Julia Burke
Email: jburke@uwaterloo.ca
Office: EV1-201 (in-office Tues, Wed, Thurs)
Consults: Book a Teams Consult with Julia
As your Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Faculty Liaison, Julia can work with you on a variety of teaching and learning initiatives:
- Course Design: course design or redesign, blended learning or flipped classrooms, gathering student feedback
- Assessments: assessment and activity design, grading schemes, using or creating Open Educational Resources
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: LITE grants and UWaterloo Teaching and Learning conference proposals.
- Educational Technology: strategies for using LEARN, LEARN Course Templates, best practices for using edtech
- Teaching Community: teaching conversations, CTE programming and events.
Teaching and Learning Resources
- CTE Teaching Tips: search the collection of 150+ evidence-based CTE Teaching Tips.
- Instruction examples: (1) Planning a Class (2) Planning a Flipped Class (3) Empathize with Your Learners (4) Early Engagement Quick tips
- Assessment examples: (1) Aligning Outcomes, Assessments, and Instruction (2) Implementing Group Work (3) Rubrics (4) Exam questions
- Generative Artificial Intelligence: See UWaterloo Course Outline Suggestions for Generative AI (AVP, Academic), Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity by the Office of Academic Integrity, AI and the Writing Process (WCC), and Library Information Guide on ChatGPT and Generative AI
- LEARN: there is extensive help documentation for all LEARN-related tools. To contact LEARN Help directly for technical support, email learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca
- LEARN Course Templates: these course templates help you organize your content and provide a more modern, readable look and feel.
- Self-Directed Courses on LEARN (self-paced, asynchronous, continuous enrolment).
Choose from these four self-directed courses:- Independent Blended Course Design (iBlend)
- Instructor Resources for Student Success
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Methods
- Supporting Student Mental Health (for Instructors)
- Student Resources: Academic Development for Students connects students to learning resources, peer success coaching, and workshops. The Assignment Planner Tool helps students complete a variety of multi-step assignments, including research essays, and lab reports.
- Ed Tech Hub: The EdTech Hub pulls together information regarding our centrally supported educational technology tools to help you decide which EdTech tool(s) may suit your use and how to get support on implementing and working with these tools.
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- Current Edition: February Instructional Strategies in Practice | Bringing Change to the Classroom | Climate Justice | Events
- Archive 2022-2024
About Julia
Starting in 2014, Julia's career in higher education weaves together teaching, instructional design, educational development and research. Julia has worked as an instructional designer for five colleges and two universities, designing over 40 courses. During this time, Julia was also a Part-Time Professor at Canadore College (2014-2022) teaching and redeveloping the environmental citizenship course. Julia joined the University of Waterloo in 2019 as an Online Learning Consultant at the Centre for Extended Learning (CEL). At UWaterloo, Julia worked with faculty to design a dozen undergraduate and graduate courses.
Now, as a CTE Faculty Liaison, Julia works alongside instructors in Environment and parts of Arts to strengthen our teaching communities, share course design and assessment strategies, and foster inclusive learning experiences. Julia researches relational approaches to climate change and sustainability education as a PhD (Geography) student at UWaterloo. Julia has an Honors Bachelor of Science in Biology from Western University, a Bachelor of Education from Nipissing University, and a Master of Environment and Sustainability from Western University. She also has a Learning Experience Design Certificate from OISE, University of Toronto. Julia is an avid musician and enjoys exploring local forests, lakes, and rivers.