Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Blog: Helping new faculty members transition into the academic community

By: Anthony Marini As someone who has spent much of their academic career working with university instructors in promoting teaching excellence, new faculty hires are of a particular interest to me. Part of that interest stems from the fact that new faculty members face significant challenges as they take on their first academic appointments.... More

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Carleton students embrace their inner child

Carleton undergraduate students are getting in touch with their inner child through the Kids in Ottawa Project (KIOP). The aim? To understand community resilience in the face of adversity, specifically the effects of adverse situations on children. Carleton students worked with Professor Stefania Maggi from the Child Studies Program and two areas... More

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Carleton wins top three spots at IDeA competition

A 3-D prosthetic hand, assistive devices for users in rural Uganda and a navigation system took the top three spots at the Innovative Design for Accessibility (IDeA) competition this past May. For further information,... More

Monday, July 8, 2013

Blog: Managing Collaborative Projects

By: Kirk Davies Nowadays, instead of being the wise old sage on the stage, instructors must become a guide on the side and learn to facilitate learning in new and exciting ways. What this means is that instructors must relinquish some of the control in the classroom and work with students instead of simply... More

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Spotlight on Teaching Excellence: Shawna Dolansky

By: Sabrina Doyle Religion has a way of inciting passionate discussion. And year after year, religion professor Shawna Dolansky has seen these passions manifest in her students during class. “I often get students who either take the class because they hate religion and want to prove it wrong, or because they grew up in... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Blog: Collaborative Learning as Deep Learning

By: Samah Sabra Over the last few years collaborative learning became the new “it” in education. There are websites, government documents and conferences dedicated to the topic. Having returned in mid-June from a conference where educational developers, faculty and students shared many of their ideas and research on higher education, I have... More

Friday, June 28, 2013

Blog: Inspiration and Creativity in Education

By: Samah Sabra I was recently in beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where several staff and faculty from Carleton attended the annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference. I co-facilitated a pre-conference workshop and attended many sessions facilitated by faculty, senior administrators, educational developers and... More

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Carleton Invites Innovators to Create a Greener Campus

As part of “A Strategic Plan for Embedding Sustainability into Carleton University Operations,” Carleton has established a $1 million Green Revolving Fund for sustainability-related projects on campus. Members of the Carleton community are encouraged to submit sustainability projects to the Green Revolving Fund Committee which will review... More

Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Food Waste to Fertilizer Story

My name is Andrew Hicks and I am going into my third year of Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University. I was a participant this past year in The Walmart Green Student Challenge with my friend Taylor Schaefer who is going into his third year of Sustainable and Renewable Architectural Engineering. My journey with Taylor... More

Monday, June 17, 2013

EDC Blog: The grey area surrounding student motivation

By: Manuela Popovici The more I’ve been thinking about student motivation, the further I’ve moved away from the motivated/unmotivated dichotomy. I realized that I was holding on to a belief in the “right motivation” and thus the only acceptable motivation, i.e. the desire to learn, because that’s how I always felt about school. I... More

Friday, June 14, 2013

Online learning tools most effective when focused on interaction, HEQCO study finds

Online learning tools, particularly those that focus on interaction with course material and other students, have a positive impact on students’ grades, according to a new study on first-year Carleton University chemistry students by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). Carleton chemistry professor Bob Burk, director of... More

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Students blog on presenting research on the media and HIV/AIDS

Heather McAlister shares her experiences performing undergraduate research in South Africa  with her research partner Khadija Ga'al and sharing their research at NCUR 2012. Hi, my name is Heather McAlister and I am a fourth year student in African Studies and Political Science. I was among the first group of students to participate in... More

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)-the Student Perspective

The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) began in 1987 as an opportunity for undergraduate scholars from a variety of disciplines to present their research. The conference is held annually and it is an excellent opportunity for meeting presenters from a wide array of institutions for higher learning while also honing the skill of... More

Thursday, June 6, 2013

David Schindler speaks on oil sands development

A number of faculty at Carleton University involve the community within teaching in undergraduate areas. The morning event on Community Engagement with the theme Sustaining our environments through campus and community engagement was a celebration of these activities. The event was a chance to bring members of the Carleton community together... More

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Spotlight on Teaching Excellence: Rowan Thomson

By: Sabrina Doyle Rowan Thomson is used to standing out from the crowd. Throughout her post-secondary education, she was one of the few female faces in the male-dominated classrooms of physics and mathematics. These days she’s teaching those same classes and still sees a stark gender imbalance, though now she stands out for a... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

EDC Blog: Issues in Teaching and Learning – The ELI List

By: Patrick Lyons Technology and higher education are popular topics for conversation, research and debate within many post-secondary education institutions. A key challenge when thinking about higher education and technology is keeping an eye on trends, issues and developments within the large higher education community as well as external trends... More

Friday, May 31, 2013

Canadian Association of African Studies comes to Carleton

Carleton University's Institute of African Studies hosted the 43rd  Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference from May 1-3, 2013. Academics from a variety of backgrounds shared their papers on this year’s theme Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power. African Studies encourages inter-disciplinary... More

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Eight Carleton professors celebrated with 2013 teaching awards

Photo by: Chris Roussakis The Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) are pleased to announce eight outstanding educators who have been named the 2013 Carleton University teaching award winners. Hal Goldman (Department of History), Adrian Chan (Department of Systems... More

