Technologies for Student Engagement By Melanie Greene At this past weekend’s Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, hosted by the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Mount Royal University, there was a lot of talk about the use of technology for boosting student engagement and promoting active learning pedagogies. Here is a snippet of technological
Professional Development – Technologies adaptation – Technology literacy – Blog By Mauricio Rivera Quijano The Educause Horizon Report 2019 presents a list of Significant Challenges Impeding Technology Adoption in Higher education. In the report we find that we in Canada can relate to almost the same challenges that all US universities and colleges are facing
This club is the opportunity to explore and discuss about the issues regarding Technology innovations and Pedagogy. Participants are invited to proposed articles or topics and become co-facilitators on this new monthly meeting. SciLIFT will propose this article for the first “Technology & Pedagogy Reading Club” to explore the examples proposed by the article
The Science Education & Learning Innovation Team (SciLIFT) is organizing a monthly get together for faculty and instructional staff to discuss articles on effective teaching and learning practices from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Higher Education, and Science literature. Please join us for these discussions! There will be one 1 hour session held each month on
Vision 2030: Redesigning Education for the future, by Stephen Downes. Stephen Downes is a well-known Canadian researcher and is considered one of the most prominent educational gurus in the fields of eLearning, technologies, Design and many more. This is the synopsis for Downes presentation at the Asbar World Forum “Vision 2030” in Saudi Arabia.