Applying what we know about learning and memory to enhance teaching
🎉 The new issue (15.1) of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL) is now available online!
Read it all here: https://shorturl.at/jQ4tv. For an overview of the key themes covered, check out my introduction for the issue: https://shorturl.at/vZEqa.
My colleagues (Siddiq Khan, Alecia Carolli, and Lillian Park) and I conducted this study to gain insight into students’ experiences of emergency remote delivery, and how to best support their learning during the this shift in course instruction. Our results highlight the importance of: 1) implementing active learning strategies to promote student engagement when courses are delivered remotely; 2) delivering course content in a clear and organized way; 3) providing students with multiple forms of learning resources. Click here for open access to the paper.
This past Education & Cognition Conference (EdCog 2021) was amazing! All of the sessions that I attended provided practical skills, exercises, and insights that I could apply in my teaching. I also had a great experience giving one of the keynotes; it was such a pleasure to present to such an energetic, engaged and passionate crowd. The visual note above outlines my talk – what a neat momento! Looking forward to EdCog2022!
Attended EdCog 2021 Sessions (all excellent!) – click here for a list of all the workshops offered
Microsoft Teams for Teaching and Collaboration (Basics)”
Led by Christa Morrison
Co-presenters:
Dione Leung
Mohamed Aslam
Dabeer Ahmad Abdul-Azeez
Ayesha Hassan
Revisiting your Teaching Philosophy Statement Following a Year of Pandemic Teaching
Led by Erin Allard & Rebecca Taylor
Practice Makes Perfect: Supporting Student-Generated MCQs with PeerWise
Led by Paul Denny
It was a pleasure to work on this video abstract with co-authors (Celia Popovic and Mandy Frake-Mistak) for our paper in the International Journal for Academic Development (reference below). A big thanks to Meagan Veneracion, from TLR In Action (tlraction.com), for her amazing animation/illustration work for this video!
Reference:
Kim, A.S.N., Popovic, C., Farrugia, L., Saleh, S.A.F., Maheux-Pelletier, G., & Frake-Mistak, M. (2020). On nurturing the emergent SoTL researcher: responding to challenges and opportunities. International Journal for Academic Development. doi: 10.1080/1360144X.2020.1842743
Request paper at https://bit.ly/3AJnkIQ.
I really enjoyed working on this blog post for the Association for Talent Development (ATD) with my colleagues: Drs. Celia Popovic and Brian Nairn. Here we summarize some of our findings on participation and learning effectiveness in the context of independent and group-based work, and we include a list of recommendations to encourage student participation.
This paper will be a first to remember for me; it’s my first paper published in 2021, and the first published under TLR In Action (our recently formed not-for-profit). It also happens to be my first paper published in The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL), where I’m taking up my first editorial position as an associate editor. This will be a first to remember!
Click here for a link to the paper! We show that students participation grades are predictive of their grades on course work that they complete individually in a blended learning context.
I’m thrilled to share this study on how we can support researchers who are new to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This study is particularly meaningful for me not only because of the importance of the topic, but also because I gained extremely valuable insights and experiences collaborating on this research with educational developers and students as research partners (Celia Popovic, Laura Farrugia, Salma Saleh, Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier, and Mandy Frake-Mistak). Working on this study largely ignited my interest in students as research partners, which I’ve examined with my colleagues (the corresponding paper is currently in press in the journal Imagining SoTL) and am currently collaboratively writing a book chapter on this topic with a student partner.
About half a year ago I started a non-profit corporation called Teaching and Learning Research In Action (TLR for short). Our mission statement: “We investigate the efficacy of teaching practices and make our findings public, particularly through non-traditional forms of dissemination”. Today we had our first group meeting. Here is some footage of our group discussing what excites us most about TLR. For more information about TLR please visit our website: https://tlraction.com.
I’m thrilled to receive this honour from the Association for Research Placement at York (ARPY), a student group at York University, for the research I’ve conducted with my student partners. I’m especially touched to have been selected via a student nomination and vote. A big heartfelt thank you to all my students and the ARPY!
Pop-up poetry is definitely one of the highlights of the annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for me. I was guided through an insightful, reflective process on student partnerships by Richard Harrison, resulting in ‘Evolution’ (the poem in the photo above). I’m very grateful to the Institute for SoTL and the organizers of the Symposium on SoTL for such an amazing symposium.