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Megan Burnett, Assistant Director, TATP/CTSI, presents Online Instructional Design at the TATP |
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Megan coordinates the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, overseeing a team of 15 graduate student peer trainers and a Curriculum Developer. She routinely leads sessions on lesson planning, documenting your teaching and active learning, co-facilitates the annual CTSI Course Design Institute, and collaborates nationally on issues related to graduate student professional development. |
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Erica Cambly, Lecturer, presents Ideas to Action: Developing an interactive module for chronic wound education |
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Erica has an interest in the development of reusable, interactive content for delivery of lecture content. She has successfully created learning guides and has acted as content expert in the development of online interactive modules for students in professional health education programs. Using a flipped classroom model for many of the lectures provides additional time in the class for discussion and interaction between the learners and the lecturer. |
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Shai Cohen, Sessional Lecturer, presents Integrating Calculus with Online Teaching |
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Shai Cohen is a dinosaur who tends to avoid using computers. As a skeptic, he has found teaching an online course course to be both challenging and rewarding. He spends his time teaching, thinking about teaching, and writing about himself in the third-person. |
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Alan Chong, Senior Lecturer, presents Lights, Camera, Act Natural: Connecting with your Audience through Video Learning Objects |
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Alan Chong is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Communication Program, where he teaches writing and oral presentation strategies for engineering contexts. He primarily coordinates and teaches courses in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering, but also in Engineering Science, where this initiative to support thesis students through reusable learning objects is housed. His research focus, aside from technology and engineering education, is on the popular communication of science, the topic of his third year elective course. |
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Michelle French, Senior Lecturer, presents Attempting to create a small class experience in Convocation Hall: Use of the Active Learning Platform |
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Michelle French is interested in examining/implementing methods to enhance student learning and engagement in both large and small classes and to foster critical thinking and communication skills. This coming year, she plans to visit several academic institutions around the world to learn more about best teaching practices. |
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Stian Håklev, Institutional Researcher, Open UToronto, presents Learning Analytics |
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Stian is a senior PhD student in digital learning at OISE as well as an Institutional researcher at OpenUToronto. He is also the data manager for EdX and Coursera MOOCs at University of Toronto. |
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Stephanie Halldorson, Developer, presents Developing ClassApp: Biology |
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Stephanie is an award-winning writer and substantive editor who has worked for years as a volunteer tutor for students struggling to succeed in university. Prior to developing the app, she created a website for English language learners, lectured at the University of Toronto in the Department of English, and offered Writing in the Sciences tutorials for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. |
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Laurie Harrison, Director of Online Learning Strategies, presents Online On-Ramps: Get Up To Speed on Accessible Design Strategies |
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Laurie Harrison provides support, consultation and leadership in the sphere of online learning across all three UofT campuses.This includes undergraduate and graduate online course development and coordination of hybrid, blended and flipped course design projects. Laurie is also leads out the Open Utoronto MOOC initiatives, and facilitates a number of faculty development and community networks. |
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William Heikoop, Online Learning Coordinator, presents Online On-Ramps: Get Up To Speed on Accessible Design Strategies |
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Will is involved in all things online learning. MOOC Initiatives, Ontario Online initiatives and Online Undergraduate Course Initiatives; he has a part to play in all of it. |
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Michal Kasprzak, Curriculum Developer, presents Online Instructional Design at the TATP |
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Mike provides pedagogical support to TAs and graduate student Course Instructors who want to integrate effective educational approaches into their teaching and learning. He works with the team of TATP graduate student peer trainers to design, develop and assess curriculum and training materials for workshops and e-learning related to teaching at the University of Toronto. |
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Jan Mahrt-Smith, Associate Professor of Finance, presents Designing and Delivering a Multi-Mode Online Course: videos, webinars, group work, etc. |
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I am an associate professor of finance and the director of the Rotman MBA program. I love using videos and webinars to free up classroom time for discussions and activities. I also enjoy trying new technologies like authentic response videos (student produced) and interactive quizzing inside videos. Finally, I like to think about the future of education so we don't all wake up one day and find ourselves redundant - at least not until I am significantly closer to retirement. |
