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

Friday, February 26, 2016

Thanks for Making Connections with us!

On February 24th the Discovery Centre hosted Carleton's 4th annual Community Engagement event. This year’s theme was Making Connections, which, thanks to all the attendees, was a successful networking event! The morning was broken into three interactive sections, starting with a panel discussion titled “Community Culture Shock” on the... More

Friday, February 26, 2016

Taking teaching evaluations with a grain of salt

While some students may provide informative and positive feedback on our teaching evaluations, it is inevitable that we will receive criticism throughout our teaching career. In the current climate of anonymous, online commenting, we may well be experiencing a change in the way feedback is delivered (and received). Bring your lunch and join us... More

Friday, February 26, 2016

Blog: Peer Teaching as an Innovative Tool to Foster Student Learning and Engagement

By: Amy Silver Despite being a straight A student, my understanding of calculus did not reach a deeper level until I became a peer mentor for first-year science students – despite the fact that calculus was a course I had received an A+ in with relative ease the year before. By explaining the concepts... More

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Blog: Lessons learned from teaching evaluations

By Kim Hellemans, Undergraduate Chair, Department of Neuroscience For the Fall 2014 semester, I received the lowest teaching evaluations in my 10-year career in university teaching. In a way, I expected them. I had come back to work in Fall 2014 after a 10-month maternity leave with my youngest daughter. To say I struggled... More

Monday, February 22, 2016

Rob Smart: Carleton educator on and off the court

By Lindsay Campbell, TLS freelance writer Rob Smart is no new face to Carleton University. As a faculty member for the school of business and a long-time member of the coaching staff for the Ravens men’s basketball team, teaching is second nature. Smart began coaching at Carleton 12 years ago. Three years later, he... More

Friday, February 19, 2016

2016 Discovery Lecture: The New Communication Climate

The Web and social media offer unprecedented connectivity but, without conscious effort, can insulate people from everyone but "friends" and from ideas that might challenge strongly-held beliefs. During the 2016 Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 25, blogger and Pace University communications professor Andrew Revkin will describe extraordinary... More

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Campus Master Plan: Open house presentation and feedback

If you didn’t have an opportunity to attend the Jan. 18 Campus Master Plan Open House, the presentation is available here, along with a brief questionnaire so you can provide input. Give us your feedback! The review of the Campus Master Plan will be completed in June 2016. Once completed, the Board of Governors... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Freedom to Read Week

Carleton University Library is celebrating its 3rd Annual Freedom to Read Week February 21-25 and we’d like you to join us! Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to freedom of expression and intellectual freedom, guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Blog: Rethinking bias in teaching

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science When teaching controversial topics, particularly the kind that are known in everyday discourse to be polarizing, the question of professor “bias” is sometimes raised. Does every professor necessarily have a bias, and if so, is bias something that should be disclosed to... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Blog: Rethinking bias in teaching

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science When teaching controversial topics, particularly the kind that are known in everyday discourse to be polarizing, the question of professor “bias” is sometimes raised. Does every professor necessarily have a bias, and if so, is bias something that should be disclosed to... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Blog: Implementing Critical Pedagogy through Aesthetic Praxis

By: Sasha Hanson Pastran Traditional, explanative teaching models are often criticized for suppressing learners’ natural intellectual curiosity and their potential for co-creating knowledge (Lewis, 2012, p.28). This article will examine the challenges and possibilities of implementing a critical pedagogy that breaks away from the traditional... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

More than a mentor: Preparing students for their thesis defence

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer Preparing and defending a thesis, from the beginning to the end, can be one of the most challenging aspects of a student’s academic career. From the long nights to inevitable snags that come along the way, students often need guidance to see their thesis to the end. That’s... More

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Piloting an interactive panel in the Discovery Centre

In anticipation of the launch of Carleton’s fully equipped active learning classroom in 431 Tory Building later this year, IMS will be piloting an 80-inch interactive flat screen in the Discovery Centre until mid-March. This state of the art screen will allow instructors to use touch screen features to annotate notes, slides, figures and more.... More

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