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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
By Olga Makinina, Contract Instructor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies ESLA credit courses are designed to help students whose first language is not English prepare for writing, reading, listening to lectures, and participating in discussions in their university classes. These courses go beyond a regular English as a Second Language... More
Friday, October 2, 2015
By: Hugh Reid, Adjunct Research Professor, Department of English Language and Literature It is a course without a prescribed reading list, without distinct seminar topics to discuss, with many problems and mysteries to solve, without any guarantee that the problems and mysteries will be solved or resolved. And it spends most of its time... More
Thursday, August 27, 2015
By: Leanne Barber, CUOL Office Administrator You may already be aware of the Student Centre located in D299 Loeb Building, but did you know that CUOL offers another service from that location? The Carleton University Testing Centre (CUTC) provides ‘Grade A’ service to various professional institutes (90+), universities and colleges across the... More
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Allie Davidson, the EDC’s ePortfolio Analyst, attended the 2015 STLHE conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. She asked Carleton staff and instructors who attended the conference what was one thing they learned from their experience at STLHE. Find out what they had to say in Allie’s video... More
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
By: Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz, EDC Instructional Designer ”Drop the term ‘styles.’ It will confuse others and it won’t help either you or your students.” – Howard Gardner, The Washington Post Op-Ed, 2013. In 1983, psychologist Howard Gardner proposed a new theory, of multiple intelligence. We have all run into this list:... More
Monday, April 28, 2014
By: Ann Clarke-Okah, Learning Outcomes Consultant & Andy Thompson, Program Assessment Coordinator, Office of Quality Assurance (Academic Programs) Many of you are already familiar with the concept of course-level learning outcomes. Perhaps you already include these statements of expected skills and competencies students will demonstrate by the... More
Monday, March 31, 2014
By: Nestor B. Querido, Supervisor, CUOL It’s Carleton University—EMCP style! Our Enrichment Mini-Courses Program, which began in 1981, is all about teaching high school students on campus. The one-week mini courses offer future undergraduates a valuable first glimpse into Carleton’s academic programs. Although it requires a lot of... More
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
By: Samah Sabra, Teaching Development Coordinator, EDC As my tour of the new Discover Centre on the fourth floor of Carleton’s MacOdrum Library ended, my head was spinning – in the best way possible. If you don’t already know this about me, part of my interdisciplinary social science graduate education was in cultural geography.... More
Monday, December 23, 2013
By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning In what has been a particularly chilly and snowy December, it’s the end of the term at Carleton and that means its crunch time for students, instructors, teaching assistants and staff at the university. Students are studying, preparing and writing exams, papers and submitting projects.... More
Monday, December 2, 2013
By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning The deadline for the Desire2Learn Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning has been announced as Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. This international award celebrates and recognizes innovation in post-secondary teaching and learning. About to enter into its third year, Carleton is proud to count professor... More
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning As I look out my office window on what is a beautiful day, I notice the leaves changing colour and formation after formation of Canada geese flying by, hustling off to fields of the Experimental Farm or the Ottawa River to rest and feed. It’s then I... More
Monday, September 9, 2013
By: Samah Sabra In September of my third year as an undergraduate student, I stood outside my department chatting with other returning students and a professor we all greatly respected and admired. As we spoke, he said: “You know, people often speak of autumn as a time of death – it’s when the leaves... More
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