University of Toronto

Thank you to everyone who attended. We will be posting videos and slides soon.

"The Shifting Nature of Teaching & Learning in Today's University"
Richard Dominic Wiggers, Keynote Address, presentation slides
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Online Learning - Beyond Content to "Aha moments" for Both Faculty and Students
Laurie Harrison, Don Boyes, Shafique Virani, Steve Joordens
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Teaching quantitative methods using interactive software games and demonstration
Timothy Chan, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Reference List
Ivan Silver, Department of Psychiatry
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Education for a Sustainable Future (Poster Session)
John W. Johnston, University of Toronto, Mike E. Johnston, United College of South East Asia
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Supporting instructors in learning to teach online through professional partnerships (Poster Session)
Kim MacKinnon, PhD, Lisa Dack, PhD
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Online Preparatory Basic Life Sciences Course (Poster Session)
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
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The VITAL Project - Virtual Interactive Teaching and Learning
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
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In recent years, many Canadian and US institutions have emphasized curricular and co-curricular initiatives that aim to enhance student learning and overall engagement while meeting individual, institutional and societal goals for higher education. 

The aim of this year’s Teaching and Learning Symposium is to explore how we reconcile and realize these goals within our context.

In particular, as University of Toronto instructors and administrators, what are our goals for higher education?  What are our students seeking from their educational experiences? What do the broader community and society expect from university graduates and higher education?  How do our educational priorities, pedagogical approaches, institutional initiatives, and policies reflect the range of goals for higher learning? Through concurrent sessions, posters, roundtable discussions and a keynote address we will explore these questions and issues.
 
This tri-campus event is intended to stimulate discussion and the sharing of practical, successful experiences around teaching and learning, aiming to enhance communications and build internal networks. It is a cross-divisional forum that allows faculty and staff to explore and share new instructional methods, to celebrate our commitment to teaching and learning, and to hear from this year’s recipients of the President’s Teaching Award.  The symposium will include a featured speaker, a special session featuring the 2012 President’s Teaching Award recipients, concurrent sessions, roundtable discussions, and poster and resource sharing sessions.


  Richard Wiggers, Executive Director – Research & Programs    

Richard Wiggers holds a B.A. (Carleton), a Master’s (Ottawa), and a Ph.D. (Georgetown), where he also held a SSHRC doctoral fellowship.  He has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen publications, and has presented more than a hundred papers at academic conferences across North America.  He also continues to teach a variety of postsecondary courses.  In addition to past work with the federal government, he has worked for two education organizations in the private sector.  Before arriving at HEQCO, he was with the Post-Secondary Affairs Branch in New Brunswick, and the Manager of Innovative Learning and Professional Development with the Department of Education.

Richard is responsible for managing more than 60 research projects dealing with Student Services, Teaching and Learning and Learning Outcomes, and oversees all research projects at HEQCO.  He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Apprenticeship Journal, and is leading a major research project on Work Integrated Learning that involves 14 Ontario colleges and universities.



Questions about the Symposium can be directed to: Thuy Huynh, Programs Coordinator, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation at thuy.huynh@utoronto.ca or 416-946-3325.


The recording of this year's Symposium and the gift of a Nexus 7 tablet computer has been generously donated by Mr. Bernard Shuster of the Shuster Group (Montreal). Mr. Shuster, who has previous affiliations with the Université de Montréal, Sir George Williams University, McGill University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is passionate about university-based life long learning. Most recently he has become particularly interested in how the University of Toronto is leveraging new technologies for advancing teaching and learning, and is pleased to make this donation in support of the annual CTSI Teaching & Learning Symposium.


From the 2011 Teaching and Learning Symposium, words of advice from President's Teaching Award winners:

ON FOSTERING GENUINE CURIOSITY