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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Blog: Spotlight on innovation

By: Kirk Davies, EDC Educational Technology Development Coordinator From June 3-5, Algonquin College hosted the Advancing Learning 2015 Spotlight on Innovation conference. This conference aims to share the experiences of educators across the province in the areas of educational technology, the Internet and engagement. The first keynote speaker,... More

Monday, October 13, 2014

Blog: Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away Part 2

By Nestor B. Querido, CUOL Supervisor This is the second in a three-part blog series about technology. Read part 1 here. With all its appeal and wizardry, there is a flip side to technology – it can spawn unwanted consequences. We don’t fully understand what limitations technology might bring, but we imagine that it... More

Monday, March 31, 2014

Blog: Ready to rock teaching? EMCP Style

By: Nestor B. Querido, Supervisor, CUOL It’s Carleton University—EMCP style! Our Enrichment Mini-Courses Program, which began in 1981, is all about teaching high school students on campus. The one-week mini courses offer future undergraduates a valuable first glimpse into Carleton’s academic programs. Although it requires a lot of... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Blog: Reflection on Richard Nimijean’s roundtable on the flipped classroom

By: Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz, EDC Instructional Designer What Prof. Nimijean presented at the last EDC roundtable is a very interesting example of applying two different instructional approaches and getting a possible "Goldilocks dilemma” where things might end up "just right" using a third, mixed approach. In the first version of the course,... More

Friday, February 7, 2014

Learner-Centred Paradigm and Plagiarism

By: Hoda Khalil  “Scientific observation has established that education is not what the teacher gives,” Maria Montessori argued almost 70 years ago; “education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences in the environment” (Montessori, 1946, p.2).... More

Monday, December 23, 2013

Blog: A Song of Ice and Exams (with apologies to G.R.R. Martin)

By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning In what has been a particularly chilly and snowy December, it’s the end of the term at Carleton and that means its crunch time for students, instructors, teaching assistants and staff at the university. Students are studying, preparing and writing exams, papers and submitting projects.... More

Monday, December 2, 2013

Blog: Desire2Learn Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning

By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning The deadline for the Desire2Learn Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning has been announced as Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. This international award celebrates and recognizes innovation in post-secondary teaching and learning. About to enter into its third year, Carleton is proud to count professor... More

Monday, October 28, 2013

Blog: Informal Assessment and Asking Questions in Class

By: Jim Davies, Institute of Cognitive Science jim@jimdavies.org  www.jimdavies.org Asking questions as you lecture is an easy and simple way to engage with your students. Typically, the teacher asks a question of the entire class, the students who wish to try to answer the question raise their hands, and the teacher calls on one... More

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Blog: The Assessment Learning Curve

By: Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning As I look out my office window on what is a beautiful day, I notice the leaves changing colour and formation after formation of Canada geese flying by, hustling off to fields of the Experimental Farm or the Ottawa River to rest and feed. It’s then I... More

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Blog: Live Online Proctoring (LOP): To LOP or not to LOP

By: Nestor B. Querido, Supervisor, CUOL The advent of online learning in higher education is a key part of the 21st century learning experience. It is a period of change for many academic institutions, since access to education is now more competitive, open and global. The rise of MOOCs and the appeal of online... More

Monday, September 16, 2013

Blog: Everything that’s old is new again!

By: John Strickland, Assistant Director, IMS One of the best things about working in IMS is September. It is great to see new and returning students coming back to campus, to catch up with colleagues and hear about their summer experiences. As I write this, there is a definite chill in the air, and... More

Monday, September 9, 2013

Blog: New Beginnings

By: Samah Sabra In September of my third year as an undergraduate student, I stood outside my department chatting with other returning students and a professor we all greatly respected and admired. As we spoke, he said: “You know, people often speak of autumn as a time of death – it’s when the leaves... More

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