Lunch & Learn Series: MS Teams with Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi
This session will be held on Friday, August 27, 2021 at noon. Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenters this week. MS Teams enables users across the University to connect via instant messaging, video conferencing, online meetings, and simultaneously work on files in real-time together. In this session, Edmund […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Navigating the AV sea with Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, August 20 at noon. Duncan McHugh of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenter this week. For those coming back to campus to teach in-person this September, there are many considerations with regards to the audio-visual technology you’ll use. This lunch-and-learn will help demystify that tech, and inform […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Ensuring exams are effective tools for learning and assessment by Candice Rideout and Gregory Paradis
This session will be held on Friday, August 13, 2021 at noon. Candice Rideout (Associate Prof. of Teaching, LFS) and Gregory Paradis (Assistant Prof., Forest Resources Management, Forestry) will be our guest presenters this week. The recent period of remote teaching has posed many pedagogical challenges, including how (or if) we should administer midterms and […]
Lunch & Learn Series: OnTask – a tool to provide personalized feedback to increase student engagement & motivation with Sandra Brown
This session will be held on Friday, August 6, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown (Asst. Professor of Teaching, LFS) will be our guest presenter for this week. With increasing class size and student diversity, providing personalized feedback to students can be a challenge. Yet we know from nudge theory that if we provide our students […]
Students’ Reflections on Remote Learning
By Adrian Granchelli & Gabriel Smith, The Learning Centre, Faculty of Land and Food Systems METHODS The Learning Centre conducted student focus group sessions in June of 2021. At this point, students have completed an entire year of online and distanced education. Students were contacted through the LFS Student Services Email list and incentivized to […]