Monday, June 10, 2019

Get a 360-degree view of convocation

Carleton University OnLine and the Media Production Centre are providing a 360-degree live video stream of this week's convocation ceremonies. You can experience the 360 video on your desktop computer, mobile device or with a virtual reality (VR) headset, such as Oculus or Google... More

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Putting Your Course on the Map: Designing Courses that Align with Your Programs Learning Outcomes

Too often, the course design process can be a solitary, isolated experience. This is especially true if you’re relatively new to a department or a contract instructor: it is not always easy to infer what precisely your department hopes a course will achieve or how it relates to the larger program. The good news,... More

Monday, May 27, 2019

Blog: Emotional Learners

By Ali Arya, Associate Dean (Planning and Awards), Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and Associate Professor, School of Information Technology A few years ago, I had a bright and enthusiastic student in one of my first-year classes who was always cheerful and eager to get involved in many academic and extracurricular activities, from... More

Friday, May 24, 2019

Using images and videos to improve learning

Images, graphics, videos and other visual elements have the potential to add powerful appeal to your course. Good visual design can also enhance your students’ comprehension of course materials. This June, we're offering two mini "bootcamps" to help you incorporate images and videos into your courses in meaningful ways. Using Images to Improve... More

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Take advantage of our Course Design Fundamentals experience this June 18-21

Course Design Fundamentals consists of five workshops appropriate for Carleton instructors wishing to cultivate essential course design strategies, regardless of years of experience, teaching modality, or class size. This program is designed to help you receive formal recognition while you revisit the foundational principles of course design and... More

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

To Cheat, or Not to Cheat–That is Not the Question: Preventing Plagiarism through Design

Are plagiarized student papers driving you to your wits’ end? Then join us at the EDC on June 6 from 10-11:30 a.m. for an interactive workshop that will consider how we can use course design to reduce opportunities for plagiarized writing assignments. As Hamlet (never) said, “The design’s the thing / From which student... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

“What Are They Thinking?”: Collecting Feedback from Your Students

When students don’t do so well on part of an assignment or struggle with a concept, we often wonder in exasperation, “What are they thinking, anyway?” Understanding our students’ confusion and misunderstandings, however, doesn’t require the power of divination or any other magical art. All we need to do is simply ask them. Join... More

Monday, May 13, 2019

What to expect from the BigBlueButton update

By Sabina Hajizada, Educational Technology Specialist, EDC BigBlueButton (BBB) is a web conferencing tool that allows instructors and TAs to host live online presentations, seminars, office hours, or other meetings from cuLearn. We have recently moved to a new and improved version of BBB that has some notable changes to the interface. You might... More

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Welcome to My Classroom: Specifications Grading

In a recent article in Inside Higher Education, a group of experts on student learning described the current state of assessment as a “hot mess.” Instructors can certainly evaluate individual assignments and provide beneficial feedback to individual students. As we scale up to the course, the program, or the institution, however, grades’... More

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Deadline for Carleton University Teaching Awards extended

The deadline for the Carleton University Teaching Awards has been extended until May 31 at midnight. Teaching and Learning Services is currently accepting applications for four awards: Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award: recognizes faculty and contract instructors dedicated to sustained excellence in teaching, scholarship of teaching and the... More

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

LMS review update – May 2019

We are continuing to make progress with the Learning Management System (LMS) review. Recall that Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is conducting a review of cuLearn (our LMS) to ensure that it meets the current and anticipated needs of our students, instructors, teaching assistants and staff members. We are about to wrap up our... More

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

BigBlueButton – Online Classes and Virtual Office Hours

BigBlueButton is a web conferencing tool that makes synchronous teaching and learning at a distance possible. It provides a great opportunity to try out a whole new style of hybrid teaching, whether or not you have experience teaching online or would just like to hold online office hours, have an exam review or host... More

Monday, May 6, 2019

Blog: Personalized education

By Ali Arya, Associate Dean (Planning and Awards), Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and Associate Professor, School of Information Technology While the number of university students has increased in the last few decades, the rising cost of university education, the introduction of online methods of acquiring knowledge, and more recent... More

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Anne Trépanier receives 2019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), in partnership with D2L, have awarded Anne Trépanier, a professor in Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, with a 2019 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. The award recognizes educators who are redefining the learning experience through... More

Friday, April 26, 2019

Introducing the New cuLearn (Moodle 3.6): A Guided Tour

Exciting new changes are coming to cuLearn in May 2019! Let the EDC be your tour guide as we explore the upgraded system together. We'll be offering four short sessions in early May to take you on a visual tour of the newly upgraded cuLearn interface, its additional features, and enhanced functionality.    The... More

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Exciting changes coming to cuLearn with an upgrade in May

In early May, Carleton will be upgrading our learning management system, cuLearn, from version 3.1.12 to 3.6.3. The upgrade will provide a clean, modern interface with many useful improvements to the existing functionality. While we complete this upgrade, cuLearn will be unavailable starting at noon on Friday, May 3 until 7 a.m. on Monday,... More

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

The nomination deadline for Carleton University Teaching Awards and the Discovery Centre Fellowship is next week

The nomination deadline for the 2019 Carleton University Teaching Awards and the Discovery Centre Fellowship is only a week away. If you are interested in pursuing an award or the fellowship, then be sure to get your application in before the deadline on April 30. Carleton University Teaching Awards There are four awards currently... More

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Discover how to engage your students with Poll Everywhere

Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems (SRS) can help you do just that! With SRS you can create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. SRS can also be used to enhance or guide discussions, track... More

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Contract Instructor Orientation Spring 2019

Get ready for the spring/summer term with a last minute course tune-up! If you’re getting ready to teach your first course at Carleton, or if you’re returning after a break, you may have questions about policies and procedures, teaching tips and educational technology. Join Teaching and Learning Services on Thursday, May 2 from 4:30-9... More

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

The nomination deadline for Carleton University Teaching Awards and the Discovery Centre Fellowship is almost here

The nomination deadline for the 2019 Carleton University Teaching Awards and the Discovery Centre Fellowship is only a few weeks away. If you are interested in pursuing an award or the fellowship, then be sure to get your application in before the deadline on April 30. Carleton University Teaching Awards There are four awards... More

Monday, April 8, 2019

A cuLearn upgrade is coming May 05

Exciting new changes are coming to cuLearn on May 05, 2019! This spring, Carleton will be upgrading the Learning Management System, cuLearn (Moodle), from version 3.1.12 to 3.6.3. The upgrade will create a clean, modern interface with many useful improvements to the existing functionality. Some changes you can look forward to are: Automatic... More

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

You’re invited to a Learning Management System Listening Session

Carleton University is in the process of reviewing its learning management system (cuLearn) to determine how to best meet the needs of our institution moving forward. As part of our review process, we would like to invite you to an LMS Listening Session. These sessions will provide an opportunity for Carleton’s teaching and learning... More

Monday, April 1, 2019

LMS Review Update April 2019

As you may know, Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is conducting a review of cuLearn to ensure that the tool that powers Carleton’s Learning Management System (LMS) meets the current and anticipated needs of our students, faculty, instructors, teaching assistants and staff members. We are currently in the listening phase of our review process... More

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

First round of projects awarded funding through CUELF

Launched by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) in October 2018, the $50,000 Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund provides faculty, instructors and learning support staff with financial support to integrate experiential learning components into academic courses or programs at Carleton. The following faculty members... More

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

cuLearn course design drop-in sessions in April

With the winter term coming to an end, the EDC will be hosting a number of cuLearn course design drop-in sessions this April to help you with your gradebook and to get you set up for a new term: April 4, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., 422 Dunton Tower April 12, 10 a.m. -... More

Monday, March 25, 2019

Blog: Emerging trends in educational technology

By Sabina Hajizada, Educational Technology Specialist, EDC A number of education-related experts and research think-tanks have made their annual predictions of the trends that will most likely dominate in the educational technology landscape this year: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Internet of Things (IoT)... More

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Screen time and face time: The triumphs and trials of teaching online

By Matthew Curtis, Fourth-Year Journalism, Carleton University From a teaching perspective, comparing face-to-face with online courses is somewhat like comparing movies with theatre. Movies take a lot of time to produce up front, but once they’re done they can be replayed, or parts of them can be used for different purposes. Theatre is live,... More

Monday, March 18, 2019

Welcome to My Classroom – Using Peer-to-Peer Approaches to Solve Common Assessment Challenges

There are some challenges in assessment that, it seems, just about every professor has to face again and again. Group projects, for instance, raise the perennial question of how to fairly evaluate the work of the group versus that of the individual student. Communicating expectations for high-stakes, end-of-term summative assessments in a way that... More

Friday, March 15, 2019

Registration open for 5th Annual Carleton U Community Connections event!

Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Carleton U Community Connections event - a morning of networking and discussions on community-campus engagement.  Purpose: Making connections between Carleton (students, faculty, academic units and professional staff) and community-based organizations in the non-profit, public and private sector.... More

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Reminder: LMS listening session tomorrow

Carleton University is in the process of reviewing its learning management system (cuLearn) to determine how to best meet the needs of our institution moving forward. As part of our review process, we would like to invite you to an LMS Listening Session. These sessions will provide an opportunity for Carleton’s teaching and learning... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Top 10 tips for designing online assessments

By Nathan White, First-Year Masters of Journalism, Carleton University At first glance, online assessments might seem more daunting than traditional papers, tests and final exams. But they don’t have to be. Whether you’re looking at using formative assessments to assess progress throughout the course, or summative assessments to evaluate... More

Monday, March 11, 2019

Get your introduction to cuPortfolio

Join us at the EDC on March 28 from 1-3 p.m. for your introduction to Carleton’s electronic portfolio technology, cuPortfolio. This session will provide an overview of ePortfolios, review how they can be used to deepen and enrich learning and assessment, and provide a hands-on introduction to cuPortfolio. During the hands-on portion of the... More

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Dynamic Duos – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, Part III

Among the many resources instructors have on hand to design and deliver their courses are support staff from the library, Teaching and Learning Services or even from their own departments. Join us on Mar. 22 from 10 a.m. - noon for a session that will explore the relationships instructors have with their support staff... More

Monday, March 4, 2019

You’re invited to a campus-wide Learning Management System Listening Session

Carleton University is in the process of reviewing its learning management system (cuLearn) to determine how to best meet the needs of our institution moving forward. As part of our review process, we would like to invite you to an LMS Listening Session. These sessions will provide an opportunity for Carleton’s teaching and learning... More

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Apply for the new Discovery Centre Fellowship

Carleton University’s Discovery Centre supports innovation in undergraduate studies and has become known as a place where different avenues to education can be explored. The Discovery Centre has established a new fellowship to provide an opportunity for Carleton faculty members to further develop or innovate their teaching and make an impact to... More

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