project titles and descriptions. 

The Call for Proposals is now open for the 15th annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference taking place on May 2, 2024. Last year saw over 500 faculty members, staff, and students gather in-person online to learn from and with one another around the theme of “Teaching and Learning with Kindness and Care”. Our 2024 conference theme is “Sparking and Sustaining Engagement”.

CTE recently held its inaugural Instructional Innovations Week! In support of teaching as an ever-evolving practice, we held workshops related to the core themes of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, EdTech and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), student engagement and wellness, and sustainability.

We're pleased to share the Centre for Teaching Excellence inaugural online annual report for 2022-2023.

Waterloo's Teaching Innovation Incubator (TII) has recently accepted another important project: the Student-Led, Individually Created Course (SLICCs) framework. Developed at the University of Edinburgh, SLICCs are a self-directed learning approach that offers benefits to both students and instructors by collaboratively shaping educational experiences. Click the title for more details.

In light of the recent and disturbing violent attack that took place in the University of Waterloo's Hagey Hall, instructors, staff, and students may want to consult the Teaching in Times of Crisis resource developed by Vanderbilt University. 

On June 5, 2023, CTE held its annual Professional Development Day. Staff members gathered under one of the gazebos in Waterloo Park for a day of learning and .... click the title to read more.

The 14^th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning conference was held this past May 3 and 4, with a day of online pre-conference workshops preceding the in-person conference, the first since our last in-person conference in 2019. After two years of online conferences to sustain conversations around teaching and learning in the midst of the pandemic, the energy and community-building emerging from our return to in-person was inspiring.

April was an exciting and busy month for CTE.  We were able to offer some of our Signature Annual Events -- including the Waterloo Assessment Institute and the PebblePad Showcase -- in person after so long!