CommuniTeach Sessions (Faculty sharing and discussion) 

Facilitator: Kelly Brennan, Teaching Commons

Date: on-going: September 23rd at 1p-2:30p, October 21st 1-230, November 18 1-2:30, December 16 1-2:30

Description here: These sessions are intended to be an informal discussion amongst faculty and an opportunity to explore and identify a variety of topics related to teaching. Questions will be prepared to facilitate, encourage, and support the conversation, but our goal is to create an environment where faculty can share their stories and experiences with one another and so that we may learn from each other, continue to grow, and support each other in our pedagogical practice.

Topic Themes:

September - Creating Community

Register Here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631782

October - Assessments

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631779

November - Engagement

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631780

December - Mid or end of semester reflection

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Bring Experiential Learning to Your Students with Riipen - 1:00 pm (weekly on Tuesdays)

Learn how Riipen can help educators easily launch and manage industry-focused experiential learning in the classroom.

In this information session you will learn:

• How curriculum-embedded WIL improves student outcomes

• What a quality co-learning experience with an industry partner can look like in your classroom

• How to easily convert your syllabus into a Riipen Course Page

• Why student engagement increases when using Riipen

• How Riipen's course management tools make project based learning easy

Sessions run weekly at 1:00 pm.  Visit the session information page for full details and to access the registration link. 

More details on the Lakehead/RBC/Riipen partnership can be found here.

Skills gaps exist in part because instructors often rely on indirect evidence from paper-based assessments to gauge a student's comprehension level. Choosing or describing the right answer isn't the same as putting knowledge into action. In order to close these gaps, students need skill-building opportunities and timely feedback to help them improve. To this point, resource constraints have made it difficult for organizations to scale skill practice and evaluation using traditional methods. Video Assignments (available in mycourselink) enable experiential learning and soft skill development at scale. When students demonstrate skills and knowledge on video, instructors get an authentic representation of what they can do. Join us for a workshop to see how you can put your student's knowledge into action with Video Assignments.  

This workshop will take a deeper dive into some of the tools introduced in the essentials workshop and introduce course tools that promote collaboration, aid in grading and feedback, and monitor student progress.  Topics will include: 

• creating Groups

• associating groups with the Assignment and Discussion tools

• creating Rubrics

• grading students with Rubrics

• checking User Progress to see how students are progressing through and interacting with your online course

This session will provide an overview of the learning environment and how to use the various tools in mycourselink/D2L to effectively structure your online site to simplify class management and enrich course experiences for students.

This workshop will take participants through the phases of creating and grading assessments in the quiz tool.   Topics will include:

• setting up questions in the various formats

• setting the timing settings of the quiz

• setting up special access times for specific students writing at a different time or who are allowed extra time to write

• previewing the quiz as the students will see it

• viewing the results and statistics of the quiz

• grading any questions that were not automatically graded

• making the grades available to students

Introducing Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this session outlines the benefits as well as the principles and practices of UDL. It also presents a wide range of easy-to-do UDL teaching/learning modifications that can be incorporated into any course or style of teaching.

TSC will be offering Zoom training sessions beginning Tuesday, August 3rd, and ending Thursday, August 26th.  Scheduled session times are listed below:

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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Contact North | Contact Nord’s What’s Next in Online Learning FREE webinar series features a select group of Canadian CEOs sharing their vision of learning in a post-pandemic world.

In this engaging and interactive webinar, Dr. Mohsen Shahini and Carine Marette, CEOs & Co-Founders of the world-class peer assessment platform Kritik, explore the best and next practices in peer assessment.

Key Takeaways

By participating in this webinar, you will:

• Understand what peer assessment is (and what it’s not)
• Identify six ways in which peer assessment can enhance online learning
• Understand how peer assessment helps build a community of inquiry
• Learn how to use it in team and individual projects
• Learn how to give better and more frequent feedback, even with limited TA budgets
• Explore what the future of peer assessment could mean for engaged online learning

Contact North is a non-profit organization funded by the Government of Ontario to support Ontario's education and training providers.

Together in this (approximately) 5-hour course on fostering learning online we will look to identify ways of bridging your face-to-face teaching practices to an online learning environment. Critical elements of effective teaching (motivation, communication, and administration) don’t change when you relocate to a virtual classroom environment. The approaches we use to include them DO. This course will help you develop techniques that will protect these elements when you shift to your online classroom.

This is a short course, which will span 1 week. It is recommended that you allocate approximately 1-hour a day to engage in asynchronous activities. There will be a 1 hour (approximately) live meet-up on the final day (June 4th).

Registration is limited to 12 participants and is for Lakehead University faculty and teaching staff. This course runs from May 31st to June 4th. Additional details will be provided to registrants prior to May 27th.