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Brightspace Faculty Specific Workshops

Below, please sign up for the session associated with your Faculty or Department.
Please note: If you sign up for a session that was intended for a specific Faculty that isn't yours, we will contact you to see about rescheduling in other relevant workshops. Please visit our open workshops to find one just for you!

Brightspace Workshops

The Centre for Teaching and Learning's Brightspace Workshop series provides in-person and on-line synchronous learning opportunities. In-person workshops for faculty/staff are offered in two varieties:

Step-by-Step: relaxed, slower-paced sessions and
Quick Steps: faster, technically driven sessions.

Start your Brightspace training with the Getting Started with Brightspace workshop to provide the basis for the more advanced workshops.

Once you are registered for a workshop, if you find you will not be able to attend, kindly unregister for the workshop so facilitators can plan activities accordingly.

For Faculty/Department-specific workshops, visit https://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/workshops/147/

Course Design

This course introduces participants to the principles and practice of effective course design, including developing effective outcomes, devising methods and strategies to help students master difficult concepts and theories, and aligning assessments. Participants will have the opportunity to design (or redesign!) a course of their choosing, receiving feedback at each step. This course is offered in a 6-week format and a two-week intensive format.

Developing Your Teaching Dossier Series

The "Developing Your Teaching Dossier Series" is a sequence of four 45-minute self-paced modules for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows exploring strategies to reflect on their teaching and develop their teaching dossier. While grad students and post-docs are the primary audience, these modules may be useful for anyone that is new to teaching or to the development of a teaching dossier.

Users can choose to take any one of the modules or can choose to complete all four of the modules in the series. Upon successful completion of each module, users will receive a certificate of completion. Completing the entire sequence of modules can allow you to explore a range of different considerations in your teaching dossier development process, including:

• exploring and reflecting on your teaching experience;
• identifying teaching-related transferable skills;
• effectively defining and narrating your teaching values and practices and their impact on student learning;
• describing components of a teaching dossier and begin writing various sections of your teaching dossier; and
• articulating teaching skills and experiences for academic and non-academic careers.

Access to these modules is provided in Brightspace. Once you’ve registered here, you can self-enrol into these modules by logging into brightspace.uwindsor.ca, clicking the Discover tab at the top of the page, and searching for the relevant modules. You will need to enrol into each one individually.

Indigenous Curriculum & Pedagogy

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This six-week course will define and interrogate the scholarship of teaching and learning, and its value to teaching, learning, and higher education. Participants will explore different types of SoTL projects and research methods, determining approaches that might help them identify and answer questions and areas of interest. At the end of this course, participants will have a SoTL project underway and a plan moving forward.

Teaching Dossier Academy

The University of Windsor is pleased to invite professors of all ranks and years of experience to its Teaching Dossier Academy. This intensive, week-long Academy is designed to provide background information, workshops, peer consultation, and extensive expert individual consultation to support the development of participants’ professional teaching portfolios over a period of five days.

Organizers of the Academy will guide higher education teachers through the process of gathering materials and selecting items to include in their dossiers, as well as articulating teaching methods and philosophies.

The Academy will accommodate early-career faculty seeking to establish their teaching profiles, tenure-track teachers required to prepare or re-write their dossiers for formal evaluation procedures, instructors preparing materials for teaching awards, and teachers at all career stages who wish to enhance their pedagogical practice through reflection and peer dialogue.

We invite you to participate in a stimulating week of professional growth, one which promises to help you to describe, in one succinct and cogent narrative, your aims, activities, and accomplishments as a college or university instructor. If you have any questions or concerns, please email ctl@uwindsor.ca.

Note: Priority will be given to faculty members.

There is no charge for members of the University of Windsor academic community. Enrolment for the Academy is limited.

Please hold the dates of the Academy and we will confirm your place as soon as possible.