Friday, May 24, 2013

Carleton Professors Honoured with 2013 Capital Educators’ Awards

Carleton University is proud to announce that Carter Elwood from the Department of History and Craig Bennell from the Department of Psychology, have been awarded 2013 Capital Educators’ Awards. The awards were presented during EduGala 2013 on Thursday, May 23. Elwood and Bennell were among 62 finalists from elementary, secondary and... More

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

EDC Blog: Creativity in the Classroom

Fresh off receiving the 2013 Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning, Carleton history professor Shawn Graham tells us how he manages to keep his teaching creative. By: Shawn Graham I've had some spectacular fails in my teaching practice. When I first started out, I would look around at what other folks were doing... More

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Best history class ever? Award-winning prof hates essays, loves video games

By: Daniel Reid Shawn Graham isn’t your ordinary history professor. Not by a long shot. Essays? He hates them. Video games? Part of his curriculum. “I often joke with my students that I don’t want to read any more essays,” says Graham, who specializes in game-based learning approaches. “I want them making different things.”... More

Monday, May 6, 2013

EDC Blog: Innovation is not about reinventing the wheel…or using new technology

By: Samah Sabra Often, when I speak with contract instructors, instructors and faculty, they express surprise when I tell them they are innovative. With last week’s annual Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference being hosted at Carleton, I had a lot of time to think about how we define innovation in education. CNIE... More

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Congratulations to this year’s Achievement Award Winners

The EDC would like to congratulate the 2012-13 Achievement Awards winners. Each recipient has made a great contribution to the Carleton community. Read all about the award winners and their projects here. There will be a celebration to honour the recipients on Tuesday, May 7 from 3-5 p.m. in Bakers Lounge with President and... More

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

EDC Blog: Change Can be Hard, but Energizing

By: Samah Sabra Before Fall 2012, I knew there were plans to retire WebCT this April. These plans left me with two options for the next two terms: (1) keep going with WebCT until it was no longer an option or (2) start using cuLearn now that it was available to me. The first... More

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Professor Shawn Graham wins Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning

The Office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) would like to congratulate history professor Shawn Graham for being named one of five winners of the 2013 Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning on April 23. The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn,... More

Friday, April 19, 2013

Carleton Recognizes Top Teaching Assistants for 2012-2013

On April 19, 2013, Carleton’s Educational Development Centre recognized the work and accomplishments of teaching assistants with the End of Year Excellence Reception. More than 100 graduate students, staff and faculty members gathered to celebrate the achievements of Carleton’s diverse graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants. The... More

Monday, April 15, 2013

EDC Blog: Next Steps for the LMS

By: Patrick Lyons For the last year, the Educational Development Centre (EDC) and Computing and Communication Services (CCS) have been collaborating to transition the university from WebCT (actually Blackboard Campus Edition 8) to cuLearn (actually Moodle). We are now in the final couple of months of our transition and Carleton’s long history... More

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Six Carleton educators named finalists for Capital Educators’ Awards

Congratulations to the six Carleton educators who have been named finalists for the 2013 Capital Educators’ Awards. Troy Anderson (Sprott School of Business), Craig Bennell (Department of Psychology), Steven Cooke (Department of Biology), Carter Elwood (Department of History), Mariana Esponda (Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism) and... More

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

WebCT Retirement: What you need to know

The EDC and CCS are pleased to report that on May 10, Carleton will retire WebCT and embrace cuLearn as our sole Learning Management System. While WebCT has served Carleton well in the past, the product is at the end of its life cycle and will no longer be updated. After an extensive review... More

Friday, April 5, 2013

WebCT Retirement Date Approaching

The EDC and CCS are pleased to report that on May 10th, Carleton will retire WebCT and embrace cuLearn as our sole Learning Management System. While WebCT has served Carleton well in the past, the product is at the end of its life cycle and will no longer be updated. After an extensive review... More

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Important Co-Curricular Record Update for Faculty and Staff

The Co-Curricular Record (CCR) is a tool used at Carleton to both encourage and recognize students’ extra-curricular involvement. The CCR has recently been subject to updates, and this has slightly altered the way students, staff and faculty can access the system. Please note that moving forward, all faculty and staff are required to access... More

Monday, April 1, 2013

EDC Blog: Unlocking Assessment Value with Mozilla Open Badges

By: Andrew Barrett Assessment of learning is important but it can be hard work for all involved. This post explores the question of how educators and learners can potentially get more bang for the effort they put into assessment through the use of the newly released Mozilla Open Badges infrastructure that is receiving considerable... More

Thursday, March 28, 2013

A Teacher’s Perspective: Using Technology to Offer Online Labs

By: Marc St-Hilaire The School of Information Technology is offering a Bachelor degree in Networking Technology (NET). The NET program focuses on the design, installation, operation and management of future complex information networks. One of the main advantages of this program is that it offers a strong mix of theoretical concepts and practical... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Celebrate Carleton’s outstanding TAs

The EDC has received a record number of nominations for this year’s Outstanding TA Awards, which celebrate the amazing accomplishments of Carleton University’s teaching assistants and their dedication to undergraduate learning. This year, the list of nominees is nearly 1/3 larger than ever before – proof that there are more celebrated... More

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Blog Post: Celebrating Carleton’s Outstanding TAs

The nomination deadline for the Educational Development Centre's (EDC) Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards and many Departmental TA Awards was last Friday, March 8. The awards celebrate the amazing accomplishments of Carleton University's teaching assistants and their dedication to undergraduate learning. Teaching assistants occupy a challenging... More

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