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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Digital Pedagogy Project Focus Groups: Call for Participants!

Calling fellow Carleton instructors! How do you use digital media in the classroom? As part of our Digital Pedagogy Project, we are seeking your participation in a focus group with fellow Carleton instructors to explore their perceptions of digital media in their teaching, specifically through open educational resources (OERs) and multimedia... More

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Digital Pedagogy Project enters its final year

Our team is regrouping for the third and final year of our project. We are still collecting data, and working with instructors, but are now more seriously thinking about how to share what we’ve learned so far. We are working on conference presentations and a publication, and continuing to look for ways to connect... More

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Digital Pedagogy Project at InspirED Symposium

Last month, our project participated in InspirED: CU Teaching Innovation Symposium. The symposium was a vibrant and informative event that featured sessions on a variety of pedagogical issues and practices. We were pleased to share some of our observations from the Digital Pedagogy Project, and Vincent Andrisani also delivered two additional... More

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Navigating Copyright Workshop

In the fall term, our project hosted Valerie Critchley, Carleton’s Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian for a session on copyright. Valerie offered a comprehensive overview of legal underpinnings of copyright, the scope of copyright laws, and the range of scholarly activities that may involve copyright considerations, from the... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

“From Research Assistantships to Beyond”: a workshop on RAships, transferable skills, and communicating experience

What are transferable skills and why do they matter for research assistants? As a part of our broader research initiative, the Digital Pedagogy Project is developing an open-access module on transferable skills for research assistants. Inspired by the need for more pedagogical support for research assistants at Carleton University (and elsewhere),... More

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Higher Education in Times of Disruption: Carleton University/UOttawa event

Supra-Institutional Learning Communities (SILC) initiative brings together colleagues from Carleton University and University of Ottawa interested in discussing new insights and developments in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Among other activities, SILC organized two virtual cross-institutional panels this academic year, to discuss the... More

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Status Update: 2023 in Review

Over the past year, the Digital Pedagogy Project has launched several new stages of our research project. With community connections and open-access resources in mind, the Digital Pedagogy Project is working with instructors and research assistants to create open access educational materials (OERs) as well as multimedia pedagogical resources for... More

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Accessibility in Course Design Workshop

As part of our efforts to improve accessibility in teaching and learning, the Digital Pedagogy Project was pleased to have Dr. Melanie Coughlin deliver a workshop in November. Dr. Coughlin offered tips on specific strategies to make course materials accessible, and also provided nuanced guidance on how to think about the problem of inaccessibility... More

Monday, December 18, 2023

Dr. Melanie Coughlin and Saar Karam, creating multimedia-based learning reflection activities in PHIL 2700

Dr. Melanie Coughlin has been teaching philosophy and religion at Carleton since 2013 and is a member of the Disability Justice and Crip Culture Research Lab. Her research specializes in Japanese Buddhist philosophy and its contemporary applications in social philosophy. Within the Digital Pedagogy Project, Melanie is working with Saar to create... More

Monday, December 11, 2023

Martha Attridge Bufton and Alesya Moshchenskaya, applying student learning through role playing in FYSM 1001

Martha Attridge Bufton is the the Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian at the Carleton University Library. And Alesya Moshchenskaya is currently pursing a graduate degree in Industrial Design, also at Carleton University. The two are working on a project associated with a first-year seminar course being co-taught by Martha Attridge Bufton titled... More

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Alisdair MacRae & Kimia Tajmir, enhancing student participation in IDES 1000

Alisdair MacRae is an instructor for the School of Industrial Design, currently teaching an introductory course on the theory and history of Industrial Design (IDES 1000). For the Digital Pedagogy Project, he is working with former teaching assistant and Master’s of Design candidate Kimia Tajmir to add multimedia elements to non-graded review... More

Monday, November 6, 2023

Dr. Lindsay Richardson, working on student success in PSYC1001

Lindsay Richardson is a Carleton alumna who has completed her BA (hons), MA, and PhD in cognitive psychology. Her area of research focuses mainly on educational cognition with a keen interest in optimizing students’ academic success. Lindsay is piloting a project for the Digital Pedagogy Project that revises a small portion of the PSYC1001... More

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