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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Blog: Part I: Your needs as an instructor matter in online course design

By Dr. Ashley Thompson, Contract Instructor, Department of Neuroscience This is the first of a four-part series by Neuroscience instructors on their experiences with the sudden and rapid transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When we were thrust into online teaching in March, I did not think I was ready. While... More

Monday, September 28, 2020

Blog: Jump-Start Teaching Online – A just-in-time journey to support colleagues in times of global pandemic

By Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz, Supervisor, Instructional Design, TLS March 2020 was a month when our lives abruptly changed. While still busy with our everyday tasks of teaching and supporting faculty and instructors in their teaching, Prof. Anne Trépanier (School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) and I were well aware that our colleagues and... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Blog: Boosting lecture video participation through mini-lessons

By Lindsay Richardson, Instructor, Department of Psychology & e-Learning Designer, EDC In mid-March, I found myself, like many of my colleagues, suddenly required to create an online learning experience, in lieu of designing a face-to-face (F2F) course. For many of us, this meant recording online lecture videos and asking ourselves, “How do... More

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Blog: Using cuPortfolio to Support Students and Build Course Resiliency

By Shawn O'Connor (Student, BPAPM) and John Cadham (Instructor, NPSIA)  I recall one of my first-year professors telling me the goal of higher education was to transform students from knowledge consumers to knowledge producers. In one sense, I suppose the undergraduate structure does support that goal, as students move from lectures to seminars... More

Monday, August 31, 2020

Blog: A Virtual Hug from TLS

By TLS Staff We know that moving your courses online is just one piece of life that’s been knocked out of place by Covid-19. Worse, that piece is now perched on top of a wobbly pile of other tasks and responsibilities. Wherever you’re at in your course planning and whatever your comfort level with... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Blog: Their cheatin’ hearts: Assessment online and off

By Bruce H. Tsuji, Instructor, Department of Psychology Although cheating is one of the “zombie ideas” that emerges repeatedly in conversations about online teaching (Lalonde, 2020) it is important to keep in mind that academic integrity violations happen in both online and offline environments. Yes of course, cheating happens in proctored... More

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Blog: Their cheatin’ hearts: Assessment online and off

By Bruce H. Tsuji, Instructor, Department of Psychology Although cheating is one of the “zombie ideas” that emerges repeatedly in conversations about online teaching (Lalonde, 2020) it is important to keep in mind that academic integrity violations happen in both online and offline environments. Yes of course, cheating happens in proctored... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Blog: An Effective Low-Tech Check for Learning: In Praise of Worksheets

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC So, you’ve created a series of screen-capture lecture videos and linked students to other relevant resources (videos by third-parties, readings, etc.). Your content is wonderful, rich, informative, and easy for your students to access. Excellent! But, suddenly a voice in the back of your... More

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Blog: Fragility and agility in teaching

By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics Since I started using digital technology in my teaching, I have always had a bit of anxiety for what could go wrong and when. After all, Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Still fresh in my mind are... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Teaching Online for Dummies, by a Fellow Dummy

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC So, you’ve built your course with face-to-face in mind and suddenly have to move everything online. Feel free to curse loudly and bang a few desks: I know I have. Once that’s out of the way, we can get down to the task at hand. Few things... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Tech Talks: “I’m thinking of instituting a ‘no laptop policy.’ What’s your opinion on that?”

By Kim Loenhart, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC Have you heard the term “phubbing?” It’s a combination of the word “phone” and “snubbing.” The distraction of technology is so preeminent in our minds as a society that we’re creating a whole new vocabulary set to describe it. So, not surprising then that... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Top 10 teaching tips for new instructors

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC 1. Clarify for your students, and for yourself, exactly what you want your students to do with the content that you expose them to. Be more precise than “they need to know and understand everything we read and discuss.” Think carefully, for instance, about the things that... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents

By Janel MacIntyre, Educational Technology Development Specialist, EDC Carleton has a reputation for being the most accessible university in Canada. Instructors have an important role to play in making course content more accessible for their students and in removing barriers to education. One way to remove those barriers is by creating... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Reflection in STEM

By Alan Steele, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Is reflection relevant to STEM? This was a question raised to me not too long ago and I was surprised to hear it. As an engineer in both industry and academia I’ve reflected on my work, sometimes during a challenging part of a project or perhaps... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Is there anybody out there? Online courses and the need for connecting to students

By Ali Arya, Associate Dean (Planning and Awards), Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs & Associate Professor, School of Information Technology Working from home and taking online courses are not new phenomena, but the COVID-19 global crisis made them household topics for all of us. Online courses saved our winter term (thanks to the... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Reflections on online teaching

