The Generative AI Works in Progress series is a new offering designed to encourage ongoing, open, institutional-level conversations about generative AI in teaching and learning. Over the Winter 2024 term, the series will offer a range of one-hour presentations targeted towards a broad teaching and learning audience where current questions, ideas, inquiries or works in […]

Facilitators:Christie DeCarolis, Customer Success Manager, HypothesisJustin Fletcher, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Teaching, Learning and TechnologyAdding social annotation to course readings can help students develop essential critical thinking skills. In this interactive and hands-on session, Christie DeCarolis from Hypothesis will discuss how you can implement collaborative annotation with Hypothesis to make student reading visible, active, and social. […]

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor March 1st session: learn more about UDL Guideline #5: Provide Options for Expression and Communication (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/action-expression/expression-communication)The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for minimizing […]

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor March 8th session: learn more about UDL Guideline #9: Provide Options for Self Regulation (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/engagement/self-regulation)The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for minimizing barriers […]

Facilitator: Dr Christopher N Payne, Department of Language Studies, English and Chinese Translation ProgrammeTraditional conceptualisations of learning generally posit a classroom, whether in-person or virtual. This entails a limited mobility; students are either seated in a classroom, or they are seated in front of their computers, tablets, laptops. How do we therefore encourage active, participatory […]

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor March 15th session: learn more about UDL Guideline #3: Provide Options for Comprehension (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/representation/comprehension) The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for minimizing barriers […]

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor March 22nd session: learn more about UDL Guideline #6: Provide Options for Executive Functions (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/action-expression/executive-functions/executive-functions)The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for minimizing barriers […]

This panel of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Directors will provide an opportunity for dialogue around the unique roles these leaders serve in furthering the institution's commitment to dismantling barriers and embracing diversity in the advancement of U of T's academic mission.Participants will learn about the nuances between these roles as they operate within their […]

Facilitators: Maria Assif, Professor, Teaching Stream, English Department, UTSCSafieh Moghaddam, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Language Studies, UTSCThis session reflects on the pedagogy of care in post-pandemic theories and praxes. Students and faculty facilitators will first provide a brief landscape of the most recent scholarship on the pedagogy of care. Facilitators will then share […]

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Facilitators: Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI, Samantha Chang, Faculty Liaison, Anti-Racist Pedagogies, CTSIAt the University of Toronto, a teaching dossier must be submitted as part of the formal review process for tenure and continuing status. Beyond the information included in an academic CV, a teaching dossier describes and documents an instructor’s teaching expertise, […]