Teaching

December 19, 2024

Generative AI Guidebook for Teaching

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Conestoga Generative AI Guidebook for Teaching is a new digital resource designed to help faculty navigate the evolving landscape of generative AI in higher education.

AI/Getting Started with AI/Teaching

December 18, 2024

How Gamification Supports Learning

Reading Time: 6 minutesGamification is incorporating game elements into non-game contexts. In education, this often involves using game elements like points, badges, leaderboards, and challenges to make learning...

Gamification/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

December 15, 2024

Universal Design for Learning: An Introduction

Reading Time: 3 minutesThink back to when you were in school – elementary through post-secondary. How often were you given opportunities to showcase how you learned that was...

Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

December 10, 2024

AI Savvy Rubrics for Writing Assignments

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Elan Paulson and Ada Sharpe Rubrics can reinforce expectations about how to use or not use generative AI (AI) in writing assignments. This post...

AI/AI and Assessment/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

December 4, 2024

Making Learning Comprehensible: Build it, Model it!

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat does making learning comprehensible mean? Are you being understood by your students and helping them retain information they are learning? Scaffolding and Modelling foster engagement and increase student success.

Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 26, 2024

From Anonymous to Acknowledged: The Benefits of Using Student Names in Teaching

Reading Time: 4 minutesEarly in my teaching career, a student told me that I was the only professor who had so far remembered her request to call her...

Build Community/Class Management/Teaching

November 18, 2024

Kyle Christie Empowers Students with Video Lessons, Interactive Learning and Goal-Setting

Reading Time: 3 minutesKyle Christie is a Digital Media Professor and coordinator of the Broadcasting Performance and Digital Media program at Conestoga College. Recognized for his excellence in...

Faculty Stories/Giving Feedback/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

November 18, 2024

My Favourite Lesson Season 2! (A Teaching and Learning Podcast Series)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe know many of you tuned in last year when Season One of My Favourite Lesson was first released. Season One featured experienced faculty from...

Teaching

November 7, 2024

Teaching in Teams

Reading Time: 5 minutesAt Conestoga, some Faculty may use Teams to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use...

Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

November 6, 2024

Using GenAI as a Learning Partner in Class

Reading Time: 5 minutesDorina Grossu shares her approach to using genAI for inquiry-based learning and ideas for faculty who wish to bring AI to active learning in the classroom.

AI/AI and Learning/Faculty Stories/Teaching

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