- Enable and encourage pedagogical practices and curricular designs that foster student engagement, access, inclusion and success
- Promote and reward engagement, innovation, and excellence in teaching and learning
- Offer new and flexible opportunities for student-centred learning
- Engage Indigenous knowledge to build new ways of teaching and learning
Enable and encourage pedagogical practices and curricular designs that foster student engagement, access, inclusion and success
- Promote student-centred teaching practices that foster deep learning and student success in physical and virtual classrooms by:
- Enabling the Future Learning Lab as a space for teaching innovations, interdisciplinary collaborations, and scholarship;
- Continuing to invest in learning spaces on campus (classrooms, library, and ad hoc study spaces) and ensuring that they encourage student-centred pedagogical approaches, are flexible, and can accommodate the diverse pedagogical needs of learners and instructors, including Indigenous ways of knowing;
- Establishing an Experiential Learning Hub, equipped with immersive extended reality (XR) technologies to strengthen students’ learning experiences and facilitate teaching innovation;
- Continuing to expand digital modules for Carleton’s Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles and increasing the number of instructors and courses that adopt them;
- Increasing the number of digital learning offerings in collaboration with Faculties;
- Continuing collaboration with Faculties to identify courses and programs that would benefit from flexible learning options (e.g., HyFlex, online, blended);
- Collaborating and supporting instructors developing innovative pedagogical approaches in virtual and/or in person courses; and
- Continuing to ensure that our teaching practices are informed by the extraordinary research taking place at Carleton and elsewhere.
- Provide experiential opportunities for students from different programs or degrees to co-create and contribute to learning (e.g., through the Students as Partners Program)
- Establish new community and industry partnerships with organizations that share our values related to teaching, learning, and research
- Support the Centre for Community Engagement and the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Community Engagement
- Implement the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Plan, particularly as it relates to exploring potential programming with a focus on decolonized, EDI-centred knowledge production; creating an interdisciplinary research cluster focused on processes of racialization and racial inequality; and promoting EDI-related interdisciplinary collaboration through the creation of an EDI Scholars Index
Additional information about Carleton’s activities in this area is available in the Strategic Plan for Community Engagement (SP4CE) and the EDI Action Plan
Promote and reward engagement, innovation, and excellence in teaching and learning
Maintain and enhance good relationships with external partners, such as the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Council of Ontario Universities- Celebrate and promote successes while emphasizing impact on society, impact on regulatory framework, and potential economic development
- Undertake a review of courses or components of courses in Faculties and academic units that are most effective in face-to-face format and consider what might be more effective through online learning
- Continue to provide support for the Deans’ Working Group for EDI-focused Pedagogy that can be applied in respective areas
- Continue to support the Achievement Awards, Teaching Excellence Awards, Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation, Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching, New Faculty Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching, Excellence in Learning Support Award
- Continue to support innovation through internal funding for the Future Learning Innovation Fellowship, Course Transformation Fun
d, Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, Teaching Development Grant and the Contract Instructor Teaching Innovation Grant
Offer new and flexible opportunities for student-centred learning
- Create more digital experiences; provide flexible professional development for teaching teams; and integrate discrete skills into academic programming
- Create new collaborative spaces to encourage collaboration among faculty, staff, and student groups
- Identify new programs that are inherently interdisciplinary within and across Faculties, including program options such as concentrations, minors and concurrent diplomas
- Collaborate with campus partners to develop attractive programs or credentials (similar to Carleton Leader) for students, that foster experiential learning, interdisciplinary exploration, transferable skills, leadership in different forms, cultural awareness, and inclusive principles
- Establish a human rights module to provide training for all students, faculty, and staff
- Develop stackable certificates, recognizing that students may not always want to be on campus to do their learning
- Make learning possible in discrete modules to enhance student success and retention; collaborate with units to develop proposals for flexible, adaptable learning that could appeal to non-traditional students and could lead to the ability to offer modules or courses on-site in community
- Implement policies to allow for non-traditional forms of learning (e.g., volunteerism, work-integrated learning, community-civic engagement) to be counted toward academic credit where possible
Additional information about Carleton’s activities in this area is available in Shaping the Future: Carleton’s Digital Strategy and Roadmap; and the EDI Action Plan
Engage Indigenous knowledge to build new ways of teaching and learning
- Implement the calls to action (particularly 15 to 22 related to teaching and learning) outlined in the Kinàmàgawin report
- Continue to support the Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles project, which continues to gain momentum as additional bundles are developed
Additional information about Carleton’s activities in this area is available in the Kinàmàgawin report