马会论坛

Discussion Dates

• September 25, 1鈥�2 p.m. Sections 1-3 (pp. 1-42)
• October 30, 1鈥�2 p.m. Section 4 (pp. 43-90)
• November 27, 11 a.m.鈥�12 p.m. Section 5 (pp. 91-122)

While discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) have become increasingly commonplace within academia, seldomly are Indigenous perspectives included within these conversations apart from being gestured to as one of the many 鈥渆quity issues鈥� surrounding the use of AI.

Providing a dedicated space for 马会论坛 community members to expand their understanding of the intersections of Indigenous knowledge systems and AI, this virtual reading group invites participants to question and consider how AI advancements compliment, challenge, resonate and/or contrast with various Indigenous worldviews, ethics, and epistemologies.

The chosen text for Fall 2024, , is the result of collaborative work between M膩ori, First Nations, Inuit, M茅tis, Pacific Islanders, and Aboriginal Australians, that recognizes and affirms the diversity of Indigenous views and approaches to generative AI. As described by the authors, 鈥渞ather than being a single unified statement this position paper is a collection of heterogeneous texts that range from design guidelines to scholarly essays to artworks to descriptions of technology prototypes to poetry.鈥� (2020) Regardless of the discipline your work is situated within, this series aims to offer meaningful opportunities to engage with the complexities of AI and Indigenous knowledge systems. Through a series of facilitated discussions, participants will delve into the diverse perspectives presented in the position paper, critically examining how Indigenous protocols can inform ethical AI development, challenge existing paradigms, and propose alternative approaches.

Facilitators

• Rachelle McKay, Anishinaabe, MA Indigenous Governance 鈥� Educational Developer, Indigenous Knowledges & Ways of Knowing
• Abdullah Al Mukaddim 鈥� Artificial Intelligence Analyst

Friday, September 20
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Killam Library, Room B400*

Facilitators

Joanne Mills, Psychologist, Student Health & Wellness, and two Stay Connected Peer Support workers (who are students themselves).

The MH101 session is limited to faculty, instructors, and staff at 马会论坛 and King's.

In any given year 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental illness, and according to Statistics Canada youth aged 15-24 are the most likely group to suffer the effects of a mental illness, substance dependency and suicide. Considering most university students are within this age group it is essential that those working with University students are provided the necessary knowledge and resources to recognize and respond to students in distress.

MH101 is a short yet informative presentation developed for university faculty and staff to increase awareness and understanding of mental illness and mental health problems, thus increase your confidence in supporting students. 

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement.

锘縒e also ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

Monday September 23
10-11:30 a.m.
Killam Library, Room B400 (basement)*

Want to spend LESS time grading and providing feedback? Grading using rubrics has many benefits such as reducing grading time for instructors, and providing clear and consistent expectations to students. In this in-person workshop, you will:

• Learn the purpose and principles underlying grading using rubrics.
• Be introduced to different types of rubrics, the components that make up a rubric, appropriate language to use for rubrics, and the step-by-step process for constructing effective rubrics.
• Participate in a rubric swap! Review and share feedback on a peer鈥檚 rubric. Workshop participants are kindly asked to bring one paper copy of a rubric that you are looking to gather feedback on. If you do not have one, a sample rubric will be provided by the workshop facilitator.

Facilitator

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Curriculum), Centre for Learning and Teaching

Intended Audience

• Faculty
• Graduate Students

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement.

锘縒e also ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

Wednesday, September 25
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Online via Microsoft Teams

COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) is a teaching model that is primarily used for internationalization of academics. It has been broadly used by instructors who are (i) interested in expanding students鈥� intercultural and global perspectives (ii) keen on offering inclusive and digitally accessible learning experiences, and (iii) seek innovative teaching and learning experiences through diverse perspectives of knowledges and ways of knowing.  According to Jon Rubin who coined the term COIL in 2006 for virtual exchange educational programs, 鈥渋n its most essential and typical form, COIL is a bilateral exchange and corresponding pedagogy, embedded into existing courses across two, or sometime more, institutions.鈥�

A more holistic definition developed by Rubin (2021) is that 鈥淐OIL utilizes the Internet to empower students and instructors around the world to develop curiosity, flexibility, and generosity in concert with their academic partners. This benefits two or more classrooms of collaborating students, usually located in different countries, who have had different life experiences. COIL is also a way for students and instructors to learn about their discipline from a new perspective and can be a method for engaging those with other experiences and perspectives about how this knowledge might be applied.鈥�

In this 1-hour interactive introductory session, participants will be introduced to COIL as I respond to What, Why, and How questions you may have on your minds about COIL. Dr. Leanne Stevens (Faculty of Science) will be invited to share her initial thoughts on COIL as she plans to introduce the model for Faculty of Science as the Associate Dean Academic.

