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The 12^th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference will be held online Wednesday, April 28 and Thursday, April 29, 2021. Please note that due to our 2020 UW Teaching and Learning Conference being cancelled, the theme of our upcoming conference will remain the same: Learning through Assessment.

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CTE is proud of Jordan Rettinger, Faculty Liaison for AHS, for championing the development of a mental health widget for LEARN. The widget will be embedded into all courses, and provides links to resources available to students seeking seek support and care when faced wi

CTE's Faculty Liaison for Arts, Victoria Feth, is assisting with this important and timely online event: 

The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery, in conjunction with Renison University College, University of Waterloo, announces an upcoming synchronous panel discussion on Canadian literary appropriation. 

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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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This round of LITE Seed Grants, we are seeking projects that advance insights, ideas, and discussion generated from the 17th Annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference theme, The Human Factor – Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education. During the Conference, presenters and attendees reflected on the future of higher education, the role of new technologies, like GenAI, and how these can be further developed and shaped in our practice.   

As the next step in this institution-wide conversation, the Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Seed Grants program invites project proposals that build on the insights, challenges, and possibilities identified through the conference.

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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