Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Blog: Should you ask students whether they liked the book?

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science In my course on graphic novels and political identity, I often like to open a class session by asking students whether they “liked” the book on offer that week. As an opener, it’s a softball question that can help put at ease students who might... More

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Blog: Should you ask students whether they liked the book?

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science In my course on graphic novels and political identity, I often like to open a class session by asking students whether they “liked” the book on offer that week. As an opener, it’s a softball question that can help put at ease students who might... More

Monday, May 30, 2016

Bringing classroom concepts to the virtual lab: Spotlight on Michael Donkers

By Alison Sandstrom, TLS staff writer Physics Prof. Michael Donkers believes the best way to learn is to do. “There’s nothing that beats getting down and dirty with what’s going on in the lab,” says the Carleton University contract instructor. However, students often don’t have an opportunity to explore all the theories and phenomena... More

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Limited spots available in our fast track Certificate in University Teaching program

If you've thought about joining the fast track version of our Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) program this summer, now is the time to act. There are only a few spots remaining, so register today! Facilitated by 3M teaching fellow, Dr. Anthony Marini, CUT provides a safe and supportive environment to explore new approaches to... More

Monday, May 23, 2016

Helping students see the value of a flipped classroom: Spotlight on Jeffrey Erochko

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer When most students enter a classroom, they expect to hear a professor talking at them for three hours straight. But Professor Jeffrey Erochko is hoping to change that expectation by flipping the classroom and showing students the value of class time. Erochko has been teaching structural engineering at... More

Friday, May 20, 2016

Three Carleton profs honoured with 2016 Capital Educators’ Awards

Carleton University is proud to announce that Christopher Dieni from the Institute of Biochemistry, Martin Geiger from the Department of Political Science and Nduka Otiono from the Institute of African Studies have been honoured with 2016 Capital Educators’ Awards. The three Carleton educators were among 18 winners who were celebrated during... More

Monday, May 16, 2016

Pros and cons: Debating accounting in the classroom

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer If you walked into Hilary Becker’s classroom at Carleton on any given day, you might be serenaded by salsa music or become a witness to a passionate debate between students. His course? Why, that would be accounting. Becker, an associate professor of accounting with the Sprott School of... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Blog: Metacognition in the Classroom: Engaging the Mind, Engaging the Student

By: Naba Ahsan It’s common to see instructors at the front of the lecture hall, repeatedly asking students to limit laptop usage to note taking (instead of Facebook) or disallowing cell phone usage—I’ve even come across a syllabus or two explicitly asking students to reserve sleeping for outside the classroom. Apparently, the word... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Blog: Should professors reveal their views

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Should students know a professor’s views? I read with interest a recent article in Carleton’s Teaching and Learning newsletter about those of my colleagues, who, like me, teach courses on “controversial issues.” One colleague, who teaches about animal rights, asks the... More

Monday, May 9, 2016

Archives in action

By Emma Brown, TLS Staff Writer Which is the flesh side and which is the hair side? This was one of the questions students were asked to answer in professor Marc Saurette’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies class last semester. They were examining manuscripts from Carleton’s Archives and Research Collections (ARC). The medieval documents... More

Friday, May 6, 2016

cuPortfolio pages from INDG 4000

The following cuPortfolio Projects completed by the students of  INDG 4000 Advanced Research Seminar in Indigenous Studies (Winter 2016) illustrate how the cuPortfolio platform and the internet can become a powerful teaching tool. It also illustrates another way of facilitating active student engagement with course materials in a way that is... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Blog: Captur[ing] Carleton: Engaging learners through screencasting

By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The educational psychologist, John Dewey, once said, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” In my last blog post, I wrote about my own failures at teaching today when using yesterday’s model, the lecture, and noted a few strategies... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Blog: Captur[ing] Carleton: Engaging learners through screencasting

By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The educational psychologist, John Dewey, once said, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” In my last blog post, I wrote about my own failures at teaching today when using yesterday’s model, the lecture, and noted a few strategies... More

Monday, May 2, 2016

2015-2016 Provost Scholar Awards

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), through the Discovery Centre for Undergraduate Research and Engagement honours exemplary undergraduate students with the Provost Scholars Award each spring.  The students are nominated by their faculties for excellence in one of the four pillars of the Discovery Centre: undergraduate... More

Monday, May 2, 2016

Putting ease back into the equation: cuPortfolio in engineering and physics courses

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer For numbers and equation-based courses such as engineering, physics or math, handing in printed sheets of paper with page after page of computer-drawn graphs or equations is not always the best use of time and resources. For the ease of both student and instructors, many have turned towards... More

Friday, April 29, 2016

Discover how to foster active engagement at our upcoming teaching and learning symposium

Date: Tuesday, May 10 Time: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms Register here Discover how to create educational experiences that not only promote, but foster active engagement at our upcoming teaching and learning symposium. Carleton instructors, students and staff will share their teaching and learning... More

Friday, April 29, 2016

Discover how to foster active engagement at our upcoming teaching and learning symposium

Date: Tuesday, May 10 Time: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms Register here Discover how to create educational experiences that not only promote, but foster active engagement at our upcoming teaching and learning symposium. Carleton instructors, students and staff will share their teaching and learning... More

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Active Learning Classrooms coming to Carleton

