Teaching

January 16, 2024

Promote Student Self-Monitoring in an Asynchronous Online Course

Reading Time: 3 minutes You begin teaching an asynchronous online course, and you have taken the initiative to welcome your students with an announcement and welcome video. Now, as...

Class Management/Online Asynchronous

December 13, 2023

Using Exemplars to Support Student Success with Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes Exemplars are “carefully chosen samples of student work which are used to illustrate dimensions of quality and to clarify assessment expectations” (Carless & Chan, 2017,...

Assessment Quick Guides/Giving Feedback

November 30, 2023

Connecting Active Learning Activities and Assessments to Sustainability

Reading Time: 3 minutes Laura Matheson, an educator since 2008, joined Conestoga College in 2013 to develop and teach in the Sustainable Business Management post-graduate program. Passionate about education,...

Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Educational Development Opportunities/Faculty Stories/Group Work/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 27, 2023

The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you considering inviting students to use generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in completing an assessment in your course? Is knowledge of genAI required for workplace...

AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching

November 24, 2023

Searching for AI and Teaching Information

Reading Time: 6 minutes Topics and ideas for searching for GenAI and education

AI and Teaching/Teaching

November 22, 2023

Utilizing eConestoga with your In-Person and Synchronous Teaching

Reading Time: 3 minutes Explore your teaching approach and engage your students from the very beginning by unlocking the full potential of your eConestoga course shell – not just as a digital extension but as a dynamic tool that enhances your student’s learning experiences.

Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 20, 2023

Pacing

Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever struggled to fit all of the weekly content you need to cover into your one or two-hour class meeting and noticed yourself...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 14, 2023

Strategies and scripts you can use when encountering common classroom management challenges

Reading Time: < 1 minute At one point or another in your teaching career, you’re likely to encounter classroom management challenges. Some of the most common include: Our team has...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Teaching

November 8, 2023

Teaching In Person: Delivery Skills

Reading Time: 3 minutes This tip will provide suggestions for combining space, technology, and your own presence to help capture and hold your students’ attention.

Class Management/Teaching

October 26, 2023

Proctoring Technologies for Test & Exams

Reading Time: 3 minutes Effective test and exam proctoring is an important part of the work that we do as faculty to ensure integrity and create supportive spaces for...

Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

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