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The Office of Academic Integrity is hosting a virtual forum on Tuesday June 30 from 10:00am - 11:30am to provide insight into academic integrity at Waterloo and showcase some examples. Representatives from multiple campus units will be on hand to answer your questions, and to provide support and follow-up after the session, as needed.     

Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop

Learn how to search for, and ethically use, open educational resources in your course materials. This introductory workshop covers copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs.

CEL has recently launched a new Open Education Resource called Fostering Engagement: Facilitating Online Courses in Higher Education which was designed for post-secondary instructors and teaching assistants who would like to better understand the critical role of online facilitation in online course delivery and build practical online facilitation skills and strategies that are relevant, effective, and authentic.

Simple and Effective Online Teaching

Hosted by: Victoria Feth and James Skidmore
Wednesday April 8, 11am-12noon EDT

This webinar will have a University of Waterloo focus, but everyone is welcome. And not to worry - it will be recorded in case you can’t make it.

Open Education: Good for you, good for your students, presented by James Skidmore.

University of Waterloo's Dr. Jeff Nagge, in the School of Pharmacy and the Centre for Extended Learning partnered to create an online course, called MOAT (Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy), which includes an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool provided by Ametros Learning to simulate real life clinic visits by patients.

We are very happy to announce that April Philpotts will be joining us as our new Associate Director, Professional Development on August 22, 2019.

April has spent 22 years in the education and tech industries as a teacher, corporate training manager, and administrator, and is dedicated to helping individuals, companies and communities reach their potential.

We asked more than 800 Waterloo undergraduate students what they think about mixed media and interactivity in online learning.  The results are fascinating for online teachers who are contemplating using audio, video, animations and interactive elements.  We've created a video that captures all the details.  Watch it today!