Keywords

international, intercultural, inclusive, global

Presenters

Dr. Leanne Stevens, University Teaching Fellow and Associate Dean Academic, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Science

Dr. Shazia Nawaz Awan, Educational Developer, Internationalization and Intercultural Competency, Centre for Learning and Teaching

Intended Audience

• Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students who are interested in international and intercultural teaching and learning experiences
• Open to all

A teaching dossier is a critical component for any academic job search, and yet we often do not consider the time and work it takes to develop a dossier that reflects the experience, values, and evidence of our teaching. This two-week retreat covers the fundamentals of a teaching dossier (e.g., teaching philosophy, student evaluations, teaching materials), and will provide you with an opportunity to take the time to start developing the foundations to your own dossier and reflect on your learning and teaching experiences. You will also have the opportunity to give and receive peer feedback. The retreat facilitators will also be available to answer questions and offer guidance on the development of your dossier.

Learn more about the retreat and how to register. 

Come to our virtual drop-in session to connect with a Senior Educational Developer! Ask questions on how to enhance your teaching practices, bounce new ideas off a sounding board, debrief on your teaching experiences, and receive resources to support you on your teaching journey. Some topics you may wish to discuss include, but are not limited to: course design, teaching approaches, active learning, assessment design, managing challenging student behaviour, how to use SLEQ feedback, and the emotional labour of teaching. Join online anytime during the listed times, and stay for as little or as much time as you would like.

To receive the links to the drop-in sessions, .

Facilitator

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Curriculum), Centre for Learning and Teaching 

Intended Audience

• Faculty
• Graduate Students
• This session is limited to the 马会论坛 and King's community

Friday, October 4
10:30 a.m.鈥�3 p.m.
Killam Library, Room B400*

The Centre for Learning and Teaching has several Teaching and Learning Grants that are awarded annually. This event will showcase projects that have been supported by CLT Teaching and Learning Grants. In these roundtable sessions, each presenter/grant recipient will be assigned to a table. Attendees will choose a table, and the presenters will take 15-20 minutes to share and discuss the teaching and learning projects they are working on or have completed that have been supported by their CLT grant. Then, attendees can move to another table and repeat this process.

These chats with grant recipients will be a great opportunity to:

• Learn about some amazing teaching and learning initiatives happening at Dal that you may be able to adapt or implement in your own courses
• Get an idea for the kinds of projects that the CLTs grants support to inform your own grant applications
• Network with Dal faculty, staff, and students who have a passion for teaching and learning

There will be complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks!

Each session has a registration cap of 15-20, so please register for each session you鈥檇 like to attend.

Session 1

10:30鈥�11:30 a.m.

• 鈥淏uilding graduate student competencies in academic publishing through the Healthy Populations Journal (HPJ): Special Issue on Inter-Professional Health Education (IPHE) and Collaborative Practice鈥�, Sara Kirk & Ivan Beck, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2024
• 鈥淓valuating Internships to Support Student Learning and Wellbeing鈥�, Becky Feicht, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, 2022
• 鈥淧rocess evaluation of the implementation of an inaugural Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience in a Collaborative Healthcare Setting focusing on student integration into hospital inpatient clinical pharmacy services鈥�, Natalie Kennie-Kaulbach, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, 2022
• 鈥淪tudents as Partners: Designing and Implementing Learning Assistant (LA) Program to Enhance Undergraduate Biochemistry Education鈥�, Shawn Xiong, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2022

Session 2

12:30鈥�1:30 p.m.

• 鈥淐olour Chemistry: Development and implementation of colour filter cards to reduce barriers individuals with colour vision deficiency experience when interpreting colour based experimental results鈥� (2021) and 鈥淓xploring Sensory Friendly Laboratory Environments鈥� (2023), Jennifer MacDonald, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2021 and 2023
• 鈥淓co-Hope: Developing Strategies to Counter Eco-Anxiety and Build Resilience in Students鈥�, Amy Mui & Georgia Klein, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2023
• 鈥淐onceptual Transfer for Students Learning New Programming Languages鈥�, Eric Poitras, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, 2022

Session 3

2鈥�3 p.m.

• 鈥淒eveloping Microbial Observatory Science Outreach Modules (MOSOMs)鈥�, Joseph Bielawski & Jessica Latimer, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2024
• 鈥淓nhancing accessibility of online learning resources for Introductory Organic Chemistry CHEM2401鈥�, Alison Thompson & Gaia Aish, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2022
• 鈥淐ollaborative development of anti-colonial occupational therapy pedagogy.鈥� Kaarina Valavaara, Anne Marie Ryan Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant Recipient, 2023

Event host

Dr. Kate Thompson. Educational Developer (SoTL), Centre for Learning and Teaching

Friday, October 11
1-3 p.m.
Killam Library, Room B400*

马会论坛鈥檚 Centre for Learning and Teaching offers several Teaching and Learning Grants, and the fall application deadlines are fast approaching! If you鈥檙e planning to apply for any of these grants, this session is for you.

The session will start with an opportunity to hear from two previous grant recipients who will share tips and tricks about the grant writing process. They will discuss how they approached writing and formatting their grant applications, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

Then, participants will have plenty of time to work together to write, brainstorm, ask questions, and get feedback about your grant applications.

