Collaborate
An unConference model
By Nicole Sandblom, Senior Instructor, Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences Program
community
Collaborate
The results are in! Community Café Graphic Recordings
The Taylor Institute hosted two Community Cafés in April and May — students and instructors — to gather insights, experiences and opinions about teaching and learning at the University of Calgary. The results of the […]
Collaborate
Becoming better researchers by building learning communities
By Derrick E. Rancourt The Taylor Institute Teaching Scholars recently established a community of practice approach to help learn about each other’s teaching research. Although it is early still, I can see how this approach […]
community
Learning spaces, connection and community
By Natasha Kenny and Nancy Chick, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning In December, we attended a celebratory lunch and debrief with instructors who taught in the learning studios in the Taylor Institute for Teaching […]
Assessment
Anything made possible
“Yes. Anything.”
I met this “anything” suggestion with dumbfounded silence.
This is a snippet of a conversation that I had that forever changed the way that I approach teaching and learning.
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community
On-line, Open Access Publication Launched: Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
By Cheryl Jeffs and Brit Paris, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning December 22, 2016 A virtual launch of Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching (PPLT): Proceedings from the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary […]
community
The #EDUC201 Digital Poster Fair: Bridging the gap between theory and practice
One of the great challenges we have in teacher education concerns the need to ensure that our teaching reflects the approaches to education we encourage our students to enact in their practice.
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Active learning
The Teaching Unconference: Fostering a community of practice for postsecondary educators
For a variety of reasons, sometimes it seems difficult to open up deeper dialogue about pedagogy between post-secondary instructors.
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