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

Monday, April 4, 2016

Bringing a classroom experience online: Spotlight on Anne Trépanier

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer When exploring the possibility of online learning, some people are concerned that the online environment lacks the social interaction and engaging atmosphere of a classroom experience. But professor Anne Trépanier is proving that online courses can be engaging, interactive and hands on. Trépanier began teaching in... More

Friday, April 1, 2016

Upcoming cuLearn gradebook drop-in sessions

Do you need assistance with setting up or using the gradebook in cuLearn? If so, we're here to help! The EDC is holding a series of drop-in sessions throughout the months of April and May to answer questions and support faculty in using the cuLearn gradebook. From simply accessing the gradebook, to importing/exporting grades,... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Announcing the EDC’s 2015-2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Recipients and Honourable Mentions

The EDC is pleased to announce the five outstanding Teaching Assistants (TAs) who have been named recipients of the 2015-2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The awards celebrate the support TAs give to the undergraduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment, and their work in... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Blog: Teaching Narratives of the Sea in the Classroom: Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy and the Shipwreck

By: Michelle K. Barron Preparing lessons on shipwreck excavations and underwater cultural heritage discoveries can be a daunting task, primarily because of the numerous intersections of disciplines. Each area of study—be it maritime archaeology, oceanic anthropology, diasporic and migration literature, international law of the sea, or heritage... More

Monday, March 28, 2016

Pushing the envelope: Controversial issues in class

By Emma Brown, TLS staff writer It was the last day of class. The students had questions. They wanted to know what their animal rights professor, Craig McFarlane, personally thought about the issues he had been presenting to them for the last 12 weeks. Before he answered their questions, he made them guess what... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Blog: Learning to Read Before You Can Discuss: Critical Reading in First-Year and Peer-Led Tutorials

By: Victoria Bisnauth Critical reading and thinking are skills that students applying to university, especially to programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public affairs, are often told they will develop over the course of their post-secondary education and that are easily transferable and highly regarded in the job market. While... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Teaching and learning symposium call for proposals

Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond Date: May 10 Time: 9 am – 3:15 p.m. Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms Student engagement, a key to successful undergraduate education, can be achieved through encouraging active learning, which has long been considered a principle of good practice in undergraduate... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Blog: Who might be at risk in online courses?

By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics It has been asserted (see, for example, Tony Bates’ e-book, Teaching in a digital age) that a properly designed online course covering a topic that can be taught online can work as well as a face-to-face course. Such an assertion is backed by the... More

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Undergraduate Research Conference Schedule

Join us from 2-4pm in the Discovery Centre   Our conference will feature an "IKEA-walk" through our student exhibitors. Follow the tape on the floor to wander through a forest of posters. In parallel, individual students will present their work in a 5-minute presentation in tandem. Listen to their experience and ask them questions about... More

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Supervisor Feedback

Thank you to all who have participated in I-CUREUS over the past year. As a fund matching program, I-CUREUS would not be possible without the supervisors who take student research assistants under their wings. Whether you've supported an I-CUREUS student just once or in consecutive past years please provide us with your feedback. To... More

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Discovery! Day – THANK-YOU

On the afternoon Wednesday, March 16, the Discovery Centre was filled with a wide range of craftspeople, hobbyists, technologists and our very own 3D Print Club.  It was a wonderful mash up of artisan crafts, visual artists, technology.   We have so much to be thankful for, in the way that our community came... More

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Contract Instructor Orientation Spring 2016

The Office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) (OAVPTL) invites all contract instructors to an orientation to the university on Tuesday, April 19 from 5:30-9 p.m. in room 422 Dunton Tower. Whether you are a new contract instructor looking for a first-time orientation or a returning contract instructor looking for a refresher on... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog: Using Google Hangout and Skype to Promote Online Learning

By: Robyn Pepin More and more students are obtaining post-secondary education using different online platforms (Harish, 2013). In addition to Moodle and Big Blue Button platforms already used on some university campuses, learning can also be facilitated by instructors and teaching assistants through platforms such as Google Hangout and Skype.... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Celebrating Carleton’s outstanding TAs

Congratulations to the 195 teaching assistants who were nominated for the EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards and many departmental TA awards. We received more than 400 nominations for almost 200 unique nominees this year, highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Carleton’s TAs. The awards celebrate the teaching assistants’ dedication to... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Are final exams necessary?

By Alison Sandstrom, TLS staff writer For many university students, sleepless nights spent cramming and hand cramps from furious writing are inevitable parts of exam season, and therefore unavoidable parts of university. But some professors have started to drop final exams from their courses entirely in favour of more frequent smaller assignments,... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog: Improving Oral Communication

By: Claire Reynolds Oral communication is an essential part of our daily lives. It is a skill many university programs draw attention to and assess because it is an integral part of the workplace and interview process. For example, George Evans, the former chief financial officer of R&P Coal, asks interviewees about the English... More

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Blog: Engaging Students through Daily Progress Tracking

By: Tamer Beitelmal While it advances quickly, technologies can and should be used by educators to improve the learning process, especially as new generations of students are using internet, social-media, computers, and smartphones in their daily lives. In this article, I explain how the practice of daily progress tracking can be a powerful tool... More