Facilitators

Dr. Kate Thompson, Educational Developer (SoTL) with the CLT
Dr. Amy Mui, Senior Instructor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Eric Poitras, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science

Intended Audience

• Faculty and staff
• Graduate students

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement. We ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

Wednesday, October 16
2鈥�3 p.m.
Online via Microsoft Teams

The aim of this session is to provide an overview of the foundational concepts in qualitative research methods as they apply to the design of teaching and learning research. We will explore the purpose of qualitative research and the methodological characteristics that distinguish it from quantitative research. We will also discuss key qualitative paradigms and approaches, such as phenomenology and grounded theory, the role of the researcher in qualitative studies, and strategies to enhance the trustworthiness of qualitative research. The session will conclude with guidance on formulating research questions in qualitative studies. This session is the first in a series on qualitative research methods; subsequent sessions will cover reliability, data collection methods, data coding, and analysis.

Facilitator

Dr. Nasim Tavassoli 鈥� Educational Developer (Student Development) with the Centre for Learning and Teaching

Intended Audience

• Faculty
• Staff 
• Graduate Students
• Open to external people

This session is part of the SoTL Scholars Program annual series of workshops on the topic of SoTL.

Thursday, October 17
2-3:30 p.m.
Online via Microsoft Teams

Dr. Peter Wafula Masinde

Dr. Lord Abbey

Audrie-Jo McConkey

Dr. Greg Cameron

COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) is a teaching model that is primarily used for internationalization of teaching and learning experiences. It has been broadly used by instructors who are (i) interested in expanding students鈥� intercultural and global perspectives (ii) keen on offering inclusive and digitally accessible learning experiences, and (iii) seek innovative teaching and learning experiences through diverse perspectives of knowledges and ways of knowing.

As part of global engagement initiatives, at 马会论坛, Faculty of Agriculture, instructors have been engaged in virtual exchange of educational programs through multiple ways. One of which is COIL, which was leveraged as a bilateral exchange and corresponding pedagogy, embedded into existing courses across international settings.

In this session, professors from 马会论坛 and MUST, Kenya will share their experiences as they developed, collaborated on and taught COIL courses and will share what worked, what lessons were learned, and how they see COIL in their future projects. Please join us to learn more about their COIL experiences and how that can inspire you for your courses.

Key words: international, intercultural, inclusive, global, collaborative

Panelists

• Dr. Peter Wafula Masinde, Associate Professor of Horticulture, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Meru University of Science and Technology, Kenya
• Dr. Lord Abbey, Associate Professor, 马会论坛 Faculty of Agriculture
• Audrie-Jo McConkey, Senior Instructor, Department of Animal Sciences and Aquaculture.
• Dr. Greg Cameron, Associate Professor of Political Science and Rural Studies, Department of Business & Social Science, Faculty of Agriculture, 马会论坛

Moderator

Dr. Shazia Nawaz Awan, Educational Developer, Internationalization and Intercultural Competency, Centre for Learning and Teaching

Intended Audience

• Faculty
• Staff
• Graduate Students
• Open to external people

Tuesday October 29
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Killam Library, Room B400 (basement)

Back by popular demand: the Navigating the Emotional Labour of Teaching workshop! 鈥淓motional labour鈥� is a term that was first coined by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild in 1983 to describe the process of managing outward expressions of feelings to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. It involves wearing a 鈥渕ask鈥� that requires the suppression of negative emotions and the display of only positive emotions, regardless of how you actually feel. Consider a time when you received negative news and then had to teach ten minutes later or when you had to hide your frustration while telling the tenth student, 鈥淐heck the syllabus!鈥� Performing emotional labour can lead to lower job satisfaction and burnout (Humphrey, 2021). In this in-person workshop, you will:

• Learn what emotional labour looks like in the context of teaching and its associated impacts.
• Be introduced to a set of strategies to redirect the energy and efforts used for emotional labour toward effective pedagogy and instructor self-care.
• Reflect upon your own experiences with emotional labour in your teaching. Group sharing is welcomed, but not required.

Facilitator

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Curriculum), Centre for Learning and Teaching

Intended Audience

• Faculty
• Graduate Students
• Open to the 马会论坛 and King's community only

Monday, November 4
1-3 p.m.
Online via Microsoft Teams

Facilitators

Joanne Mills, Psychologist, Student Health & Wellness, and two Stay Connected Peer Support workers (who are students themselves).

The MH101 session is limited to faculty, instructors, and staff at 马会论坛 and King's.

In any given year 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental illness, and according to Statistics Canada youth aged 15-24 are the most likely group to suffer the effects of a mental illness, substance dependency and suicide. Considering most university students are within this age group it is essential that those working with University students are provided the necessary knowledge and resources to recognize and respond to students in distress.

MH101 is a short yet informative presentation developed for university faculty and staff to increase awareness and understanding of mental illness and mental health problems, thus increase your confidence in supporting students. 

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement.

锘縒e also ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.