The Creator+ project team is now seeking participants to join the winter 2025 Creator+ pilot! Complete the Expression of Interest Form to be considered!
Join Christine Zaza for the Enhancing Accessibility in Teaching and Learning Series! This online webinar series explore how faculty and staff are supporting and using practices for accessible teaching to benefit all students at the University of Waterloo. No registration is required! Please access this Webinar link on the day of the event.
The recordings for all of the sessions offered as part of Accessible Education Day(s), including the opening and closing remarks, and the Keynote from Dr. Jay Dolmage are now available online! View this post for information on how to access the documents.
The Integrated Accessibility Retreat is available to all instructors at UWaterloo. This is a one-day retreat where you'll learn how to incorporate accessible education practices into your course. Please register!
Seeking instructors and staff to join the Performance+ pilot for Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 terms.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is proud to announce that Integrating Sustainability into the Curriculum project was shortlisted for the 2024 QS Reimagine Education Rewards.
The Incubator Project, Evaluating LEARN Tools: Creator+ is seeking interested faculty and staff to participate in the Creator+ pilot. Please complete the Expression of Interest form for consideration in the Winter 2025 pilot.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is excited to announce its support of the newly launched Sustainability in the Curriculum Community of Practice.
This Community of Practice is open to all faculty, instructors, and support staff who are interested in sustainability integration work. The first session will take place on November 27, 2024 from 1:00-2:30pm in EIT 3142. Registration is required.
Come out and bring a friend! All are welcome.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator has announced its inaugural open call for project submissions.
The Incubator is seeking diverse project teams with teaching and learning ideas that are complex, necessitate change, require interdisciplinary and cross-functional partnerships, and have the potential to be a transformative part of the future of education at the University of Waterloo. Selected projects will gain access to funding, project coordination, and a suite of resources.
Check out the Open Call Innovation Incubator website for specifics!
Seeking PhD candidates to teach an interdisciplinary course, The Wicked Problem of Accessibility.
As part of the University’s strategic plans to develop talent for a complex world and focus on interdisciplinary scholarship, a team of PhD candidates will come together in winter and spring 2025 to re-design and co-teach a course related to contemporary Wicked Problems. The course will be offered to upper-year undergraduate students from across the University to create a community of scholars, sharing different perspectives from the PhD candidate instructors and the learners in the classroom.
The course, offered in spring 2025, will focus on the Wicked Problem of Accessibility. We know there are brilliant doctoral researchers across the University who are immersed in studying accessibility from interdisciplinary perspectives, addressing research on intersectionality and disability identities; historical and cultural representations of disability and accessibility; technological advances to support access and inclusion; integrating accessibility into the design of programs, buildings, cities, and community areas; considering physical, developmental, cognitive, and learning disabilities; mental health; social justice; policy development; the representation of accessibility and disability in media and literature; disability advocacy, among others.
Many of these researchers may also welcome the opportunity to be part of an interdisciplinary teaching team that will provide undergraduate students with a classroom experience where the academic content spans disciplinary boundaries.
The selected PhD candidates will work as a team to re-design the course (previously offered in Winter 2023 and Spring 2024) and will receive training in the winter 2025 term from mentors in the Teaching Innovation Incubator. In the spring 2025 term, the team will collectively deliver the course to senior undergraduate students. Instructors will receive financial support for their contributions to the University’s teaching mission.
We encourage PhD candidates to apply using the online application form – details can be found on The Wicked Problem of Accessibility Teaching Innovation Incubator website. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 19, 2024, by end of day.