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Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching
ISSN 2368-4526 · University of Windsor · 323 artikel di indeks
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Navigating the landscape of pedagogical training: The journeys of three mathematics graduate students
This article describes the landscape of teaching assistantships (TAships) in the Mathematics Department of a large, public, research institution. First, we present visualized data describing the terrain for all mathematics graduate students. Second, we focus on three specific journeys in that…
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Student and Instructor Perceptions of a First Year in Active Learning Classrooms
This article presents evaluation of an active learning classroom (ALC) initiative at the University of Ottawa. Preliminary results indicate three broad trends to inform future practice and classroom design: 1) Despite advances in educational technology, there remains a strong appetite for low-tech…
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Online Instructor Development: A COOL story
This paper explores the development of a flexible, free, online certificate program built on open educational resources to support instructors transitioning to online and non-traditional teaching modes. The program offers multiple pathways to completion, including recognition of prior learning and…
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A collaborative approach to developing transferable teaching skills among student workshop facilitators
The teaching assistant program at the University of Windsor facilitates opportunities for students to develop leadership capacity, creativity, and pedagogical knowledge. This study explored the skills that student workshop facilitators were developing and/or enhancing, and how these skills might be…
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Exploring the impact of a task-based faculty development certificate program.
Faculty Development programs aim to improve the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of teaching faculty with the goal of enhancing the student learning environment. This article describes a two-year research project that explored the impact of a task-based faculty development certificate program…
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Maclean’s Magazine University Rankings (1998-2018)
Following 20 years of publishing rank and reputation scores for Canada’s 49 institutions of higher education, the present analysis tested five hypotheses: (1) rank and reputation should be positively correlated across schools for each year; (2) rank and reputation should be positively correlated…
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Learning in Teams
Learning in teams offers unique benefits to understand and address contemporary, global, and local challenges through effective and thoughtful learning journeys. However, learning in teams is not always thoroughly planned or effectively delivered. In trying to better understand what processes…
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Using Knowledge Mobilization to Promote Student Engagement in Health Promotion on Canadian Campuses
With the increased incidence of poor mental health in young adults, health promotion strategies are needed on campuses. World Cafés were held to facilitate discussion around three main topics: thoughts about findings emerging from a recent health survey; resources currently available on campus; and…
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Creating an Authentic International Development Learning Opportunity
This paper draws from the author’s experience of developing a short-term intensive international learning experience within the framework of a one-semester course. The paper is aimed at faculty members who are interested in implementing a short but effective and authentic international learning…
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How can we help all students RISE?
This collection of short essays utilizes a narrative approach to present the RISE framework, with four pillars centered on promoting student Resilience, Identity, Strength in Scholarship and Empowerment. Each short essay aims to draw attention to the spectrum of challenges that students currently…
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Oral Assessment as a Culminating Activity for Faculty Development
This paper describes the oral assessment activity we designed and used as a culminating activity for faculty participants in a professional academic development program. The program offers multiple certificates, and the goal of each certificate is to enhance participants’ abilities to design and…
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The Laurentian University CAE Coffeehouse
Laurentian University’s Teaching and Innovation team recently created the virtual CAE Coffeehouse, an online repository of a variety of faculty development resources. The online CAE Coffeehouse supports the physical in-person Faculty Learning Community through web-streamed workshops, drop-in hours…
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Guiding a Better Experiential Learning Journey by Making It HIP Again
The definition of experiential education (EE) has both pedagogical and practical implications for higher education institutions. While there is increasing pressure to justify and quantify these experiences, we remain faced with the challenge of ensuring a demonstration of breadth does not distract…
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Building Metacognition and Critical Thinking Using a Deliberate Approach
This article describes the Context Based Learning (CBL) redesign of Nursing courses addressing life transitions, including by implementing group discussion, written concept analysis, group presentations, reflections on thinking and simulation performance, group skills analysis and a final paper…
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Sequential Writing Assignments to Critically Evaluate Primary Scientific Literature
In the later years of undergraduate study, students read, process, and evaluate primary literature within specific fields of study. Shifting from textbooks to the vast amounts of peer-reviewed current literature can be difficult for students. This article details an innovative approach to helping…
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Inquire, Imagine, Innovate: A Scholarly Approach to Curriculum Practice
This paper describes the development of a three-phase approach our team of educational developers finds useful in curriculum projects in our Teaching and Learning Centre. Informed by the literature on the importance of flexibility and iteration (Knight, 2001; Wolf, 2007) and an orientation towards…
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Enhancing Undergraduate Student Self-efficacy and Learning with a Community Service learning (CSL) Nutrition Workshop Assignment
Community service learning (CSL) activities in undergraduate programs are associated with improvements in self-efficacy (confidence related to performing a specific task) and academic achievement. This study aimed to understand the impact of a CSL assignment on self-efficacy related to teaching…