2023 conference highlights
About:
A collaboration between the University of Toronto Scarborough Library and Center for Teaching and Learning, Brock University, Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the University of Waterloo, DPI2023 was hosted online.
The 9th iteration of the two-day virtual conference took place on Wednesday August 16th and Thursday August 17th, 2023, EST. The conference featured keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning.
While broadly focused on Digital Pedagogy, the conference themes included:
- digital pedagogy best practices in STEM, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences;
- digital pedagogy collaborations between faculty, educational developers, librarians, and/or graduate/undergraduate students;
- digital pedagogy collaborations with organizations outside the academy;
- the state of digital pedagogy education in higher education;
- digital pedagogy case studies, including course and assignment innovations;
- innovative new uses for traditional digital pedagogy tools.
Themes
DPI 2023 streams:
- Critical Ideologies and Digital Pedagogy: How do we question and challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of Digital Pedagogy? What underlying approaches and questions should we engage with more deeply? How can our pedagogical practices help support new educational priorities and social change?
- Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy techniques and tools helped instructors and students address anti-racist and decolonization practices in their curriculum and research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do you have any best practices to share?
- Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy. What barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How have you resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to reflect on and share frameworks and best practices that have helped to reduce pedagogical barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
- Sustainability, renewability, and environmental costs in the digital sphere: Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment needed to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the benefits of digital pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital pedagogy proponents be good environmental stewards?
2023 Keynote Speakers
Machinations: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics of Care, and the Future(s) of EdTech
Dr. Brenna Clarke Gray
Link to video of day 1 plenary
Dr. Gray is the Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, where her research interests include the history and future of open tenure processes, the role of care and care work in the practice of educational technology, and scholarly podcasting. Prior to her transition to faculty support, she spent nine years as a community college English professor and comics scholar, and has published extensively on Canadian comics and representations of Canada in mainstream American comic books. She holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of New Brunswick. Outside of the academy's walls, Brenna co-hosts Haze & Katniss & Harry & Starr, a podcast about young adult literature and film adaptation, and pretends at the role of a public intellectual on Twitter, when you can find her @brennacgray.
Embracing vulnerability: Interrogating colonialism as a team
Link to day 2 invited speakers
(Front l-r) Christy Sich, Heather Campbell
Heather Campbell is an uninvited settler of Scottish and Irish descent who lives and works on Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnapéewak and Chonnonton lands. As Curriculum Librarian for Western, she supports the university’s strategic curricular initiatives as both a member of Western Libraries and the Centre for Teaching and Learning. Heather’s scholarship looks at teacher identity, feminist pedagogy, curriculum decolonization, and epistemic justice.
Kim Carson is an uninvited settler of English and French descent who lives and works on Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnapéewak and Chonnonton lands. She holds the role of Head, Teaching & Learning at Western Libraries at Western University. She is particularly interested in supporting the intentional growth of people through a developmental, integral theory-informed lens to coaching; and taking a heart-centred approach to creating a cohesive knowledge justice / IL program at a large institution.
Bobby Glushko is part of a flexible, high trust, high functioning leadership team, helping to shepherd Western Libraries collective ambition to become a key player in the research and teaching missions of Western University. Raising ambitions, having fun, and empowering each other to achieve our best!
Christy Sich is a Teaching and Learning Librarian with Western Libraries. She has worked as a librarian in academic libraries for over 20 years. She specializes in teaching information literacy skills and assisting with systematic and scoping reviews, partnering with the Faculties of Social Science and Business. Christy’s current research interests include exploring methods of teaching and combatting the spread of misinformation.
Dan Sich is the Teaching and Learning Librarian, E-Learning at Western University. His current research interests include: anti-racist, Indigenous and decolonized pedagogy; and faculty representation of academic librarians and library services and resources to their students.
DPI 2023 Full Program with Abstracts
Updated Programs (Dec 2024)
