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How can your class or academic program use the University of Waterloo as a Living Laboratory to enhance student learning and engagement? What resources are available to connect student assignment, learning, or research project ideas with campus needs? Who else has used the Living Lab approach to support sustainability education?

Join the next Sustainability Integration in Curriculum Community of Practice session on April 9th, from 1-2:30pm to learn more about the opportunities for Living Labs in your courses and programs. This session will feature a panel discussion from instructors who have used the Living Lab approach in different courses, as well as an overview on resources available through the Sustainability Office to support Sustainability Living Lab projects. Coffee provided! 

Join Victoria Feth 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.

Join us on March 5th for the Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum Community of Practice session on Mapping Sustainability Content in Curriculum. Hosted by the Sustainability Office, the session will:

• Provide an overview of the existing institution-wide sustainability and SDG mapping databases, including how individuals can get access
• Encourage sharing of ideas from units who have done their own curriculum scans
• Strengthen appreciation for limitations and challenges to curriculum mapping, as well as opportunities for improvement
• Identify additional collaborations or future steps

The session is open to all faculty members, instructors, and program developers at University of Waterloo.

Coffee will be provided. Please register on Ticketfi.

In November 2024, the Teaching Innovation Incubator (TII) published its inaugural open call for transformative, interdisciplinary projects aimed at transforming teaching at the University of Waterloo. Key themes of the open call included Generative-AI (Gen-AI), Waterloo’s Global Futures, and educational technological exploration through the Incubator’s EdTech Sandbox. The call closed on December 13^th, receiving 10 project submissions. In January 2025, an adjudication committee of academic leaders and subject-matter experts got together and selected three new project teams to join the Incubator in Winter 2025. The three new projects joining the Incubator include: AI meets EDI: Virtual Simulations for Culturally Safe Indigenous Care, Learning by Teaching a Large Language Model (LLM), and Evolving Work-Integrated Learning with AI Insights. 

Review the project teams webpages for more details!

The Teaching Innovation Incubator is excited to announce the team of three PhD students selected to teach the Wicked Problem of Accessibility in Spring 2024. 

A space to collaborate and share knowledge and information with other instructors and staff about educational technologies currently in use or being investigated at Waterloo.

The Incubator started its new year implementing a new organizational structure, welcoming four Undergraduate Research Coordinators to join the Teaching Innovation Incubator Team. This new organizational model, leverages Waterloo's exceptional cooperative education program, employing four University of Waterloo undergraduate students to assist in the project management and development of existing and incoming projects being supported by the Incubator.