June 15, 2020

What Faculty Should Know About Contract Cheating

Reading Time: 5 minutesInformation and insights for faculty about contract cheating and college students, by Cory Scurr, Academic Integrity Coordinator.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Grading & Grading Tools/Inclusive Teaching/Quality Assessment/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning

May 29, 2020

Faculty Answer Questions from Tech@Conestoga Panel

Reading Time: 15 minutesAdditional answers by faculty panelists to questions asked by attendees of the Day 1 Faculty Panel at Tech@Conestoga Days.

Categories Effective Teaching/Events/Inclusive Teaching/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice

May 29, 2020

Taking Class Attendance

Reading Time: 5 minutesIdeas for ways to take attendance in in-person and synchronous online classes.

Categories Effective Teaching/Hybrid/In-Person/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning

May 18, 2020

Help Students Build Dispute Resolution Skills for Group Work

Reading Time: 3 minutesMichael Quartermain describes online dispute resolution resources available for faculty use.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning

May 12, 2020

The First Two Weeks: Icebreakers in Online Learning Environments

Reading Time: 5 minutesA teaching tip with examples of synchronous and asynchronous ice breakers for remote classes.

Categories Effective Teaching/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

May 4, 2020

My First Time Teaching Online: My Learning Curve

Reading Time: 3 minutesA reflection on instruction in a remote teaching environment for the first time, and lessons learned.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning

May 1, 2020

The Benefits of Engaging the Senses in Lessons

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis teaching tip provides some insight into brain functioning to understand why certain teaching strategies—such as activities that appeal to the human senses–are good for learning.

Categories Effective Teaching/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning

May 1, 2020

Northern Lessons on Collaboration and Feedback

Reading Time: 5 minutesJoel Beaupré shares experience and lessons learned about collaboration and feedback in his first years of teaching in Northern Ontario.

Categories Effective Teaching/Reflective Practice

April 24, 2020

Supporting Student Well-Being

Reading Time: 2 minutesResources to support students’ mental health and well being as they learn remotely.

Categories Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Teaching for Learning

April 17, 2020

Group Work in Fully Online Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis Teaching Tip provides a summary of selected research literature that offers suggestions for supporting learners and reducing conflict in group-based learning within remote courses.

Categories Effective Teaching/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

April 16, 2020

Universal Design for Learning for Teaching

Reading Time: 2 minutesRecommendations to maximize the ability for students with disabilities to fully and meaningfully participate in all aspects of the virtual learning environment and may also benefit other student populations.

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching

March 28, 2020

Managing Communication in Online Synchronous Classes

Reading Time: 4 minutesTeaching tips that respond to common scenarios that can arise in the remote synchronous classroom, including chat talk, interruptions, oversharing, silence, and unwelcome participants.

Categories Effective Teaching/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

March 1, 2020

Copyright Considerations for the Online Learning Environment

Reading Time: 3 minutesUse this Q&A guide to find answers to some of your copyright questions related to virtual teaching.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Services/Lesson & Course Planning/Library Services/Online Synchronous

February 14, 2020

Necesito OER

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post was written by Dr. Rita Palacios, faculty at Conestoga College about experiences in writing and creating Open Education Resources (OER) for courses. In Search of OER for Language Teaching As a language teacher, I’ve always had to work with language textbooks, which tend to be expensive and a bit rigid in their overall approach to language. Most language...

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Inclusive EdTech Use/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

January 15, 2020

Games for Teaching Academic Integrity

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post describes teaching academic integrity using games, and lists a selection of available games that can be adapted for your in-person, hybrid, or asynchronous course. Games for Learning The term serious games refers to games that aim to inform and educate within or outside the classroom (Susi, Johannesson, & Backlund, 2007). Gamification and games-based learning can provide a fun, low-stakes, and cooperative approach towards course content (Khan, Dyer, Bjelobaba, et...

Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Effective Teaching/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching