{"id":47116,"date":"2017-10-12T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47116"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:33:18","slug":"hutchison-to-be-honoured-with-distinguished-teaching-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/hutchison-to-be-honoured-with-distinguished-teaching-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutchison to be honoured with Distinguished Teaching Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Hutchison believes that teaching excellence cannot be achieved alone.<\/p>\n

It takes passion from the professor, support from the administration, ongoing collaboration with colleagues and buy in from students.<\/p>\n

The Brock professor of 18 years is being recognized with the University\u2019s 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award, which honours a faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to teaching and learning. Hutchison said he could not have earned the prestigious prize were it not for the partnerships he has forged with students in his project-based learning courses.<\/p>\n

Through project-based learning, students collaborate with their peers on real-world projects that are sponsored by clients outside of the course. Hutchison \u2014 a cross-appointed Professor in the Department of Teacher Education and the Centre for Digital Humanities, where he serves as Director \u2014 has been an enthusiastic adopter of the method at the post-secondary level. He has actively used project-based learning to enhance his teaching and connect his students\u2019 experiences to real-world outcomes. Hutchison has also pursued studies which have led him to become a certified project manager.<\/p>\n

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Brock Professor David Hutchison recently presented at the August 2017 Digital Pedagogy Institute about integrating experiential learning into his Foundations of Project Management online course.<\/p><\/div>\n

To emphasize the collaborative nature of his teaching method, Hutchison pointed to one of the Brock University Design Studio (BUDS) projects he led last year and the diverse cross section of students who participated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn partnership with the St. Catharines Museum, I worked with students from Labour Studies, History and Interactive Arts and Science to develop a digital exhibit for the City of St. Catharines’ Welland Canal Fallen Workers Memorial,\u201d he said of the immersive experience. \u201cThe History and Labour Studies students largely wrote the content for the exhibit, while the Interactive Arts and Science students worked on the user interface and back end code.”<\/p>\n

The exhibit will be launched in November.<\/p>\n

Hutchison credited the Brock community for playing a significant role in helping him to enhance his teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am indebted to the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and their many workshops and presentations, as well as the teaching best practices shared by colleagues,\u201d he said. \u201cOverall, Brock is an institution and community that values teaching. A lot of my work is collaborative and this is a very collaborative University.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hutchison said when he reaches out to colleagues, there is a \u201creally good chance they will want to work together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work that I have done would not have been possible without a strong sense of collegiality, as well as ongoing attention from the University administration to teaching quality and the needs of students.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is this sense of collaboration, and the new possibilities it brings, that drive Hutchison\u2019s teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year in my courses, I am meeting students from different backgrounds and different academic departments,\u201d he said. \u201cI like learning about where they have come from, what they are looking for in their studies and where they are headed, both academically and career wise. \u00a0I value the collaborations that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Hutchison\u2019s contribution to teaching has been recognized. He received the University\u2019s Faculty of Education Teaching Award in 2013 and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’s Brightspace Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning in 2016.<\/p>\n

Brock\u2019s Provost and Vice-President, Academic, Tom Dunk, emphasized the substantial contribution Hutchison has made to teaching excellence at the University.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrock is known nationally for its leadership in experiential learning and transdisciplinary programming,\u201d said Dunk, \u201cand David\u2019s ongoing commitment to project-based learning within his teaching is key to our leadership and continued innovations in these areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he continues to promote and implement project-based learning throughout the University, Hutchison sees this most recent award as acknowledgment of not only his own work, but also the work of the University community as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, this award recognizes the importance of experiential learning at Brock,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the award reinforces our commitment to experiential learning as one of the defining characteristics of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

That commitment, he said, has become a huge draw for students and faculty.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last few years, we have really seen Brock emphasize the numerous types of experiential learning activities students can engage in,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my work fits into that context. If I wasn\u2019t at Brock already, the focus on experiential learning is something that would have made me want to work here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hutchison will be presented with the Distinguished Teaching Award at Brock University\u2019s Fall Convocation ceremony on Friday, Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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