January 30, 2024 Leveraging Peer Feedback as a Learning Tool Reading Time: 4 minutes Peer feedback or review refers to a process where students review and make judgements about the work of their peers (Nicole et al., 2014). During... Categories Assessing Learning/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
January 25, 2024 Active Learning Ideas Reading Time: 11 minutes The ideas here are in alphabetical order. This is not an exhaustive list of active learning ideas and many of these ideas may be adapted... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching
January 24, 2024 Decoding AI Hype for Teaching and Learning Reading Time: 4 minutes An article that discusses the hype around generative AI, and ideas to respond to it in the context of teaching and learning. Categories AI and Teaching/Getting Started with AI
January 23, 2024 Email Templates Responding to Suspected Student Use of Generative AI Reading Time: 4 minutes In this Hub post, we will explore three scenarios in which you may need to contact students by email to express concern about suspected use... Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessment Challenges
January 17, 2024 Want to Improve Learning? It’s Easy as Repeat, Repeat, Repeat. Reading Time: 6 minutes We all want our students to remember what we teach them. This is a reasonable expectation considering all that time you spent preparing lessons, activities... Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice
January 17, 2024 Planning Ahead for the Last Weeks of Semester Reading Time: 3 minutes Managing the last few weeks of the semester can be a busy and stressful time for you and your students. Here a few tips to... Categories Lesson and Course Planning/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... Categories 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,... Categories 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,... Categories 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... Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching
