Upcoming Event Our Next Academic PD Day is happening Fall 2024 Join us in-person to engage and connect with your colleagues on a day of sharing, discovery, and socializing! Event details will be shared via a future issue of the CTL Compass, across our social media channels, ICE, and right on this page of the CTL website. Event details Fall Academic PD Day Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Time: TBD Location: The Centre for Collaborative Education (CFCE) Registration is NOW closed Thank you for your interest. While we are at capacity for our keynote and workshop sessions, non-registered attendees are welcome to join any of the breakout sessions available. See you on April 24! Call for Proposals We want to celebrate and provide a platform for you to share your best practices, successes, and lessons learned over the last semester! This year, we encourage you to submit sessions anchored in the Science of Learning; however, we are also open to accepting sessions that highlight general teaching, learning and assessment practices at DC. Individual and/or joint (interdisciplinary and cross-departmental) session(s) will be considered. When completing your proposal, you will be asked to submit a title, short session description, and names of co-presenters (if applicable). The session description you provide will be used in CTL promotional materials for the event, including CTL Compass and on CTL socials. Deadline for Submission: Friday, October 4, 2024. Be A part of Academic PD Day! Interested? Choose from a standard 45-minute session, a 20-minute mini teach session, or a poster presentation! Alternatively, you can open this form in a new window. Be A part of Academic PD Day! Interested? Choose from a standard 45-minute session, a 20-minute mini teach session, or a poster presentation! Submit a Proposal Keynote Spotlight The CTL is excited to welcome Nidhi Sachdeva, Ph.D to present the keynote and workshop sessions during Spring Academic PD Day! About Dr. Nidhi Sachdeva Nidhi Sachdeva is an evidence-informed learning designer, post-secondary educator, researcher, and an educational technology specialist. She is interested in designing and integrating evidence-informed instructional practices using a wide range of educational technology tools including GenAI. Recently, she has been researching this through the notion of microlearning and cognitive science. Nidhi is the co-author of a newsletter called the Science of Learning, which aims to reduce existing gaps between educational research and instructional practice. She is also the chair for the upcoming ResearchEd Toronto conference titled 'Discovering the Science of Learning'. With almost 20 years of experience developing and facilitating learning content for both face-to-face and online courses within formal higher education, Nidhi is extremely passionate about integrating the Science of Learning in her pedagogical practice. She is currently teaching in the Teacher Education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Nidhi will be facilitating the following sessions during Spring Academic PD Day: Keynote / Beyond the Hype: Tangible Ways to Leverage GenAI for Teaching In the wake of ChatGPT's launch by OpenAI, the conversation around AI in education has reached a fever pitch, with promises of vast transformations in teaching and learning. However, amidst the buzz, educators are left grappling with how to effectively integrate GenAI into their instructional practices. In this session, we'll move beyond the hype to explore tangible ways educators can leverage GenAI to help inform their planning and lesson design. By focusing on evidence-informed methodologies derived from the Science of Learning, the session will describe practical, tangible ways educators can harness GenAI to facilitate effective and sustainable learning outcomes for all students. Workshop / Designing Evidence-Informed MicroLearning for Higher Education When it comes to informal or just-in-time learning, microlearning is ubiquitous. From YouTube videos to TikTok reels to Khan Academy tutorials, microlearning has tremendous appeal. As a result, it continues to be a popular trend and a buzzword in the field of teaching and learning. Unfortunately, the term has been used broadly and inconsistently across the academic literature, causing confusion for both scholars and educators. Yet, there is something valuable about a well-designed microlesson that we need to identify and understand, especially within formal higher education. In this interactive workshop, I will propose a new term called MicroLearning – the capitalized “Learning" emphasizes that the microlesson is designed with certain evidence-based principles in mind. We will explore evidence-informed MicroLearning design principles, learn from various concrete examples and spend time applying these principles to practice. Schedule Last updated: April 16, 2024 at 2:40 p.m. 🌎 Global Classroom 📸 CFCE 119 1️⃣ CFCE 116 2️⃣ CFCE 117 3️⃣ CFCE 118 [ 🌎 Global Classroom ][ 📸 CFCE 119 ] [ 1️⃣ CFCE 116 ][ 2️⃣ CFCE 117 ][ 3️⃣ CFCE 118 ] TIME SESSION 8:30 a.m. Registration & Breakfast 8:45 a.m. 🌎 Welcome & Land Acknowledgement with Dr. Jean Choi & Amanda Maknyik 9 a.m. Keynote Session / 🌎 Beyond the Hype: Tangible Ways to Leverage GenAI for Teaching with Dr. Nidhi Sachdeva 10:30 a.m. 