Upcoming
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Open Education Week 2024
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March 4-8, 2024 - A series of events sharing USask stories and accomplishments in Open Education! Join us to learn about USask's successes, attend a new book launch, learn how to engage and build OER with on campus supports, or making the move to include OEP as part of curriculum renewal. |
Workshops & short courses
Below are topic areas and professional development opportunties for USask instructors, facilliated by the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning. USask graduate students and staff are welcome to attend sessions relevant to their work. Click the session titles for descriptions and registration.
Topic areas (click to jump down)
Session types
WK - Workshop: A single session; active learning discussion
SC - Short Course: Multiple sessions/dates; deeper conversations and subject learning
Assessment Evaluation
- Jan 22, 23: Assessment & AI SC
- Mar 08: Implementing outcomes-based grading WK
- Mar 18: Nurturing student wellbeing through fair and transparent assessments WK
- Mar 19: What's "new" about Canvas New Quizzes and how do I use it? WK
Broadening Perspectives
- Jan 29, Feb 05, 12, 19: Intercultural teaching competencies SC
- Mar 06: Facilitating open and healthy dialogue in online courses WK
Documenting and Growing Teaching Practices
Experiential Learning
- Feb 20: Embedding micro-internships in your course WK
- Feb 21: Case studies WK
- Mar 20: Sustainable Development Goals in the classroom WK
- Apr 05: From field to fjord - Prepare for field trips WK
- Jun 26: Community engaged learning WK
Generative AI and Teaching
NEW Series! Blink of an AI - Join us for this new series of engaging 40-minute workshops to explore the potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in designing courses, assessments, and lesson plans tailored to your classroom needs. By attending these sessions, you’ll be ready to enhance your educational approach and lighten your workload. Stay at the forefront of educational technology and elevate your teaching practices!
As activities and assessments require strong learning goals, we highly recommended participants first take the session “Creating learning outcomes with GenAI”, offered each month.
- Jan 08: Creating learning outcomes with GenAI WK
- Jan 12: Creating lesson plans with GenAI WK
- Jan 26: Creating multiple-choice questions with GenAI WK
- Feb 06: Creating learning outcomes with GenAI WK
- Feb 09: Using GenAI to scaffold/ladder tasks WK
- Feb 23: Creating open-ended questions with GenAI WK
- Mar 04: Creating learning outcomes with GenAI WK
- Mar 08: Creating rubrics with GenAI WK
- Mar 13: Creating multiple-choice questions with GenAI WK
- Mar 19: Creating open-ended questions with GenAI WK
- Mar 22: Using GenAI to (re)design activities for learner centeredness WK
- Apr 05: Creating case studies with GenAI WK
- Apr 09: Creating learning outcomes with GenAI WK
- Apr 19: Creating authentic assessments with GenAI WK
- Apr 23: Creating aligned assessments with GenAI WK
Indigenization
- Jan 15: Inviting Indigenous people into your learning space WK
- Jan 16: Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
- Jan 23: Indigenizing instruction in higher education WK
- Feb 06, 13, 20, 27: Reconciliation through Storytelling SC
- Feb 13: Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
- Feb 27, 29, Mar 05: Indigenization, Decolonization & Reconciliation (IDR) SC
- Mar 12: Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
- Mar 12: Inviting Indigenous people into your learning space WK
- Mar 26: Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
Instruction
- Apr 08-26: Online teaching essentials SC
- May 06-09: Teaching skills short course SC
Planning
- Feb 15: Creating your course syllabus WK
- Feb 26, Mar 04, 11, 18: Designing courses for inclusivity using UDL SC
- Mar 27: Creating your course syllabus WK
- Apr 11: Creating your course syllabus WK
- May 14, 21, 28, Jun 04: Providing choice and voice: to, by, for, with students SC
Indigenization and Indigenous Education Professional Development
Contact GMCTL for more information
The 4 Seasons of Reconciliation: These online modules are a direct response to the Calls to Action by the TRC. This online module teaches learners about the experiences of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada. In collaboration with the Library, the GMCTL will help each person to better understand the reasons for reconciliation and the ways in which Canada should move forward to achieve the calls to action. A great addition to any course, we can help explore ways to connect these materials with your course. Learn more
Land Acknowledgement session: A professional development workshop to personally understand and interpret the Land Acknowledgement in a meaningful and purposeful way. Explore the history, intercultural perspectives and personal reasons for how to make this powerful statement at events, meetings or in the classroom.
Conversations about Indigenization: A series of online modules followed up by synchronous group conversations exploring four key perspectives that support Indigenization: Power & Privilege, Land Agreements, Indigenous Pedagogy, and Place and Culture. This is a cohort process where each member brings their own perspectives to share with others as we learn to better understand how we can improve our support for reconciliation.
Sparkshops
- The intention of Sparkshops is to stimulate exploration and conversations around teaching and learning. These 20-minute sessions are facilitated by GMCTL Educational Developers and can be added to the agenda of department meetings, faculty meetings, or other teaching related gatherings.
Events
Annual and bi-annual events offered by the GMCTL
GMCTL Fortnight - annually, each August The GMCTL Fall Fortnight is two weeks of exciting ideas about teaching, courses, and programs. Fortnight sessions vary in style, length, and scope - there is something for everyone! Schedule will be posted each August on the Fortnight webpage. |
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TA Success Day - biannually, each September & January This event offers short workshops to graduate students in a Teaching Assistant role at USask. These focused sessions support development of specific skills and knowledge relevant to the TA role. This event is part of the TA Success Series. Schedules will be posted in advance on the TA Success Days webpage. |
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Open Education Week - annually, each March Following the internationally recognized OE Week, the Gwenna Moss Centre along with partners across campus share our stories and supports around Open Education, Open pedagogy, and Open Resources. Schedule will be posted on the Open Week webpage. |
Looking for other sessions? Registration for IT Training sessions (Canvas, Panopto, Teams, Zoom, etc.) Training and Development channel in PAWS. |
Certificates and extended courses
- Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) - Those interested in the structure of this competency-based program may book a preliminary consultation with Sara Dzaman. Participants will be introduced to a variety of teaching strategies, planning approaches, assessment ideas, and reflective practice techniques.
- Transforming Teaching - This course is offered during the fall term and is an opportunity for faculty and instructors on campus to connect and explore the foundational aspects of teaching at the university level. Transforming Teaching is aimed to support term or tenure-track faculty, sessional lecturers, and post-doctoral fellows in their early years of teaching at USask.
Grad students and postdocs
Most courses and workshops listed above are open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The GMCTL also offers workshops, non-credit courses and resources specifically aimed to graduate students and postdocs.
Get Help
Connect with the team at the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning for more details about events, courses and workshops.
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