The Gradebook workshop is an engaging and interactive session that aims to support faculty members in ensuring assessments are aligned with their course's learning outcomes. Gradebook features are often underutilized leaving faculty to manually calculate and/or weight assignments to get final grades. Throughout the workshop, participants will learn how to effectively set up the Moodle...
This introductory workshop offers faculty a space to develop and nurture compassion for self and others through a mindfulness lens. As part of the trauma-informed teaching and learning Compassionate Learning Community initiative, mindfulness practices can bring awareness to individual and university needs. Participants will learn several meditations for personal practice as well as for use with students and colleagues. Register here
Have you heard of Draft Coach? KPU has procured Turnitin's Draft Coach tool which allows KPU students to submit their work for feedback to help them improve their writing and uphold academic integrity through three checks: the similarity check, citation check, and grammar guide. Attend this 30-minute presentation from the Teaching & Learning Commons and...
University students are generally new to a field of study and can find themselves overloaded, overwhelmed and frequently stuck in their coursework. However skilled or knowledgeable an educator may be in their subject area or pedagogical approaches, it can be difficult to pinpoint why learners are getting stuck, resulting in frustration and ongoing issues for...
3-part series: April 25, May 3, May 10, online, 1:00-2:15PM Curious and want to know more about ePortfolios? Here is your chance! Over the course of 3, 75 minute synchronous sessions you will learn the basics of ePortfolios, including the pedagogy and the tools that support their use for teaching and learning. We will cover...
This workshop will explore curriculum mapping as a tool to represent the complexity of a curriculum in a visual format. This provides clarity and intention for faculty around purpose, content and context for learning. It also makes the scaffolding of a curriculum visible as a means to identify gaps and achieve quality. We will also...
The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) is a multi-day workshop for faculty and instructional staff to develop and enhance their teaching and learning processes. Full participation for the ISW workshop is required. Participants will review teaching ideas, deliver three short lessons, and receive peer feedback to assist with instructional development. The overall purposes of the course...
Curious and want to know more about ePortfolios? Here is your chance! Over the course of 3, 75 minute synchronous sessions you will learn the basics of ePortfolios, including the pedagogy and the tools that support their use for teaching and learning. We will cover the basics of what ePorfolios are and their uses for...
REGISTER HERE In-person, Surrey campus, Arbutus 2410 (2nd floor library) Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 10:00AM-12:00PM This orientation introduces the effective use of the technology enhanced classroom to support your learner’s experience. Using classroom capture technology and streaming technology allows learners to participate remotely and in person depending on their personal needs on any given day,...