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Session Title: if inquiry’s so good, how come it’s so hard to make it work? Strategies for introducing inquiry into the curriculum [paper abstract] Presenters: Jim Rice, Dale Roy, Wayne Warry. Mcmaster University. Inquiry is one of those pedagogies that’s really hard to get. Inquiry is a big deal at McMaster (where I work) yet [...]
Presenter: Corey Goldman, University of Toronto [paper abstract] Is anyone doing research into online learning communities and online social networks? There’s so much potential there! This occured to me as I listened to Corey talk about BIOME, the online portal for Life Sciences students that he set up at the University of Toronto. The project [...]
Session Title: Going beyond the 50-minute one shot library class: integrating the communities of classroom instructors and librarians as a means of improving student research knowledge and skills [paper abstract] Presenters: Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, Kelly Anne Maddox, Ginny Ratsoy. Thompson Rivers University. I got to this session a few minutes late so I missed the introductory [...]
Session Title: Implementing large-scale blogging systems at universities: facilitating collaborative writing scholarly learning communities Presenters: Rochelle Mazar, University of Toronto at Mississauga & Jason Nolan, Ryerson University [paper abstract] Another session with scattered notes, but mostly because I was just sucked right into the energy Rochelle & Jason generated for the topic! They did a [...]
Presented by Ronald Smith, Professor Emeritus, Concordia University [paper abstract] My notes here are a bit scattered. The main takeaway for me was the discussion around the importance of valuing teaching in an institution (whether that is with monetary rewards or not; although, from the discussion, it seemed clear that without the monetary reward, teaching [...]
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