🌎 Break 📸 Headshots with C&M 10:40 a.m. Morning Breakout Sessions 1️⃣ All about the Research Ethics Board (REB)! with Dr. Lynne Kennette [LS] & Laura Benninger [SEIT] Whether you have a primary or secondary research idea (or thinking about incorporating course-based research), the REB process might seem complicated, but it really isn’t! After an overview of the REB process for different application types. We’ll also have plenty of time to share some FAQs and for you to ask your questions about the REB! Participants may bring their research ideas, and/or REB applications in various stages of completion for general feedback (time-permitting) 😊 2️⃣ Reduce Your Workload with AI-Enhanced Materials - Effective, Engaging, Effortless! with Corey Gill [BUS; Generative AI Consultant, CTL] Unlock the Power of AI in Your Classroom: Transform your teaching with cutting-edge AI tools and techniques. Join this workshop to AI-ccelerate your educational content and empower your students' learning experience. Dive into the future of education and level-up your teaching game!" 3️⃣ Harnessing Peer Assessment to Develop Critical Thinking in the Digital Age with Peer-to-Peer Assessment with Vlad Terletsky [Kritik] In this session, we will explore how peer-to-peer assessment offers a dynamic alternative to traditional professor-to-student assessment, fostering the development of higher-order thinking skills and encouraging collaboration while minimizing student use of generative AI. Through a demonstration of Kritik's sophisticated peer assessment platform and in sharing practical examples, participants will discover the many benefits of incorporating peer learning into their teaching practices. Kritik is available to all DC faculty and students and is integrated into DC Connect. 📸 Headshots with C&M 11:30 a.m. 🌎 Lunch & BodySwaps demo 📸 Headshots with C&M 12:40 p.m. Workshop / 🌎 Designing Evidence-Informed MicroLearning for Higher Education with Dr. Nidhi Sachdeva 3️⃣ Empower Learners with BodySwaps Virtual Reality Simulations: Integrating into your curriculum with Erin Banit [CTL] & Tyler Perras [CTL] This session will introduce faculty to the Virtual Reality experience of Bodyswaps. This tool was developed by behavioral scientists and learning designers to transform behavior through applied skills practice and self-reflection. Bodyswaps empowers students with hands-on practice in communication, interviews, presentations, leadership, and teamwork.The immersive simulations offer true-to-life scenarios, allowing learners to step into various roles and perspectives, honing their abilities in practical, real-world contexts. Check out the 25+ simulations and learning experiences: https://bodyswaps.co/library During this session, faculty will have an opportunity to use Bodyswaps with a VR headset. 1:30 p.m. 🌎 Break 📸 Headshots with C&M 1:40 p.m. Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1️⃣ Amplifying Indigenous Voices through Collaborative multi-disiplinary project with Danielle Harder [MAD] & Dr. Kayla Murphy [FPIC] Founders Drive is a unique work-integrated learning project that has provided an opportunity for students from several programs in the Faculty of Media, Art and Design to develop their skills inside a start-up podcast. This season's focus on Indigenous entrepreneurship challenged them to enhance their cultural learning and relationship building skills. Find out how faculty supported and mentored this student-led project to provide a transformational learning experience. 2️⃣ Copyright and Generative AI: Who owns this stuff anyway? with Catie Sahadath [Library] Have you ever wondered who owns the intellectual property rights for the outputs of generative AI tools like ChatGPT? This session will explore the Canadian copyright implications of using generative AI to produce new works. Attendees will learn how this applies to the classroom, and how we can ensure that we are mitigating copyright compliance risks when using generative AI in teaching, learning, and research. 3️⃣ Intelligent Agents and Badges: Make them your friend with Dr. Lynne Kennette [LS], Morgan Chapman [LS] & Amanda Cappon [SCS] If you’ve been using the PASS system (developed by CTL), then you’re already familiar with intelligent agents, but you can do so much more with them than these alerts to students. You can send students a personalized email when they first log into your course; or when they haven’t logged in for a while. You can let them know you noticed they did well on a test; or provide them with some ideas on how to do better next time. Automatically send an academic alert to struggling students and loop in their student advisor. These touch-points can be so beneficial to establishing and maintaining relationships and rapport with each individual students. Course awards (badges and certificates) can also help with this: you can tell students ahead of time which ones are available to earn or hide them so that students don’t know which of their actions will release a badge: asking a question in the discussion board, completing an optional/extra credit activity, introducing themselves on the discussion board, earning a certain grade in the course, etc! In this workshop, we’ll show you how we use them and walk you through how to set them up so that you (and your students) can benefit from these engaging tools! 2:30 p.m. 🌎 Giveaways