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Melody Neumann, Senior Lecturer, presents Team Up! A tool for synchronous online group work |
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Melody Neumann teaches both very large and small classes and is always interested in learning ways to better engage students and help them to develop the skills they will need as life-long learners. In addition to Team Up!, she has been involved with creating and teaching an online course and a partly-flipped course. |
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Scott Ramsay, Adjunct Professor, presents How to beat a cat: Effective Educational Video Formats |
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I'm interested in creating reusable learning objects that can be used by students having a range of learning styles, backgrounds and abilities. I'm currently most interested in video and hands-on activities demonstrating science and engineering fundamentals. |
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Helen Rodd, Professor, presents Developing ClassApp: Biology |
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As part of teaching biology to undergraduates, I provide opportunities for them to do a range of written assignments, including mini research projects. We developed ClassApp: Biology to help them with those assignments and to show them ways to become more engaged with biology. |
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Lisa Romkey, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, presents Lights, Camera, Act Natural: Connecting with your Audience through Video Learning Objects |
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Lisa Romkey is the Senior Lecturer, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Division of Engineering Science, where she manages a variety of educational projects and teaches courses in technology & society studies and engineering education. Lisa's current research focuses on teaching practices in engineering and the development and use of rubrics. On the teaching technology side of things, she is currently working on a series of reusable video learning objects for the undergraduate thesis course in Engineering Science, and in the past collaborated with researchers at OISE on multimedia case studies for science teachers. |
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Michael Seica, Adjunct Professor, presents Mechanics Online: Challenges, Outcomes and Lessons Learnt |
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Prof. Seica received his Ph.D. degree in structural engineering from the University of Toronto, after developing a multi-disciplinary research programme on the condition assessment of infrastructure systems. He had previously graduated from the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania. Prof. Seica has been teaching engineering courses in the Department of Civil Engineering since 2000. Since his appointment as Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto in 2008, he has specialised and undertaken research in the area of Protective Design. He has published the outcome of his work in major, peer-reviewed engineering journals. |
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Mike Spears, MADLab Manager, presents Developing ClassApp: Biology |
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Mike Spears manages the University of Toronto Mobile App Development Lab (MADLab), and is also a full-time app developer for UofT, specializing in iOS apps. Prior to working at the MADLab, Mike was a part of the Computing Services department at the Rotman School of Management. In addition to his work at UofT, Mike volunteers his time and technical expertise with the non-profit Toronto Design Offsite Festival, including offering their official Festival mobile app. |
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Micah Stickel, Senior Lecturer and Chair, First Year, presents A Student Panel on Real-Time Feedback and Student/Faculty Engagement |
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Since I started teaching full-time 8 years ago, I have been very interested in using technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience. While I approach the use of technology with reasonable skepticism, I have found that it can be quite beneficial to improve student engagement and work to break down the barrier between students and faculty. |
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Fareed Teja, Academic Information and Communication Technology Supervisor, presents Ideas to action: developing an interactive module for chronic wound education |
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Fareed is interested in the integration of teaching and learning technologies to optimize learning outcomes. Fareed is heavily engaged in graduate online programs. Recent projects include the use of online proctoring services for online exams, participation in an MTCU funded Ontario Online Statistics Module project, and various faculty capacity building initiatives. |
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Andy Wagner, Application Programer, University of Toronto Libraries, presents MyMedia: The growing role of video in higher education |
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Andy leads the libraries' MyMedia project and joined U of T in 2014 with a background in fontend programming, web and application development, systems design, and web architecture. Outside of work he is a dedicated coffee aficionado who enjoys photography, brewing, and maker culture. |
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Jim Wallace, Professor, presents How offering a MOOC can improve a regular credit course |
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Jim Wallace is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. He teaches courses on energy topics, as well as conducting research on alternative fuels and IC engine exhaust emissions. One of his courses, MIE 515 Alternative Energy Systems, has been offered online since Fall 2011 and was both the source and beneficiary of the MOOC Wind, Waves, and Tides offered on Coursera in Fall 2014. |
