Registration Open: 2025 Teaching with AI Conference

Register today for our 2025 Teaching with AI Conference, hosted online from June 09-13, 2025. This cross-institutional event brings together educators, students, researchers, academic staff, and institutional leaders to explore how AI is reshaping teaching and learning in higher education.

This year’s program features 25 highly practical sessions, including hands-on workshops, interdisciplinary panels, practical presentations, and a thought-provoking keynote. With 60 speakers from 16 institutions and organizations, the conference is a collaborative space for sharing insights, building AI literacy, and engaging in critical conversations about pedagogy, principles, and practice.

The future of AI in education isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. It’s about building strong, connected communities across institutions and disciplines, and ensuring inclusive, ethical, and future-ready classrooms. This conference creates vital knowledge pipelines to support cross-sector collaboration, reduce duplication of effort, and empower educators with the tools and perspectives they need in a rapidly evolving educational landscape. Think boldly, question deeply, and act purposefully.

This event was made possible through the collaboration of many dedicated partners: Contact North, Digital Life Institute, FeedbackFruits, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, McMaster University, Ontario Tech University, Queen’s University, Sheridan College, University of Niagara Falls Canada, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and York University.

Registration is $20. Open to everyone – educators, staff, students, and lifelong learners across all institutions and organizations.

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Conference and Register here

Registration Open: Assessment Design Institute - Meaningful AI Integration to Support Learning

Join us for the Assessment Design Institute: Meaningful AI Integration to Support Learning (June 17–18, 2025), directly following our Teaching with AI Conference. This hands-on institute takes place in-person over two half-days, and invites instructors to explore how generative AI can be thoughtfully integrated into course assessments to support deeper learning, foster critical thinking, and build students’ AI literacy.

Day 1 focuses on experimenting with AI tools and critically analyzing a current assessment, with the goal of redesigning that assessment to integrate AI. Participants will work on reimagining the assessment to align with course outcomes, and support student learning, the development of disciplinary knowledge and skills, and AI literacy. We will also examine grading and feedback practices for assessments where students are co-creating with AI.

Day 2 offers opportunities for collaborative peer support to refine your assessment design, and a discussion about strategies to communicate transparently with students about the assessment and the intended use and purpose of AI. You’ll leave with new insights, a network of colleagues interested in exploring AI’s role in assessment, and a draft revised assignment description and grading process.

The Assessment Design Institute is open to any University of Guelph, Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown faculty, instructors, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who are redesigning an assessment.

Registration closes: June 13, 2025. Space is limited.

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Assessment Design Institute and Register here

Registration Open: Becoming a SoTL Scholar Summer Book Club

During Summer 2025, the OTL Book Club will discuss Becoming a SoTL Scholar (Miller-Young & Chick, Eds., 2024). Book club discussions are virtual and open to all University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown faculty, instructional staff, sessionals, postdocs, graduate students, and teaching assistants. During each meeting, book club members will take part in a facilitated discussion of chapters in the book and discuss their thoughts, questions or share experiences.

Register by: June 11, 2025. Space is limited.

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Book Club and Register here

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support with OTL

We are offering two upcoming opportunities for those interested in learning more about SoTL or working on SoTL projects.

For those participating in the McLaughlin Library’s Faculty Writing Retreat in May, join OTL for a discussion on “What is SoTL?” on Wednesday, May 07 from 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM and again from 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM, to explore foundational concepts and practical steps to engage in SoTL. We'll discuss how SoTL differs from scholarly teaching, its impact on teaching and learning, and how to get started with your own SoTL project. Retreat registration and attendance required.

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Faculty Writing Retreat and Register here

One-on-One Consultations: For anyone currently working on SoTL projects, OTL is offering one-on-one consultations during the week of May 05 – 09, 2025, in-person or virtual. Consultations offer tailored support for your SoTL projects, including refining research questions, considering ethical aspects, identifying appropriate methodologies, strategizing dissemination and publication opportunities, and finding and connecting with SoTL colleagues, collaborators and SoTL networks.

Registration Reminder: 36th Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference

The 36th Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference is just one month away! Registration closes on Monday, May 05, 2025.

The conference begins on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, as we connect in the University Centre for in-person interactive workshops, presentations, and posters. On Thursday, May 15, 2025, join us virtually for our keynote address from Dr. Jessie Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning & Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric at Elon University, along with interactive online sessions and presentations.

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Conference and Register here

Application Reminder:
Course Design Institute (CDI)

The application due date for the Course Design Institute (CDI) has been extended to Friday, April 25, 2025 by 5:00 PM.

The Course Design Institute (CDI) is a transformative program designed to support instructors with designing or redesigning a course in a supportive, engaging, and collaborative environment. The CDI will be held in-person on May 26 - 29, 2025, from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. All University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown instructors, staff, postdocs, and graduate students seeking to design a new course or revise an existing course are eligible. Space is limited to approximately 25 participants.

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about CDI and Apply here

For more teaching resources or to chat with us,
visit our website at https://otl.uoguelph.ca/ or contact us at otl@uoguelph.ca.