By Emma Brown, TLS staff writer It was 8:35 a.m. Anne Bowker’s first-year psychology seminar had just begun. The first several minutes were spent reorganizing students into groups for discussion. Chairs were awkwardly formed around unmoveable desks until something like “groups” emerged. It was not ideal. That’s one of the reasons why... More

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Blog: Beginning exams

By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics About midway through the first time I taught MATH 3801, Linear Programming, I found out that many of my students did not remember what the rank of a matrix was. The rank of a matrix is a basic concept covered in first-year linear algebra.... More

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Blog: Beginning exams

By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics About midway through the first time I taught MATH 3801, Linear Programming, I found out that many of my students did not remember what the rank of a matrix was. The rank of a matrix is a basic concept covered in first-year linear algebra.... More

Monday, April 25, 2016

PASS workshops helping students succeed

By Alison Sandstrom, TLS staff writer Students struggle more with some courses than others. First year classes in particular can be difficult as students adjust to the academic expectations of university. Professor Bob Burke teaches General Chemistry, a challenging course for many first-year students. “Some high school chemistry is roughly... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Blog: Beyond PowerPoint: EdTech and the active learning experience

By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The EDC’s Teaching and Learning Symposium is fast upon us, and this year’s theme—Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond—has me reflecting on how my own teaching practice has evolved over the years, from passive to interactive, and how it continues to... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

An introduction to CTS’ new acting supervisor

By Nina Karhu, acting supervisor, Classroom Technology Support Starting in January 2016 I moved into an office (with windows!) in Loeb D283 as acting supervisor of Classroom Technology Support, filling in for Troy Bernard who is taking paternity leave. Coincidentally, my previous office (located underneath the Kailash Mital Theatre – no windows)... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Take a look back at the academic year with TLS

It’s time to take a look back at the academic year with Teaching and Learning Services. Check out the latest issue of Reflections, an annual magazine that features TLS’ best stories, tips and blogs of the year. Inside, you’ll find stories on everything from chalkboard teaching to dealing with controversial topics in the classroom, as... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Carleton’s Outstanding TA Award recipients honoured at luncheon

Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte (President and Vice-Chancellor), Dr. Peter Ricketts (Provost and Vice-President [Academic]), Dr. Joy Mighty (Associate Vice-President [Teaching and Learning]), and other members of Teaching and Learning Services celebrated the 2015-16 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recipients at a private luncheon at Baker’s... More

Monday, April 18, 2016

Carleton prof tracking music on the American campaign trail

By Alison Sandstrom, TLS staff writer For years James Deaville has studied how music is used in advertising. Now the Carleton music professor is applying his analysis to whole new kind of marketing: political campaigning. “Music can be manipulative and you might not even notice it’s there. It’s the ultimate hidden persuader,” he says.... More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Celebrating Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate research is alive and well at Carleton and growing steadily each year! The Discovery Centre was pleased to host an undergraduate conference on March 30th to celebrate the work completed by participants of the Centre's I-CUREUS and Badar Travel Award programs. The students concise presentations were well received, by an audience of... More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Teaching and Learning Symposium – Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond

When: May 10, 2016 Time: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms Active learning is founded on the idea that students must actively engage with new content and skills in order to internalize and make sense of it in a meaningful and lasting way. The question with which instructors,... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Let’s be active! New classrooms on campus

Teaching and Learning Services is excited to announce the development of two new Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs), both housed in the Tory Building. While these rooms are still under construction, the ALCs should be ready for visitors later this month and are expected to be available for classes in the Fall 2016 term. If you... More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Blog: The DIY syllabus

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Part of the job of higher education is getting students to shift from being consumers of knowledge to producers of it. The syllabus, or course outline, is one way in which we provide students with information and perspectives we expect them to master. But what... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Carleton educators named finalists for 2016 Capital Educators’ Awards

Congratulations to the six Carleton educators who have been named finalists for the 2016 Capital Educators’ Awards. Laura Banducci (College of the Humanities - Greek and Roman Studies), Jeff Dawson (Department of Biology), Christopher Dieni (Institute of Biochemistry), Martin Geiger (Department of Political Science), Kelly Lauzon (Institute of... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Fostering student success: An introduction to motivational interviewing

The Centre for Initiatives in Education invites you to join Professor Jonathan Lee from the University of Cincinnati to learn about the role that Motivational Interviewing (MI) can play within higher education. Advisors, academic coaches, peer educators and faculty can use MI to help uncover the values and motivations of students as they work... More

Monday, April 11, 2016

Easing into the profession: Benefits and challenges of studio-based learning

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS Staff Writer There’s a joke at most schools that have an exceptional architecture program, such as Carleton: if you see a student walking around looking tired and up at all hours of the night, they’re most likely an architecture student. While that stereotype doesn’t always apply, for many architecture students... More

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Blog: The rise of AI in education

By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics AlphaGo’s recent victory over 18-time world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go in the Google DeepMind Challenge Match stunned the world. AlphaGo is a Go-playing computer program developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind. Its victory was a big deal because many people... More

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The nomination deadline for Carleton University Teaching Awards is almost here

The nomination deadline for the 2016 Carleton University Teaching Awards is only a few weeks away. If you are interested in pursuing an award or know an outstanding educator who deserves recognition, then be sure to get your nomination or application in before the deadline on April 17. There are four awards currently open... More

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