Spice up your lectures with interactive strategies and tech tools. Create a sense of community in your classroom and gather assessment data using the strategies and apps discussed in this workshop. 

This workshop will be delivered through Zoom and will be recorded. The Zoom join link will be provided to registrants before the event.

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 (February 17, 2023). 

Registration is limited to 12 participants and is for Lakehead University participating in New faculty orientation. This course runs from February 13-17th.  Additional details will be provided to registrants prior to February 13th.

The 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 EdMedia Protégé (EMP) program will improve your capacity to design and deliver media assets – such as infographics, video, graphic organizers, etc. - as an embedded part of teaching and learning. In the first three weeks of the program faculty will work together to better understand how to effectively embed media in activity and assessment, and throughout the remaining time in the program faculty receive one-on-one support from media and learning developers to design media for learning, and develop assets using common tools and techniques. The program will wrap up with a showcase that celebrates the works of EMP participants.

This program runs January 24 - March 17th.  Application deadline is January 13th. 

To register: Follow the directions provided on the program homepage @ https://www.lakeheadu.ca/teaching-commons/pedagogy-toolkit/resourcing-learning-with-content-media/educational-media-protege-program

This workshop focuses on teaching strategies for teaching writing in instructors’ respective disciplines. Topics covered include assignment planning for integrating discipline-specific writing in courses and ways to make teaching writing efficient and relevant for students.

The Intelligent Agent tool in myCourselink/D2L can be used to send personalized automated email notifications to learners based on specific criteria or conditions determined by an instructor. Whether teaching online, hybrid, or in-person, instructors can use agents to facilitate timely and relevant communication at critical junctures to help boost engagement, keep learners on task, and gain insights into learner behaviour. 

In this session, participants will be presented with a variety of ways they might use Intelligent Agents for their teaching and learning contexts. Participants will then be instructed on how to set up an intelligent agent in myCourselink/D2L for their own classes.

Dates: January 16 - 27, 2023  (10 hrs over 2 weeks)

Description: Learning the basics of audio recording and editing can serve as the backbone for this technological shift. From understanding the fundamentals of “good” quality voice recording to the basics of audio editing, instructors can begin to create a wide variety of content. From instructional podcasts to audio marking responses or even adding voice content to presentations, the Audio for Education workshop will help you develop the basic skills to make a sound start.

Open-resource assessments support a learner-centered environment that reduces test taking anxiety and increases student satisfaction. This presentation will highlight the utility of open-book and open-web assessments as innovative learning tools in synchronous, hybrid and asynchronous course modalities as they allow students to personalize their learning experience in tandem with instructor-led activities. Results from student cohort performance in focal and co-requisite courses will be presented, as well as flexible strategies for mitigating grade inflation. These methodologies can be applied to nursing and non-nursing disciplines with equal success.

Ryan Carbone, Professor: Biochemistry & Pathophysiology, Cambrian College

Dr. Shannon Dowdall-Smith, RN, PhD, Cambrian College

Thursday, November 10, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__N97SuKIStio8s0clrKfag

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.

In hybrid education, the elements of knowledge, agency, and responsibility are shared amongst staff and students, and educators must navigate messy, post-digital spaces of teaching and learning where nothing is entirely digital or non-digital. This is particularly pronounced in hybrid design, where remote and on campus students are brought together in intentionally extended spaces, both constraining and strengthening possibilities for design, communication, and practice.

Dr. Tim Fawns, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Education, University of Edinburgh

Wednesday, November 9, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hOWLI3o8SuSf4aVJhbxNKA

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.

How do we design an equitable future of learning? Advancing knowledge and skills for equity-informed activist multimedia design, this presentation will launch a newly developed training curriculum called “Activist Design in Educational Multimedia”. With the aim of sparking collaboration, this session will be a rallying call for a community of practice that is largely absent professional teaching and learning networks provincially and nationally: that of educational multimedia designers seeking justice as part of the learning experience.

Rebecca Sweetman, Associate Director - Educational Technologies | Arts and Science Online, Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen’s University

Yasmine Djerbal, Ph.D., Educational Developer - Anti-Racism and Inclusion | Centre for Teaching and Learning, Queen’s University

Monday, November 7, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration Link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EFRdzJWHRVit4aAAFOKC2g

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.