Session description

This webinar is part of CTSI's Office 365 for Teaching and Learning Series. We will explore the differences between asynchronous and synchronous modalities of teaching from a distance. We will review how you can use Microsoft Teams Video Meetings to offer webinars and consider best practices for conducting a synchronous session with your students. We will also provide tips for using Microsoft Stream and/or Microsoft PowerPoint to pre-record lectures and make them available for your students to view in Quercus.

Session outcomes  

• Distinguish between synchronous and asynchronous teaching
• Host a webinar on Microsoft Teams Video Meetings to meet synchronously with students
• Record a lecture using PowerPoint and/or Stream to engage students in an asynchronous learning experience
• Navigate Quercus and Office 365 support resources

Session description

This session is part of the 2021 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) webinar series. It provides an overview of interpreting quantitative and qualitative data (with an emphasis on the former), either in your own research or in reading the literature, focusing on what is most relevant for teaching and learning questions. We begin the webinar with the basics of entering, reading, visualizing, and understanding quantitative data. Following this, we demonstrate some common graphing and statistical tools for exploring and understanding quantitative datasets including looking at outliers, reliability, trends, and group comparisons. Finally, we address how to analyse qualitative data on a large scale (e.g., word clouds, content analysis, and the aforementioned analyses), as well as how these types of data can complement one another's findings. This webinar provides tools to both conduct one’s own analyses, as well as evaluate the quality of the analyses in others’ studies.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Read and interpret basic quantitative data 
• Understand common methods to visualise and/or analyse quantitative data
• Apply appropriate data exploration and analysis tools in your research
• Integrate qualitative data into data analyses
• Evaluate the quality of analyses used in teaching and learning studies

This webinar is open to instructors seeking introductory level information on data interpretation in teaching and learning studies. Part I is recommended (but not required) for guidance on how to construct surveys and understand the resulting data (see March 18th webinar recording- contact CTSI for access).

Preparing Your Teaching Dossier (Registration restricted to faculty)

Registration link! Facilitated by Cristina D’Amico, PhD (Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Graduate Student Development & TA Training, CTSI), Cora McCloy, PhD (Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI) & Kyle Turner, MSc (Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning, CTSI)  | April 21, 2021 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm   

Session description

Join staff from Academic Success for a discussion about academic resilience and how to support student learning, as way to create a more equitable classroom. In this session, we will share early insights from our Learning Well program, the Reflect, Connect, and Practice model and how these strategies can be incorporating into classroom teaching.

These informal roundtables offer faculty an opportunity to engage in small group learning about how to create equitable classrooms through:

• Exploring why they may feel hesitant to bring an equity lens to their curriculum
• Reflection on their teaching practices and their own social positionality
• Sharing ideas for how to introduce a topic into their curriculum through an equity lens
• Workshopping ideas for new assignments together
  Listening to the perspectives of guest speakers