Faculty Learning Hub

November 6, 2024

Free EDV workshops from Thursday, Nov. 7 to Friday, Nov. 15, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Part-time faculty (hourly, partial load, or sessional) with an active teaching contract who participate in all of an EDV workshop’s hours will be compensated $40/hour....

Categories Events

November 6, 2024

Using GenAI as a Learning Partner in Class 

Reading Time: 5 minutes Dorina Grossu shares her approach to using genAI for inquiry-based learning and ideas for faculty who wish to bring AI to active learning in the classroom.

Categories AI/AI and Learning/Faculty Stories/Teaching

November 5, 2024

Student Perspectives in SoTL: Transforming Learning and Teaching Together

Reading Time: 4 minutes Image source: Pexels, by Andy Barbour As the leaves begin to fall and the chill of autumn sets in, our college campuses buzz with a...

Categories Teaching

November 4, 2024

It’s National STEM Day, November 8th.

Reading Time: 3 minutes On November 8th, countries around the world will be celebrating the annual National STEM Day.  Here are some ‘fun facts’ about the day you may...

Categories Events/Teaching

October 29, 2024

Active Learning in your Tech or Software Lessons

Reading Time: 10 minutes Teaching technical courses on software, programming, web development, and design can effectively leverage active learning. Active learning emphasizes building firsthand, practical experience and gradually fostering...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching

October 28, 2024

Making a Comeback: How to Get Back on Track After a Rocky Start to the Semester

Reading Time: 5 minutes Did you get off to a rocky start to the semester? Finding it challenging to connect with your students to foster a productive learning environment...

Categories Build Community/Class Management/Teaching

October 21, 2024

Designing the Core Activities in Your Lesson

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching and Learning Before you start reading, ask yourself the following questions: Ideally, when a professor receives a course, in most...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Lesson Planning/Teaching

October 18, 2024

A Spectrum of Student AI Use in Classroom Learning Tasks

Reading Time: 5 minutes An job aid that describes five types of learning tasks that can be completed with AI and three different approaches to using AI for each type of task.

Categories AI/AI and Learning/Teaching

October 10, 2024

Is it time to refresh my rubric? A checklist when your rubric needs a tune-up 

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you have a rubric that you’ve been seeing a lot of lately? Perhaps there’s one rubric you’ve been using to grade multiple submissions this...

Categories Assessing Learning/Improving Assessments/Rubrics and Marking

October 9, 2024

Understanding your Students’ Conceptions of Assessment for a Better Learning Experience

Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever noticed that some students approach assessments with excitement and curiosity, while others seem overwhelmed with anxiety or disengaged? The way students perceive...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Challenges/Assessment Quick Guides/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment