Faculty Learning Hub

August 9, 2022

Inaugural Teaching and Learning Awards 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes We invite you to participate in the inaugural competition for two new teaching awards at Conestoga College: the Conestoga Faculty Innovation Award and the Conestoga...

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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...

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September 2, 2022

Developmental Review of Asynchronous 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.

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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...

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August 11, 2022

Teaching in a Wide Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutes This tip will provide suggestions for making the best use of wide classrooms with two projectors on side-by-side whiteboards, particularly if the first set of rows is close to the front wall so that students at each end of the first row will likely only be able to fully see one whiteboard.

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August 10, 2022

Pathway – Timetable and Delivery Mode

Reading Time: < 1 minute This learning path helps you to find out your teaching schedule: how, when, and where you are teaching your course.

New Faculty Pathways Comment: 1

August 10, 2022

Pathway – Reading your Course Outline

Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you getting ready to teach a course for the first time? Your course outline is a map to help guide you. This walkthrough will help clarify how best to read your course outline.

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August 8, 2022

Finding Videos

Reading Time: 4 minutes Video is an engaging way to draw learners in, diversify instruction and model skills. Finding and curating accessible, captioned videos for learning is becoming easier...

Multimedia/Online Synchronous/Tech For Teaching Comment: 1

August 8, 2022

Boost your YouTube Use

Reading Time: 2 minutes YouTube is an excellent source of varied video materials, and much of it can be used for educational purposes. But sometimes, it can be a...

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August 8, 2022

Finding Images

Reading Time: 2 minutes Images add relevance and interest to presentations and help diversify instruction. This page will connect you with a variety of sources to find images for teaching, and some tips for adding them to presentations.

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