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What's Happening
  • Distinguished Faculty Award Nominations
  • Script to Screen: DIY Video Workshop Intensive
  • Kaltura Pilot Spring/Summer 2023
  • Record Teaching Materials Using a Lightboard
  • Airmeet Pilot
Professional Development Opportunities
  • Open Education Resources in Undergraduate Learning
  • Reviving Curiousity: A Higher Ed. Podcast Lunch & Learn
  • Going Deep Book Spring: Ungrading as Alternative Assessment
  • Reboot Your Course: Small Teaching Changes that Make Big Impacts
  • We're here to help: Book a consultation
Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL
  • Brave Conversations in SoTL
  • Imagining SoTL: Call for Papers
  • Getting Started with SoTL
  • Mokakiiks SoTL Grant Workshop
  • From Idea to Inquiry: Refining SoTL Research Questions
ADC Bookshelf
  • New arrivals
  • View entire collection
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WHAT'S HAPPENING

Distinguished Faculty Award Nominations

Distinguished Faculty Awards celebrate outstanding performance by full-time and contract faculty. These prestigious awards constitute a public reward, recognition and celebration of outstanding work, and are a way of thanking individual faculty members for exemplary contributions to teaching, research and service. 

To nominate a contract or full-time credit faculty member, please complete this nomination form by Monday, April 3 at 4:00 pm.

More information & award criteria Nominate now
Learn about Script to Screen

Script to Screen: DIY Video for the Classroom

Workshop Intensive

In this five-day, hands-on workshop series, you will be guided through the creation of a two- to three-minute video that can be used in your teaching. During the week you will:

  • Discuss ways in which self-made educational videos can be used in undergraduate courses.
  • Explore the resources and supports available in the ADC, including the media production spaces and learning technologies.
  • Plan and script your vision for the video.
  • Record media using easy-to-learn tools such as the Lightboard Studio
  • Put it all together using robust, easy-to-use editing software.

Facilitators: Bree Smith, Christina Devetzis, John Cheeseman, Luciano Dos Santos, Pattie Mascaro
Dates: Monday, May 15 to Friday, May 19*
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm (includes a break for lunch)

*Attendance during all 5 days is encouraged, especially during morning sessions. View the schedule for the week here.
Register now. Space is limited.

Kaltura Pilot Spring/Summer 2023


Virtual Classroom

Would you like to explore a modern virtual classroom platform? We are piloting Kaltura’s virtual classroom within MRU’s D2L LMS. Kaltura offers a robust virtual classroom which allows for persistent content. You can curate information and resources within the virtual classroom and they will remain in the virtual space for all future sessions. To learn more about Kaltura’s virtual classroom go to corp.kaltura.com.

Educational Videos

Do you use video in your courses? We are piloting Kaltura’s video platform within MRU’s D2L LMS. Kaltura offers a variety of tools to use video within the LMS, which includes video assignments, interactive video mapping, video quizzes, and a well-designed virtual classroom.

If you’re interested in participating in the pilot, please contact John Cheeseman at jcheeseman@mtroyal.ca by April 21.

Orientation training will occur from April 26 to 28.

Record Teaching Materials Using a Lightboard

We are excited about the launch of our new lightboard space. Record videos that engage your students by writing notes or diagrams while still facing your audience. This space is great for creating asynchronous learning materials for both in-person and remote teaching.

The lightboard room is located in the ADC Sandbox (EL2274). To learn more, or book a tour of the space contact Bree Smith at bssmith@mtroyal.ca.

Will you be hosting an online event during Winter/Spring 2023?

The Academic Development Centre is launching a pilot for the Airmeet virtual events platform. If you are planning an online event, please consider joining our pilot. Airmeet is a robust online events platform that offers a one-stop solution for your online event. To learn more about Airmeet go to airmeet.com. To learn more about the pilot contact John Cheeseman at jcheeseman@mtroyal.ca.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Discover in-person and online offerings to help build your knowledge and skills in a variety of areas.

View the full schedule of professional development opportunities by going to our upcoming workshops page. (See also: calendar view). 

