Presenter: Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Date: April 27, 2022 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description: Course assessments are the means to measure and ascertain if students are achieving or able to demonstrate the learning outcomes of the course. In this session, we will examine the different types of assessments and what types of learning they help to demonstrate. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between the different types of assessment;
• Discuss the benefits and application of formative assessment and consider if and how the different types of assessment may be used in their teaching context;
• Discuss additional best practices associated with assessment

Presenter: Dr. Jessica Jurgutis, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies & Indigenous Learning

Date: April 9, 2022, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Description: What are land acknowledgments and what do they mean? In this workshop, Dr. Jurgutis will journey beside us as we learn what they are and why we use them today.

Presenters: Alex Thomson, Interdisciplinary Studies, Steven Secord, Faculty of Education, Becky George, Hypothesis

Date: April 11, 2022, 11:00 am - 12 noon

Description: In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will lead participants in a discussion about how social annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading more active, visible, and social. In addition to demoing how to use Hypothesis with course texts in D2L, they will share various discussion protocols and active learning strategies that can help make social annotation more engaging and fun.  Alex Thomson, Interdisciplinary Studies and Steven Secord, Faculty of Education will also provide examples of how they used Hypothesis in their courses to promote and engage their learners in active reading. Participants will come away from this session with a variety of ways to creatively use social annotation in their courses.

Looking forward to working with you all on April 11th!

By: Dr. Victoria Qutuuq Buschman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources/University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bio: Dr. Buschman is an Iñupiaq (Inuit) wildlife and conservation biologist raised between the vast tundra of Utqiaġvik, Alaska and the tall redwoods of northern California. She has lived and worked across the Arctic in an effort to promote how Indigenous Peoples fundamentally shape Arctic biodiversity conservation, from research, to management, to actualizing the dreams of new protected areas.

Her role in research has been to challenge the colonial legacy of conservation and instead promote partnerships with Indigenous communities, knowledge, and governance to develop ethically-conscious, culturally-relevant, and fully knowledge-based conservation efforts in the Arctic.

Co-hosted by: Megan Sheremata, Department of Geography, Teaching Commons & YOCA

Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Time: 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Presenter: Jonathan Erua, Administrative and Intake Officer, Human Rights & Equity

Dates: March 22, 10:00-11:30 am or March 25, 1:00-2:30 pm

Description: How to have difficult conversations with students on topics related to Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Homophobia/Transphobia

Register Here: March 22: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3647534

                         March 25: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3647576

Presenters: Dr. Lisa O’Neill; Dr. Angela van Barneveld 

Description: The overarching objective of this 4-module course will be to support Lakehead University instructors and staff, who seek to create quality, technology-enhanced (digital) learner experiences. Learners will leave the course able to take the best resources and experiences from this course and apply them to the design and structures of their own courses.

This course will require 4-6 hours of your time each week, for a 5 week period.

Please register through Libcal 

Start date:  April 6th 2022

End date: May 10th 2022

Presenter: Wendy Parkes, Assistant Professor, Law

Date/Time: March 29, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm

Description: The switch to online learning during COVID required adopting innovative ways to keep students engaged and motivated.  This workshop reviews the opportunities and challenges associated with collaborative learning, including peer editing and team exercises, as applied in a professional program. It explores how lessons learned from collaborative learning can be carried forward into the post-COVID world.

Presenter: Rusty Brown, Education Media Specialist, Teaching Commons
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Description: Simple design principles can be effective when creating graphic media assets. The presentation will cover:
• Basic introduction to tools and templates available with Canva
• Basic formatting principles
• Designing with the grid
• University branding

Please register through Libcal

Workshop will be recorded

Facilitator(s): Dr. Lisa O’Neill; Shantala Singh; Adam O. Thomas, Teaching Commons

Description: The EdMedia Protege (EMP) program is designed to support faculty members who are interested in being better media creators, enhance their learners' experiences with effective resources, and distribute media in ways that work for both faculty and learner. The program includes training in the use and creation of open resources as participants are required to creative commons their program creations.  This workshop will first consider the use of media for learning and teaching, will share methods to support the creation and sharing of media within educational environments, and will share elements from the program that are available for use and remixing.

Day: Thursday, March 10th, 2022

Time: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

 This Session will be recorded

Facilitators: Dr. Lisa O’Neill, Teaching Commons; Dr. Angela van Barneveld, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University

Description: The workshop, across three phases, will help participants to create a 3-part checklist of ‘open by design’ elements that can be applied to any course development. Part 1 will look at design considerations, Part 2 will discuss prototyping processes, and Part 3 will outline steps to refining the course in partnership with learner participants. 

The workshop will wrap up with a walk-through of an open course that follows the model presented today. The course is open-licensed and can be integrated within any institution/organization wishing to support their people to create quality tech-enabled learning experiences!

Who can/will participate? Anyone who is interested in creating massively open courses that support online learning experiences. 

What will a participant need to be part of this? General experience and knowledge of learning management systems, awareness of technology tool benefits and drawbacks, general knowledge about how formal learning is structured, and what motivates people to learn.

What will be the outcomes of the activity? A 3-part checklist, created by participants, of ‘open by design’ elements, that can be applied to any course development.

Day:  Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Time: 9:00 am to 11:00am

 This session will be promoted on the Open Education Week website. 

This session will be recorded.