Faculty Learning Hub

March 28, 2023

Strengthen Your Teaching Through Instructional Skills Workshops (ISWs)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Conestoga faculty can register for an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) to enhance their lesson planning techniques and teaching practices. As of January 2023, the ISW...

Active Learning/Building Community/Classrooms/Collaboration/Events/Group Work/Lesson Planning/Reflective Practice/Teaching Tips/Zoom or Teams

March 27, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes Conestoga College encourages teamwork and collaboration in diverse groups where students can learn from each other. Small group discussions in person or virtually help promote...

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March 17, 2023

When Students are Absent From Class

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for ways to promote attendance and respond to absence. Use these tips throughout the semester.

Hybrid/In-person/Online Synchronous

March 17, 2023

Best Practices for Open Book Testing

Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you ready to refresh the assessments in your synchronous or online asynchronous courses? As you weigh the option of an open-book test, this teaching tip will provide best practices and considerations for creating the most effective open-book assessment possible.

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March 16, 2023

Faculty Innovation 2022 – a Faculty Member’s Story 2

Reading Time: 6 minutes Amanda Tkaczyk tells about Scaffolded Carousel Assessments.

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March 16, 2023

Faculty Innovation 2022 – a Faculty Member’s Story 1

Reading Time: 6 minutes Diana Degan tells about innovations for the PR Plan assessment in the Public Relations course for the Strategic Marketing Communications program.

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March 14, 2023

When Students Are Absent from a Group Work Assignment

Reading Time: 5 minutes Ideas for steps to take when a group member has been absent from a group assignment.

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March 8, 2023

When Students Don’t Answer Questions in Class

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for reasons why students aren’t answering your questions in class and suggestions for ways to address them.

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February 27, 2023

ChatGPT and the Evolving Field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Reading Time: 17 minutes In this post, we’ll explore what ChatGPT is and try to understand how we’ve gotten to this point in AI technology in general. To begin,...

Teaching Tips

February 21, 2023

Teaching and Learning Awards 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Read on for details and instructions to submit an entry for each award.

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