Monday, March 14, 2016

Using imagination to make student work worth something: Spotlight on Jim Davies

By: Emily Cook, TLS staff writer Professor Jim Davies is re-imagining teaching, and it involves not wasting any student work. Davies has been a professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton since 2006. In 2015 he was awarded a Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award for sustained excellence in teaching. He says his... More

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Blog: When course material is life-changing

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Sometimes the course material we assign can have unexpected effects. In my fourth-year seminar on graphic novels and political identity, I have allowed my syllabus to stray from a narrow view of my discipline. So while we study works on such topics as the Holocaust,... More

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Blog: Online Discussion Boards: The Case for Their Integration into Science Courses as a Review Tool

By: Marissa Davies Science courses, especially at the introductory level, cover a wide variety of topics within a term and have students enrolled from different majors. To help students consolidate the information they have learned and guide their studying so they do not feel overwhelmed, classroom-based review sessions before exams are typically... More

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Blog: When course material is life-changing

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Sometimes the course material we assign can have unexpected effects. In my fourth-year seminar on graphic novels and political identity, I have allowed my syllabus to stray from a narrow view of my discipline. So while we study works on such topics as the Holocaust,... More

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Upcoming Climate Commons events

Climate Commons Roundtable: Food Politics Carleton’s Climate Commons Working Group invites you to attend a roundtable on Thursday, March 17 from 3-5 p.m. in room 2017 Dunton Tower. Panelists: Andrew Spring (Wilfrid Laurier University), Leah Temper (Seeds of Survival, USC Canada) and Sonia Wesche (University of Ottawa) Respondents: Peter Andree... More

Monday, March 7, 2016

Helping students deal with academic challenges

By Alison Sandstrom, TLS Staff Writer With a population of more than 28,000 students at Carleton, instructors are bound to come across some who might be struggling with a range of academic challenges. Thankfully, there are a wide variety of services on campus that can help support these students, including the Student Academic Success Centre... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Major I-CUREUS Participant

As an I-CUREUS participant , I provided technical support for existing projects within the Solar Energy Systems Laboratory (SESL) and conducted my own research for an upcoming project on compact thermal energy storage. My project support included assisting my colleagues in the SESL with setting up apparatus used for the experimentation components... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Biomedical & Electrical Engineering Major I-CUREUS Participant

As an I-CUREUS participant my role was in the capacity of research assistant, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Andy Adler from the department of Systems and Computer Engineering. This project was part of an Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) project with the Ottawa Hospital, General Campus. I designed a protocol for collecting real... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Physics and Science Major I-CUREUS Participant

My I-CUREUS project has been a continuation of work I've done over the past two summers in Carleton's ATLAS group. The ATLAS is one of the four large particle detectors in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and was one of the two involved in the observations of the Higgs boson announced in 2012.... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Sustainable & Renewable Energy Engineering Major I-CUREUS Participant

My role as an I-CUREUS participant involved many iterations of the design process, which is essential in engineering. As a student of , I couldn’t imagine a more engaging and applicable opportunity than being involved in solar energy research, which is exactly what my I-CUREUS experience entailed. This program allowed me to work under... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Neurology and Mental Health Major I-CUREUS Participant

As an I-CUREUS student in Dr. Alfonso Abizaid’s lab I had the opportunity to work with a Masters student on a follow-up study to complement a previous study she had worked on. Our project looked at the role of the hunger hormone ghrelin in mediating anxious behaviours in mice using three behavioural paradigms: a... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Profile: Engineering Physics Major I-CUREUS Participant

My role as an ICUREUS participant was to perform statistical analysis and automate instruments. I developed multiple programs in R, MATLAB, and LabVIEW to analyze data that we obtained with an in-house microscope. As a result, a large portion of our data analysis steps have been streamlined. My ICUREUS project directly relates to the... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The nomination deadline for Carleton University Teaching Awards is quickly approaching

Are you interested in pursuing a 2016 Carleton University Teaching Award? Or do you know an outstanding educator who deserves recognition? Get your nomination or application in before the deadline on April 17. There are four awards currently open for nominations: Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award This award recognizes faculty and contract... More

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Blog: The use of simulation in teaching social work practice: A potential answer for the art and science of social work

By Kenta Asakura, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work First and foremost, I’m a social worker. Before my recent appointment as an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work here at Carleton, I spent over a decade providing individual, family and group counselling in various marginalized communities as a clinical social worker. As... More

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Carleton awarded funding to develop 13 new online courses and modules

After submitting 34 proposals to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities' eCampusOntario initiative, Carleton has been awarded funding to complete 10 new online courses and three new modules. As part of the third call for proposals for eCampusOntario (formerly the Ontario Online Initiative), MTCU made $4.5 million available to Ontario... More

Monday, February 29, 2016

Forty years of excellence

Carleton University is built on its reputation for landmark achievements, such as its contribution to the Canada Arm, and for the actual landmarks that frame the campus, such as the canal and the Ottawa River. However, Carleton is also built on its people. It is built on the hard work and long-term dedication of... More

Monday, February 29, 2016

Turning challenges of online teaching into opportunities: Spotlight on Peter Thompson

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer Some might see the challenges of online teaching and shy away from it, but for Associate Professor Peter Thompson, those challenges are opportunities in disguise. “The challenges and opportunities are in some ways the same. I think the big thing is being aware of them and using them... More

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