The instructors of the Wicked Problem of Climate Change (Fall 2024) course offering sat down with Waterloo Imprint to discuss some of the features of the next iteration of the Wicked Problem Course.
Earlier this month, two members of the Student-Led Individually Created Course (SLICC) project team, facilitated a workshop at the University of Waterloo’s Teaching and Learning Conference. Aligning with the conference theme, “Sparking and Sustaining Student Engagement,” the workshop centred on cultivating self-directed learners for today’s rapidly changing world.
Connect with Emma McDougall, SLICCs Project Manager to learn more about how you can incorporate a SLICCs framework into your course to enhance student learning.
The Accelerating Integration of Sustainability into the Curriculum project shared their findings from their study on integrating sustainability into the curriculum at the University of Waterloo's Teaching and Learning Conference.
The need to incorporate sustainability into post-secondary education is identified and supported by undergraduate students.
After months of dedicated internal work, the AEP team presented at the University of Waterloo’s annual Teaching and Learning Conference. The goal was to engage with the broader Waterloo community, discuss the project’s objectives, and highlight the impact of accessible teaching practices and policies. They also sought feedback from instructors and staff who have implemented their own accessibility teaching initiatives.
A panel discussion titled, “Co-Designing, Co-Teaching, and Co-Learning with Graduate Students: Making Interdisciplinary Teaching of Wicked Problems Work” at UW’s Teaching and Learning Conference provided compelling insights into the practice of interdisciplinary teaching.
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 instructors for the Fall 2024 iteration of the Wicked Problem course "The Wicked Problem Climate Change" have been selected. Read about our instructors, and the course that will be co-designed over the course of the Winter 2024 term.
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.