Faculty Learning Hub

August 9, 2022

Teaching and Learning Awards 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes We invite you to participate in the second annual competition of the Conestoga Faculty Innovation Award and the Conestoga Faculty Scholarship of Teaching & Learning...

Awards Comments: 0

December 1, 2022

Flip Video Discussion Forums

Reading Time: 4 minutes Flip (formerly FlipGrid) is a Microsoft product that allows you to build engaging video discussion forums. Conestoga faculty have used this tool to invite students...

eConestoga/Licensed Apps and Pilots/Teaching Tips/Tech For Teaching Comments: 0

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.

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...

Faculty Stories Comments: 2

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...

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”.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching Tips Comments: 0