July 2024
- Registration now Open: College-Specific Workshops on Scaling Courses for Increasing Student Enrollment
- Registration now Open: Leveraging GenAI for Teaching Summer 2024 Workshops
- Applications are Open for the Early Career Faculty Community of Practice
- Critical Reflection Workbook
- Congratulations, Mavis Morton: 2024 OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award Winner
- OTL has joined LinkedIn
Registration is now open for our July and August workshops on scaling courses and assessments for increasing student enrollment. We have collaborated with each College to create tailored workshops and resources focused on rethinking courses and assessments for larger class sizes.
Interested in learning about tools and technologies that can support communication, grading, and feedback in larger classes? Register for OpenEd's August 2024 workshops focused on leveraging educational technologies, including new CourseLink tools for grading and communication, PEAR for peer review, and Gradescope for both exams and written assessments.
In response to feedback from our June Teaching with AI Series, we are facilitating four workshops in August on teaching with Generative AI:
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Exploring Common GenAI Tools
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AI Playground: Using GenAI for Course Design and Course Materials
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Developing and Communicating your Course and Assessment Policies for GenAI Use
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Rethinking Assessments for GenAI
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Empowering Instructors and Students with AI: Practical Strategies for Online Course Assessments
We are excited to announce the inaugural Early Career Faculty (ECF) Community of Practice (CoP), a transformative program co-sponsored by the Office of Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Associate Vice-President Academic.
About the Program: The ECF CoP is designed to support early career faculty in their professional development as educators and leaders. Through this cross-disciplinary, relationship-rich experience, participants will engage in continuous learning, reflective teaching practices, and build connections across the university community.
Program Structure: The CoP will meet monthly from September 2024 to June 2025. Each session, facilitated by Educational Developers and invited guests, will provide a space for discussing various topics such as reflective practice, teaching with technology, course design, inclusive pedagogies, and more.
Eligibility: We invite full-time, tenure-track faculty members, veterinarians, and teaching librarians at the University of Guelph, Guelph-Humber, or Ridgetown to apply. Applicants should be teaching at least one course during the program and demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and innovative teaching practices.
For details and how to apply please visit our ECF CoP webpage. Space is limited to 15-20 participants.
For questions or further information, contact Dr. Christie Stewart at cstew@uoguelph.ca.
Due date: August 16, 2024
Our new Critical Reflection Workbook, developed by Dr. Megan De Roover, is a dynamic and interactive online tool, designed to help faculty engage students in high-quality critical reflection to facilitate learning, skills development and growth.
Do you currently engage students in critical reflection? Are you considering integrating critical reflection into a course or student mentoring? You can share this workbook with your students to independently guide them through the critical reflection process.
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Join us in celebrating Dr. Mavis Morton as one of this year’s three Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award recipients!
“Mavis is a dedicated, inspiring, innovative, scholarly, and impactful educator who champions teaching and learning across the University of Guelph. Her commitment to continuous improvement of her own teaching and learning practice, leadership in curriculum development, authentic community partnerships, and engagement in SoTL, demonstrate her thoughtful innovation and impact on teaching excellence.” notes Dr. Sara Fulmer, Acting Director of OTL. Sara and Dr. Byron Sheldrick (AVPA) co-nominated Mavis for this award.
As a part of our mission to champion and advocate for teaching and learning, the Office of Teaching and Learning offers guidance and support for University of Guelph faculty applying for external teaching awards.
“I want to extend my appreciation to the Office of Teaching and Learning team and particularly Brandon Sabourin, Janet Wolstenholme, and Sara Fulmer for their expertise in reviewing and enhancing my dossier for this application and for writing the nominator’s letter for this award. This would not have happened without their time, energy, and assistance” shares Morton.
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