Always know what's upcoming by adding the ADC Events and Workshops calendar to your own calendar.

Key for mode of delivery:

Online In-person

 New Offering

Open Educational Resources in Undergraduate Learning: Using, Finding, and Funding OERs at MRU

Join Erika Smith (ADC) and Erik Christiansen (Library) for a discussion about Open Educational Resources (OER). Erika and Erik will provide a brief overview of OER, discuss the available supports on campus, and discuss the OER Grant Program.

Facilitator: Erika Smith & Erik Christiansen
Date: April 21
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Register now

Reviving Curiousity:
A Higher Education Podcast Lunch & Learn

Facilitator: Erika Smith
Date:  April 28
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Learn more & register

ReBoot Your Course: Small Teaching Changes that Make Big Impacts

Facilitator: Erika Smith
Date: May 15, 17, & 19
Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am

 
Learn more & register

 New Offering

Going Deep Book Sprint: Ungrading as Alternative Assessment

Facilitator: Jennifer Boman
Date:  May 9, 16, 23, & 30
Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Learn more & register

We’re here to help!

To book a one-on-one teaching and learning consultation with a Faculty Development Consultant, email adc@mtroyal.ca or visit the About Us page at mru.ca/adc.

View all PD Opportunities

MOKAKIIKS CENTRE FOR SOTL

Brave Conversations in SoTL | Mar. 30

A collaboration between Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL and the Taylor Institute, U of C

Launched in February 2022, Brave Conversations in SoTL is a collaborative speakers’ series that brings together an international slate of scholars to discuss ideas around critical approaches to themes of epistemic justice, students as knowers, and threshold experiences in higher education. March’s event offers two speakers to discuss and explore teaching and learning research and scholarship. Dr. Hornsby’s presentation is titled In pursuit of socially-just pedagogy: a possibility in partnership? Maisha Islam will share her thoughts about Bravery in the face of adversity? Critical reflections of liberatory-based partnership.

Register now

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Imagining SoTL: Call for Submissions

All participants of the 2022 Banff Symposium for SoTL are invited to submit to one of the next issues of Imagining SoTL: Selections from the Banff Symposium as follows:

Volume 3, Issue 2

Deadline: March 31 April 14, 2023

All participants of the 10th Anniversary 2022 Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), “A Decade of Imagining SoTL: Looking Back, Looking Ahead” are invited to submit a paper (2500 - 6000 words) developed from their conference session for publication in Imagining SoTL: Selections from the Banff Symposium.

View Call for Papers

 New Offering

Getting Started with SoTL

Did my new activities in class work? How can I increase student engagement? What might happen if I offer students choice in their assessments? The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning focuses on turning our teaching curiosities into research projects. This workshop will introduce you to the history and scope of the field and how you can get started, including funding and supports available to help scholars new to SoTL at MRU.

Facilitators: Cherie Woolmer & Michelle Yeo
Date: April 11
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Register now

 New Offering

Mokakiiks SoTL Grant Workshop

Facilitator: Michelle Yeo
Date: April 13
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Learn more & register

 New Offering

From Idea to Inquiry: Refining SoTL Research Questions

Facilitator: Erika Smith
Date: April 18
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Learn more & register

ADC BOOKSHELF

Are you looking for books specific to teaching & learning? Borrow something from the ADC Bookshelf, located in our reception area (EL2172), and get reading!

 New Arrivals

Here are the books coming soon to the bookshelf.

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Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices
edited by John Zilvinskis, Jillian Kinzie, Jerry Daday, Ken O'Donnell and Carleen Vande Zande

Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
by Linda B. Nilson

Learning That Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education
by Caralyn Zehnder

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The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research
edited by Harald A. Mieg, Elizabeth Ambos, Angela Brew, Dominique Galli, and Judith Lehmann

The Impact of a Sense of Belonging in College: Implications for Student Persistence, Retention, and Success
edited by Erin M. Bentrim and Gavin W. Henning

Infusing Critical Thinking Into Your Course: A Concrete, Practical Approach
by Linda B. Nilson

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