Archives: News

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Celebrating Teaching Excellence at Carleton

Carleton University has a rich history of teaching excellence. Teaching and Learning Services is inviting the Carleton community to join us on Feb. 14 from 2-4 p.m. as we recognize our teaching award winners, as well as those who have been nominated by students to receive a Raving Raven. In addition to celebrating these... More

Monday, January 28, 2019

Tools of the trade: Technology and the classroom

By Matthew Curtis, Fourth-Year Journalism, Carleton University Digital tools can make you laugh, cry, wonder at the marvels of human ingenuity, and want to control alt delete their existence, but love them or hate them they’re in the classroom and, in most cases, here to stay. The following Carleton instructors recently facilitated a Welcome... More

Monday, January 28, 2019

Adding Interactive Web Experiences to cuLearn with H5P

Are you looking for a new way to add interactivity to your content or assignments? If so, it’s time you discovered H5P! H5P empowers everyone to create rich, interactive web experiences, either embedded within cuLearn or as a web tool. With almost 40 different activity types available, you are sure to find options to... More

Friday, January 25, 2019

Engineering Student Developing Software to Support Health-Care Research

When Naman Sethi started his degree last year at Carleton University, he hoped that one day he could use his education and experience to make a contribution to the health-care field. He didn’t realize his chance to make an impact would come so soon. The second-year Software Engineering student is one of 67 Carleton... More

Thursday, January 24, 2019

I-CUREUS Spotlight

One of our current participating teams for I-CUREUS—MacKenzie Brannen and Professor Oren Petel—have had a feature story written on their research. MacKenzie Brannen, a 3rd-year Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering student, has been aiding Professor Petel on his continued research and testing for improved helmet testing since the Fall term.... More

Thursday, January 24, 2019

cuLearn Assignments and Rubrics

cuLearn offers a variety of assignment configuration settings to help you control every aspect of assignment submissions, including release and end dates, access restrictions, and other options. Join us on Jan. 31 from 10 a.m. - noon for a hands-on workshop that will give you the opportunity to explore different types of assignments and... More

Monday, January 21, 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

Friday, January 18, 2019

Follow @CU_Teaching on Twitter

Looking for another way to stay up-to-date on the latest teaching and learning news, innovations and resources at Carleton and beyond? Teaching and Learning Services has officially launched a new Twitter account to help you do just that! Follow @CU_Teaching for the latest information on workshops, teaching tips, award and grant opportunities, LMS... More

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Designing Learning from Scratch

When we begin designing a learning experience, sometimes we are uncertain how to start and the task quickly appears to be a more complex challenge then we anticipated. Join us on Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. - noon and we'll introduce you to a teaching framework and pedagogical strategies that will help you design... More

Monday, January 14, 2019

Putting Your Course “on the Map”: Designing Courses that Align with Your Program’s 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

Friday, January 11, 2019

Learning Outcomes: Blueprints for Course Design

Most simply defined, learning outcomes describe what learners are supposed to know, be able to do, or value at the end of a course or module. In the same way that we tell students that their papers should have an argument or thesis statement that guides what they write, effective learning outcomes should guide... More

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund: Deadline is almost here

The deadline to apply for the first round of funding for the Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund (CUELF) is Jan. 14. The Provost established the fund to: Increase the number of experiential learning opportunities for Carleton students Enhance existing experiential learning opportunities Build awareness of experiential learning at... More

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