Teach Anywhere

Last spring, two groups of faculty at NIC participated in the Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation’s inaugural Team-based Learning (TBL) Course Redesign Institute. The sessions focused on the principles of team-based learning, as well as student learning, engagement, and metacognitive skills more generally. I had a chance to catch …

FREE NIC PD OPPORTUNITY – AVAILABLE IN THE DISCOVER AREA OF BRIGHTSPACE Make getting started in Brightspace easier! The NIC Brightspace Basics asynchronous online course provides a flexible professional learning experience specifically focused on mastering the technical intricacies of online course development within Brightspace. It equips instructors with practical insights …

The NIC Essentials for Teaching and Learning in Post-Secondary Education course is a flexible professional learning experience that all instructors will find valuable and applicable to enhance their teaching practice by gaining new ideas to support quality student learning. The Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) is building a teaching and …

“Time pressure rewards students who think fast and shallow — and punishes those who think slow and deep,” Adam Grant Using timed tests as way to assess learning has been under scrutiny for some time. While summative assessments (tests, exams, mid-terms, quizzes) play a crucial role in gauging students’ understanding …

Want to teach more metacognitively – to help students learn how to learn? Check out the new resource on this site sharing a curated collection of some helpful and practical strategies to help your students learn better. You’ll find a handout summarizing (PDF Version) highlighting the top 10 teaching strategies …

CTLI wants to encourage all faculty to complete the 2023 Faculty Academic Integrity Matters Tutorial. This is an instructor learning resource designed to address the changing landscape of ethical behaviour in post-secondary education including suggestions for using Gen AI. As students increasingly explore and experiment with artificial intelligence and assistive …

Assessment is an essential dimension of our learning experiences. In addition to determining and certifying the degree to which learning outcomes have been met, assessment “directs attention to what is important. It acts as an incentive for study. And it has a powerful effect on what students do and how …

A new section under “Essentials” has been developed sharing some recommended resources (books, podcasts, videos, websites and blogs etc.) for post-secondary educators. Who is doing the recommending? Well, they are Liesel’s recommendations (Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation) based on decades of reading and reviewing books for instructors and …

Instructors require four kinds of knowledge to be an effective educator. College and university instructors most often come to the position without strengths in all four knowledge areas. When instructors are building their professional development plan they should consider a balanced approach of all four components and a variety of …