November 23, 2022 Oral Assessments: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Considerations Reading Time: 6 minutes This tip discusses factors to consider when deciding whether to add an oral exam as a course assessment. Categories Assessing Learning/Teaching Tips Comments: 0
November 22, 2022 Creating a Harmonized Assessment Tool for Capstone Projects Reading Time: 4 minutes Capstone projects showcase students’ comprehensive learning. Conestoga’s Computer Science programs host a capstone project at the end of each semester – an opportunity for students... Categories Faculty Stories Comments: 0
November 8, 2022 5 Benefits of Fully Online Learning for Students and Employers Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s 2021 National Survey of Online and Digital Learning found that nation-wide there is a “growing preference for online learning options and an increased expectation... Categories Online Asynchronous/Teaching Tips Comments: 0
November 8, 2022 Lesson Planning Ideas for Digital Texts Reading Time: 5 minutes These lesson planning suggestions were collaboratively compiled by faculty participants in the 2019 workshop “Bringing eTexts to Life”. Categories OERs and eTexts/Tech For Teaching Comment: 1
October 28, 2022 Messaging Your Fully Online Learners Reading Time: 5 minutes If you deliver an asynchronous online course, you already send Announcements and emails to share information and reminders to students. But how do you encourage... Categories Online Asynchronous/Teaching Tips Comments: 0
October 25, 2022 Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion... Categories Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching Tips Comments: 0
October 18, 2022 Indigenous Resources Reading Time: < 1 minutes The following is a message from Conestoga College’s Library Services department Whether for self-education or as learning resources for your students, consider exploring the library’s... Categories Faculty Services/Library Services Comments: 0
September 8, 2022 Adult Learning Principles for College Teaching Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we be sure our practices reflect the fact that all of our students are adult learners? Conestoga’s youngest students are 17 year-olds who... Categories Reflective Practice/Teaching Tips Comments: 2
September 2, 2022 Developmental Review of Fully Online Teaching Reading Time: 5 minutes The Teaching and Learning Department offers a developmental review of asynchronous teaching to support faculty who are teaching fully asynchronous courses. Categories Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching Tips Comments: 0
August 15, 2022 Language Use in the Conestoga Classroom Reading Time: 5 minutes By Kathryn Brillinger and Laura Stoutenburg Chira (2017) interviewed over 70 international students in Canada to explore how they “anticipate, experience and negotiate their statuses... Categories Teaching Tips Comments: 0
