Faculty Learning Hub

December 5, 2022

Learning Path – Excellent Fully Online Teaching

Reading Time: < 1 minute View this video introduction to the learning path on understanding your role and responsibilities as a faculty member delivering a fully online asynchronous course. What’s...

New Faculty/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

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/Tech For Teaching

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/Creating Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching

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/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 8, 2022

5 Benefits of Fully Online Learning for Students and Employers

Reading Time: 3 minutes 5 reasons why fully online (asynchronous) learning benefits students and employers

Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice

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...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching

October 18, 2022

Indigenous Resources

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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...

Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education/Faculty Services/Library Services

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...

Teaching/Theory and Practice

September 2, 2022

Developmental Review of Fully Online (Asynchronous) 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.

Educational Development Opportunities/Educator Development/observations/Online Asynchronous/Teaching

August 11, 2022

Teaching in a Wide Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutes This tip will provide suggestions for making the best use of wide classrooms with two projectors on side-by-side whiteboards, particularly if the first set of rows is close to the front wall so that students at each end of the first row will likely only be able to fully see one whiteboard.

In-person/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching