The Ontario Summit for Students with Disabilities produced their findings from their one-day online conference in February 2024. The report shares the stories and lived experiences of over 100 students attending post-secondary institutions in Ontario with lived experience with disability.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is seeking support from University of Waterloo faculty, staff, and students who have an interest in providing feedback and enhancing their knowledge about accessible education by participating in an Accessible Education User Testing Group.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator, in collaboration with Instructional Technologies and Media Services is now piloting the Creator+ tool to help University of Waterloo faculty and staff enhance student engagement in their LEARN courses.
The Working Group helping to support the Accelerating Integration of Sustainability into the Curriculum project has wrapped up campus consultations. The project team now moves onto the next phase of the project, preparing a report with key recommendations to share with the campus community about these findings.
Seeking PhD candidates to teach an interdisciplinary course, The Wicked Problem of Climate Change
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 spring 2024 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 fall 2024, will focus on the Wicked Problem of Climate Change. We know there are brilliant doctoral researchers across the University who are immersed in studying climate change from interdisciplinary perspectives, addressing research on a policy, environmental, scientific, technological, and health perspectives, 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 (first offered in Winter 2023) and will receive training in the spring 2024 term from mentors in the Teaching Innovation Incubator. In the fall 2024 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 Climate Change Innovation Incubator website. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 4, 2024, by the end of day.
Following the initial round of testing on the efficacy of the Creator+ and Performance+ tools, the project team received budget approval to proceed with a two-year pilot of both tools. We are seeking interested individuals from across the faculties to join the pilot.
Following the initial round of testing on the efficacy of the Creator+ and Performance+ tools, the project team received budget approval to proceed with a two-year pilot of both tools.
Creator+ will continue to be investigated in the winter 2024 term by a group of cross-disciplinary faculty and instructors who are teaching a course in spring 2024. Instructors will have the opportunity to design their courses throughout the winter term with Creator+ integrated and will receive documentation, resources and training.
The instructors for the Spring 2024 iteration of the Wicked Problem course "The Wicked Problem of Precarity: Living in an Uncertain World" have been selected. Read about our instructors, and the course that will be co-designed over the course of the Winter 2024 term.
The website for the Disability Inclusion Steering Committee (DISCo), the committee of senior University leaders who are leading UW's approach to meeting the 185 AODA recommendations, is now live. The Accessible Education project is just one example of how DISCo has identified an approach to meeting its accessibility goals. Read more about the broad work of DISCo.
The Centre for Teaching Excellence has developed a new resource identifying the existing accessibility initiatives at the University of Waterloo.