Katherine Lithgow

Katherine Lithgow is the senior educational developer, Integrative and Experiential Learning for the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo. She is particularly interested in how to best help students connect classroom learning to that which occurs outside the classroom in workplace, community, and social environments, and how to facilitate transfer of knowledge, skills and values across contexts.

She coordinates the Integrative and Experiential Education series, a series devoted to strategies for fostering experiential learning, and the Waterloo High Impact Practices Group, a collective of Waterloo faculty and staff who support the use of High Impact Practices in teaching and learning, and meet a few times a year to share their successes, challenges and tips for High Impact teaching and learning. She has worked on a number of Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) funded grant projects including ePortfolios for Career, Reflection and Competency Integration and Bridging the Articulation of Skills Gap through WatCV: Career and Competency ePortfolios and is currently working with a team on “Evaluating a New Student-Centric Learning Approach: The Impact of SLICCs (Student-Led Individually-Created Courses) on Student Learning Outcomes.”