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Artificial Intelligence Workshops and Events

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting the way we teach, learn, research, and work. This series of workshops and events are designed to help faculty, staff, and students develop AI awareness and literacy.

Authentic Assessment

This course explores the principles and practice of authentic assessment of student learning. Authentic assessment is a type of assessment which assesses what students know, value, and can do in a way that is well-integrated into the entire learning environment of a course and considers the contexts in which learning might be used once students leave the university. Students will learn how to create assessments that are aligned with intended learning outcomes, and will be able to design reliable, valid, and meaningful assessment measures that motivate students and help them learn.

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.

Early Career Faculty Workshop Series

The Early Career Faculty Workshop Series features sessions offered throughout the year, both on campus and online, and hosted by facilitators from across campus. Workshops are focused on issues, opportunities, and challenges related to early career faculty members at the University, and can be taken as stand-alone sessions, or as a series. Mid and late career faculty members are also encouraged to participate.

Indigenizing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This graduate-level credit course employs a two-eyed seeing approach to Indigenizing teaching and learning in higher education. Through reflection, story-telling, and dialogue, students will explore critical questions of Indigenization, what it means in the context of teaching and learning, and why it is important. In-class activities will model Indigenous pedagogies and take a relational and collaborative approach to fostering allyship, avoiding appropriation, and identifying various strategies to balance Indigenous approaches with Western conventions. Students will have the opportunity to engage in experiential, land-based, and relational learning from an Indigenous perspective and reflect on how they might apply these approaches to their own courses and disciplines

Leading Effective Discussions

This course introduces students to the skills and theories involved in leading and sustaining educationally effective discussions. Students will experience a variety of discussion-based active learning lessons, and will have an opportunity to facilitate a discussion, and receive feedback on their teaching. By the end of this course, students will be in a better position to judge which methods they would like to use in their own classes, and how they can be adapted to suit personal teaching styles and disciplinary needs.

Learning-Centred Teaching in Higher Education

This six-week half-credit course will explore and evaluate the principles and theories of learning-centred teaching in higher education. Participants will use research findings and pedagogical publications to inform their own teaching and learning practice, engaging with a wide range of empirically proven approaches to improve instruction systematically. The course provides a rich opportunity for the examination and application of these approaches in varying post-secondary learning cultures and academic settings.

Lecturing

This course will introduce students to the skills and techniques of effective lecturing. Students will explore storytelling, rhetoric, nonverbal communication, as well as additional theories and approaches to creating and delivering lectures that are clear, well-organized, engaging, and learning-centred; and will be able to adapt these strategies to suit their own personal teaching style and disciplinary needs. Students will also have the opportunity to apply the skills and concepts they are learning by designing and delivering microteaching sessions and providing and receiving constructive feedback from peers.

Resisting Pedagogies

"Resisting Pedagogies" is a community of practice for educators, to explore innovative curriculum across campus.

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.

Teaching with Technology

Workshops introducing technology you can use for tasks such as creating/editing videos, meeting with students virtually, creating interactive content, making your content more accessible, and more.

University Teaching Capstone

This course addresses current and emerging teaching and learning issues, topics, and concerns, and serves as a forum where students can explore and challenge their teaching and learning assumptions. Students will learn about theories and models of reflective practice and communicating their teaching identity. They will also have the opportunity to observe and practice teaching and learning concepts and theories learned in the University Teaching Program. As this course is the final requirement for participants in the UTC, it is expected that students have an understanding of the basic theories and principles of higher education. This course is only open to students enrolled in the University Teaching Program.