By Andrea Chandler, Professor, Department of Political Science As a professor in the Department of Political Science here at Carleton, I made a sudden shift from in-class teaching to online teaching in mid-March 2020. Like my colleagues at Carleton, and at institutions elsewhere in Canada and the world, I had not expected to have... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Blog: Considerations for teaching online this summer: The value of asynchronous delivery

By Allie Davidson, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC As you gear up to teach online this term, you will need to consider what format your online teaching will take. Your first assumption might be to just move your classes online – teach synchronously, live streaming your lectures from Zoom or BigBlueButton. While at... More

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Blog: Creating an online course in a hurry? Here are five things I learned during my own moment of crisis

By Ian Wereley, Contract Instructor, Department of History With the recent COVID-19 virus outbreak and the closure of universities across Canada, many of Carleton’s professors and instructors will be transferring their course material to an online environment. This unprecedented shift will create a host of new challenges and points of... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Blog: Reflections on online teaching

By Andrea Chandler, Professor, Department of Political Science As a professor in the Department of Political Science here at Carleton, I made a sudden shift from in-class teaching to online teaching in mid-March 2020. Like my colleagues at Carleton, and at institutions elsewhere in Canada and the world, I had not expected to have... More

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Blog: Considerations for teaching online this summer: The value of asynchronous delivery

By Allie Davidson, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC As you gear up to teach online this term, you will need to consider what format your online teaching will take. Your first assumption might be to just move your classes online - teach synchronously, live streaming your lectures from Zoom or BigBlueButton. While at first... More

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Blog: Teaching Online for Dummies, by a Fellow Dummy

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC So, you’ve built your course with face-to-face in mind and suddenly have to move everything online. Feel free to curse loudly and bang a few desks: I know I have. Once that’s out of the way, we can get down to the task at hand. Few things... More

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Blog: Teaching Online for Dummies, by a Fellow Dummy

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC So, you’ve built your course with face-to-face in mind and suddenly have to move everything online. Feel free to curse loudly and bang a few desks: I know I have. Once that’s out of the way, we can get down to the task at hand. Few things... More

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Blog: “So, you’re saying it wasn’t already perfect?”: A chat about program review with Food Science instructors

With support from the EDC, instructors for Carleton’s Food Science program hold an annual retreat to discuss 3-4 different courses and their relationship to the larger program. Everything is up for discussion: they review and clarify the learning outcomes for each course; strive to align those outcomes with the next course in the program... More

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Blog: “So, you’re saying it wasn’t already perfect?”: A chat about program review with Food Science instructors

With support from the EDC, instructors for Carleton’s Food Science program hold an annual retreat to discuss 3-4 different courses and their relationship to the larger program. Everything is up for discussion: they review and clarify the learning outcomes for each course; strive to align those outcomes with the next course in the program... More

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Tech Talks: “I’m thinking of instituting a ‘no laptop policy.’ What’s your opinion on that?”

By Kim Loenhart, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC Have you heard the term “phubbing?” It’s a combination of the word “phone” and “snubbing.” The distraction of technology is so preeminent in our minds as a society that we’re creating a whole new vocabulary set to describe it. So, not surprising then that... More

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Top 10 teaching tips for new instructors

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC 1. Clarify for your students, and for yourself, exactly what you want your students to do with the content that you expose them to. Be more precise than “they need to know and understand everything we read and discuss.” Think carefully, for instance, about the things that... More

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Blog: Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents

By Janel MacIntyre, Educational Technology Development Specialist, EDC Carleton has a reputation for being the most accessible university in Canada. Instructors have an important role to play in making course content more accessible for their students and in removing barriers to education. One way to remove those barriers is by creating... More

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Blog: Creating accessible Microsoft Word documents

By Janel MacIntyre, Educational Technology Development Specialist, EDC Carleton has a reputation for being the most accessible university in Canada. Instructors have an important role to play in making course content more accessible for their students and in removing barriers to education. One way to remove those barriers is by creating... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Blog: Reflection in STEM

By Alan Steele, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics Is reflection relevant to STEM? This was a question raised to me not too long ago and I was surprised to hear it. As an engineer in both industry and academia I’ve reflected on my work, sometimes during a challenging part of a project or perhaps... 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

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

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

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

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, February 20, 2019

Blog: Embedding change as a principle in our pedagogy

By Morgan Rooney, Educational Development Coordinator, EDC Change is hard. It can be hard to see when it’s necessary, or to envision concretely what it might look like, or to actually implement it. When it comes to teaching, there are a lot of factors working against change: our workload, our perceptions of ourselves and... More

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