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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 I’m certain [...]
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 sounds [...]
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 remarks. I [...]
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 great tag-team [...]
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 would [...]
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