Search Results for: active learning

May 8, 2023

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER Support at Conestoga

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are one aspect of Open Educational Practices (OEP) underpinned by pedagogies like constructivism, critical digital pedagogy, and social...

Categories Teaching

March 28, 2023

Strengthen Your Teaching Through Instructional Skills Workshops (ISWs)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Conestoga faculty can register for an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) to enhance their lesson planning techniques and teaching practices. As of January 2023, the ISW...

Categories Build Community/Events/Reflective Practice/Teaching

March 17, 2023

When Students are Absent From Class 

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for ways to promote attendance and respond to absence. Use these tips throughout the semester.

Categories Build Community/Class Management

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...

Categories eConestoga/Licensed Apps and Pilots/Teaching/Tech For 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. 

Categories In-person/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

August 8, 2022

Finding Videos

Reading Time: 4 minutes Video is an engaging way to draw learners in, diversify instruction and model skills. Finding and curating accessible, captioned videos for learning is becoming easier...

Categories Multimedia/Online Synchronous/Tech For Teaching

July 18, 2022

What To Do in the First Weeks of Class

Reading Time: 9 minutes This teaching tip provides a checklist of what you can do in the first week or two of class to share important information and create...

Categories Build Community/Teaching

Nasreen Sultana, PhD

Teaching and Learning Consultant I have a PhD in Education from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, fully funded by Queen’s Graduate and other internal awards. My...

June 23, 2022

What is Asynchronous (Online) Teaching 

Reading Time: 5 minutes Reflect on your teaching activities for a fully or partly asynchronous course.

Categories Online Asynchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching

Nancy Nelson

Director – Teaching Innovation About Nancy An award-winning teacher and educator in Engineering, Nelson has long served as a leader and pioneer in the implementation...