Teaching

Together we can transform for the better if we can model purposefulness and empathy – and avoid saying everything is great when it isn’t.

We searched the literature and consulted our colleagues from across the country for innovative approaches and resources.

Online teaching requires learning new skills, as well as acknowledging the types of audiences they are attempting to engage.

We need to recognize that teaching remotely is far more complicated than simply putting content online.

With expertise in flexible, modular training through online delivery, CE units are helping to steer their institutions through the chaos of COVID-19.

In Reacting to the Past games, students engage with history by inhabiting a character.

From open-book tests to AI-enhanced proctoring tools, final exams will look very different for most faculty members.

The new program at Trent’s GTA campus aspires to engage “with issues of diverse communities,” says administrator.

Here is our learning-by-doing experience of teaching online courses about the COVID-19 response.

My underlying message to my students was to keep their educational goals as an anchor during these unexpected times.

COVID-19 will still be very much with us at the start of the fall term, and we need to prepare.

While the University of Alberta has opted for a mandatory credit/no credit assessment this term, other universities are letting students decide whether to forgo a letter grade.

As long as faculty are consistently communicating with students, the delivery method isn’t as important as the content, says one expert.

Rather than dismissing the loneliness of online learning as inevitable, we need to work collectively across academia to continually improve student experiences for everyone.

Mathematics and statistics instructors from across Canada have come together to launch a grassroots faculty initiative to improve student learning.

For me, podcasting is a way to continue the conversation with my students and bring my research to unexpected new audiences.

It’s never been more urgent for students to learn how to harness the power of persuasion as a force for good.

Small steps can make a big difference to engaging students in their own assessment.

Once a hotly debated position in academe, the teaching-only stream is become more commonplace on campus.

There’s much to admire in Canada’s higher education system, but we can do so much better.