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If you’ve ever seen someone doing what the young man above is doing, then you’ve seen someone immersed in virtual reality (VR). To an outside observer, it looks kind of strange. But to the person wearing the headset, it can be an intense and absorbing experience that allows you to see and “do” things you that you can’t easily do in the real world.

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Here’s another story in a series from the Centre for Teaching Excellence to facilitate cross-institutional sharing of strategies for remote teaching.

When teaching online, creating an environment where students can actively engage with their instructors, peers, and course content "increases student satisfaction, enhances student motivation to learn, reduces the sense of isolation, and improves student performance in online courses” (Bolliger & Martin, 2018). 

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Katherine Lithgow, Annik Bilodeau, and Rebecca MacAlpine were part of projects awarded funding for the first cohort of the Global Futures Initiatives.

Lessons learned during the pandemic are part of a new initiative at Waterloo that combines face-to-face teaching with online learning

How many thousand consultations did we do? How many workshops? Is it true that over the CTE website was visited by over 1 million people last year? 

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The 2020 LITE Full Grant round has been suspended, and in its place an additional LITE Seed Grant round will be held. This additional round of LITE Seed Grants will be due October 1, 2020 and will adhere to the 

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Student motivation and engagement correlate positively with learning outcomes, but in a remote teaching context they can be especially challenging to establish and maintain

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The sudden shift to emergency remote teaching in March, and the news that closely followed which made clear that the spring term would be taught remotely, required new modalities of support for

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