EdTech 2019 Recorded Sessions

Myhal 150 is a daunting room to enter on the first day of classes. It is far more frightening for the teacher. How do you use a room whose screens (at a total of about 750 sq. ft.) are larger than the average Toronto rental condo (724 sq. ft., according to the Financial Post)?

This presentation will provide an overview of the collaborative work underway between ACE, the Innovation Hub, and CTSI to better understand how instructors and instructional teams can be supported as they facilitate student learning in active learning classrooms.

We taught our large (~800) first year engineering design course in the Active Learning classroom Myhal 150. The year was filled with amazing satisfaction, unexpected pains and what were we thinking moments. We are here to share.

In this presentation, we will review our experience running ESC103F tutorials pre-2017 in “old-style” tutorial rooms found in buildings like Bahen and Wallberg, our transition year in 2017 where we ran tutorials in both “old-style” rooms and the pilot TEAL room in Sandford Fleming, and our move into the Myhal TEAL rooms in 2018.

By using Small Teaching strategies involving regular assessment features in Quercus and the newly available VEA tool integrated into Quercus, low English proficiency students become empowered to keep up with weekly course readings, and voluntarily self-train to improve their language skills. When students can use VEA to accelerate their language development with course content, they are able to participate actively in class.

As a member of the teaching stream I have been interested in how to teach in smart classrooms that support active learning. Here is my story...

We have moved into Phase II of the University's Academic Toolbox Renewal process - How Do We Add New Tools to the Toolbox? This session will highlight aspects of this phase, and future phases, and engage participants in a conversation about the future of the toolbox.

This session will discuss a TEAL teaching strategy and approach. The intention of this teaching strategy is threefold, firstly to aim to further incorporate use of student’s personal devices as well as the technological tools available in the class to deliver content, activities, and expand the classroom and student capabilities. Secondly, to provide an opportunity for students to contribute in non-traditional ways. Thirdly, to utilize technology to preserve student’s efforts to support learning outside of the classroom setting.

We are using SCORM, to add active content, and then reduce lectures.

After conducting user research into the end-to-end experience of Engineering professors teaching in TEAL rooms, we will be presenting the experience map we created to capture this journey.