Fostering Deep Approaches to Learning
April 26, 2012
University of Waterloo
President’s colloquium
Bridging the divide: Promoting deep learning by integrating research and teaching
Keynote speakers
Prior to coming to McGill, Marcy held a similar position at Concordia University and worked as an international human rights educator at Equitas (formerly known as the Canadian Human Rights Foundation). She has also worked as an instructional designer in the government and corporate sectors.
In addition to the Teaching-Research Nexus Project at McGill, Marcy also develops and facilitates course design and teaching workshops for faculty members, and has collaborated with several new programs on the development of program-level goals and integrated courses. An additional area of professional interest is sustainability in higher education.
Brad's research interests focus primarily on experiential learning and the effective integration of research, teaching and learning, including several projects related to both student and faculty perceptions and experiences of research in the undergraduate learning environment. He has written several articles/book chapters on this area (see the academia.edu profile listed below for more information), and has been an invited plenary, symposium or workshop presenter at conferences and universities across Canada and internationally (Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States).
He has also been involved in projects related to the development of graduate attributes (professional/generic skills, such as communication, leadership, research and inquiry, ethics, etc.), threshold concepts in higher education, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), community service-learning, aboriginal education and multiple ways of knowing, and teaching with technology (in particular computer assisted language learning and e-portfolios). At the U of S, Brad currently co-teaches Transforming Teaching (a course for new faculty), the Instructional Skills for Graduate Students course (a course for graduate students with no prior teaching experience), and is part of the GSR 984 – Critical Thinking and Professional Skills for Graduate Students core team of instructors. He also serves as the chair of the Saskatchewan Faculty Development Network, and the chair of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education SOTL Committee (as well as the STLHE Board of Directors Representative for Saskatchewan and Manitoba).
Please visit Brad's academia.edu profile for more information.
Plenary panel
Live teaching showcase
Three University of Waterloo Professors help us to learn a concept from their disciplines as they would teach it to undergraduates
"Igniting our Practice"
Imagine that you could take a class from an inspiring and well-respected teacher. What would you learn? How would it be taught? In this session, three talented University of Waterloo professors draw us into their disciplines and teach us concepts from their own fields. We’ll then take time to think about how we might best translate elements of their practice to our own contexts.
Serge D'Alessio, Shannon Dea, and Gordon Stubley
