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CTSI CONNECT: May 2013 Newsletter
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Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, Volume 4

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, Volume 6, Number 2

Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning ejournal
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CALLS FOR PROPOSALS & CONFERENCES

FACULTY EVENTS at UofT


CALLS FOR PROPOSALS AND CONFERENCES





Join us at the seventh annual University of Windsor-Oakland University Teaching and Learning Conference in Windsor, ON, Canada, May 1 and 2, 2013. Post-secondary teaching and learning is poised for radical transformation, inspired or perhaps impelled by budget challenges, student demands, changes in technology, global competition, "super-courses" such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), distributed learning, mounting costs, poor student retention rates, copyright issues, and the escalating requirements of labour-market needs and government accountability. In such a context, what pedagogies, delivery methods, and curriculum models will give meaning to a world in which information is increasingly abundant and accessible?

For more information, visit http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/oakland/callforproposals.php


 
UBC's Okanagan campus, 9th Annual Learning Conference theme, Enhancing Student Learning invites educators to share best practices and disseminate their research in sessions that will explore student learning, using inquiry in the undergraduate classroom, flexible learning environments and optimum first year experiences.
 
Educators are invited to share their expertise and experiences in advancing student learning through evidence-based practice. The conference intends to explore questions such as how can research inform my teaching and hence enhance the student learning experience; how do students learn best; what does the research say about approaches to teaching and learning that are most effective? How can we approach teaching and learning within large classes? How can we integrate undergraduate research into our teaching? What best practices retain first year students? What is being done in classrooms to address sustainability? 21st century skill development?
 
All interested individuals or groups are invited to submit proposals for 50 minute sessions. Each session is expected to have an interactive component. Formats may include discussions, roundtables, and presentations.

Cost to faculty and registrants from external institutions is $100.

Register online at http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ctl/conference/register





Teaching Graduate Students to Teach is a two-day conference to promote best practices and scholarship among people who strive to do just that: cultivate the teaching abilities of graduate students across Canada. If you develop or deliver such programming, whether within a specific department or at a university-wide centre for teaching, then this conference is for you! Exchange ideas, inspiration, and scholarship with fellow educational developers, faculty, and graduate students at this focused and intimate conference so we can enhance the quality and quantity of graduate student training in teaching in Canada.

www.sfu.ca/gradteach

 

Collaborating for Learning focuses on the many ways faculty, students and disciplines collaborate to produce the meaningful learning we strive to foster in our students. The conference provides an opportunity for learning together in ways that allow us to enhance our practice, grow our research on how students learn, and build our community. Some of the themes include collaboration inside the classroom, outside the classroom, collaboration among the disciplines and collaboration in inquiry.
 
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gary Poole,  Associate Director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Senior Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship at the University of British Columbia.
 
Questions:  Please go to the conference website http://tlc.ucalgary.ca/cflearn/ or email cflearn@ucalgary.ca.
 


Tell it on the Mountain: Teaching, Engaging, Learning and Leading
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Mountain, BC
June 6-7, 2013

http://etug.ca/2013/02/21/spring-workshop-2013-call-for-proposals-open/




Raleigh, North Carolina
October 2-5, 2013

In higher education around the world, inquiry into student learning is moving from isolated practice to systematic research, from peripheral projects to institutional integration, from the margins of disciplines and campuses toward a central position in the academy. This conference will focus on these and other transitions in scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

http://issotl13.com/