Doing research to inform teaching strategies and assessment practices
Alejandra (Sandra) Barriales-Bouche and Sun Young Kim teach Spanish language and German language courses, respectively, in the Department of Languages,Continue Reading
Teaching for Learning @ McGill University
Discussing what matters in higher education.
Alejandra (Sandra) Barriales-Bouche and Sun Young Kim teach Spanish language and German language courses, respectively, in the Department of Languages,Continue Reading
On October 4, 2018, I attended the 14th Annual Faculty of Science Undergraduate Research Conference which took place in McGill’sContinue Reading
Earlier in the summer at the European Geosciences Union in Vienna I learned about two dead-easy and great science communicationContinue Reading
On March 31st, McGill hosted the third annual “3 minutes to change the world” competition, where graduate students give threeContinue Reading
As an instructor of undergraduate courses, have you wondered how to get students to ask better questions or to understand that knowledge is not black and white? In this interactive workshop, you will meet the Inquiry Network, a group of McGill professors who have been tackling questions like this and have created a framework for enhancing students’ understanding of the relationship between research and course content. Read more –>
University students and faculty may not think of librarians as teachers, but increasingly the role of librarians is shifting from reference and book providers to active educators.[1] In the past, instruction in the library, often referred to as bibliographic instruction, served to orient students and other users to the organization of materials within the library’s collection. Now, the library is refocusing from a collection-centered model to a user-centered model, where instruction is tailored to the needs of the user… Read more –>
A little while ago, a colleague in the UK sent me this article “Barriers to Faculty Pedagogical Change: Lack ofContinue Reading
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