All members of the Brock community are invited to join us as we discuss Paulette Regan’s
Unsettling the Settler Within
Thursday May 28th at 1:00 pm
For more information on this book, the discussion and how to register, please visit the CPI Events page.
Teaching Assistants will receive 2 credits towards their Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education.
Planning Your Online Course
CPI’s online workshops are available to groups of instructors to plan & design for online learning.
Visit CPI’s Flexible Teaching & Learning site for more details.
Professional Development for Brock University Teaching Assistants
Open to all Brock University teaching assistants, marker graders, tutorial leaders, and lab demonstrators. TA workshops are applicable to all disciplines.
Instructional Strategies 101: Saturday September 22, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m., ST 103 Active Learning Classroom (across from the Guernsey Market)
Join us for an interactive session that will add more tools to your instructional toolbox. This will include both discussions and demonstrations of a wide variety of strategies or techniques one can use to deepen learning. Online registration is now closed.
Teaching and Accessibility: Saturday September 22, 2018, 10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m., ST 103 Active Learning Classroom (across from the Guernsey Market)
Please join staff members of Student Accessibility Services (SAS) and the CPI to explore ways of facilitating greater access to learning in our seminars, labs, and tutorials. Together, we will explore some of the challenges students with disabilities may experience in small group learning contexts and discuss ways to address these challenges to foster engagement and learning. Online registration is now closed.
Participation in each workshop will earn 1 TA credit towards the completion of a TA Certificate.
For additional information contact [email protected], or 905-688-5550 ext. 3933.
Looking for some assistance with Isaak Sakai Brock’s Learning Management System?
Sakai Update Workshop: Join the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation for a discussion and demonstration of Sakai’s version 12. This version offers some polish after the substantial interface changes that came with Sakai 11, but will also offer up some new tools and features.
Update notes for the Sakai 12 update at Brock are available at https://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai/Update_Notes:_Isaak-Sakai_12.
WHO: Open to all Brock University faculty, sessional instructors and teaching staff. While all are welcome to attend, this session is tailored to participants that are familiar with Isaak-Sakai.
WHAT: This session will provide key information on the Sakai 12 update to participants that are familiar with Isaak-Sakai. Learn how these enhancements can be used to support teaching in your courses. Computers will be provided within this space.
WHEN: Wednesday, September 12, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Classroom A, ST228, James A. Gibson Library
Getting Started with Isaak Sakai Workshop:
This hands-on Isaak/Sakai introductory workshop is ideal for those new to Isaak Sakai and those with an interest in becoming familiar with or use the features offered to support your teaching.
WHO: Open to all Brock University faculty, sessional instructors and teaching staff from all disciplines. While all are welcome to attend, this session is tailored to participants that are new to Isaak-Sakai or who have at most an introductory level of comfort.
WHAT: This workshop is designed to be a hands-on orientation. The format consists of commonly used tools in Isaak-Sakai followed by flexible hands-on work with your course materials for the remaining half hour. Participants are encouraged to bring course materials. Computers will be provided within the workshop space.
WHEN: Monday, September 17, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, James A. Gibson Library, Classroom A, ST228
JUST A QUICK QUESTION?
One-on-one consultations are available by appointment at [email protected] and X4734.
Professional Development for Brock University faculty & instructors.
Open to new Brock University Faculty and Sessional Instructors.
Welcome to Brock University! Each year the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (CPI) hosts a New Instructor Teaching Day for newly hired full-time and part-time instructors at Brock. This event is also open to those who may have missed it the previous year.
Included will be information on how CPI can support you in your teaching at Brock University. Please bring any questions you may have about teaching at Brock University.
Online registration is now closed for New Faculty/Instructor Teaching Day Tuesday August 21 | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm |
Are you developing a new course? Would you like to revise one of your current courses?
Join facilitators from the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (CPI) and explore considerations for designing an engaging and effective course. This workshop is designed to support you in the development of your course and includes an overview of the required components of Brock syllabi. Online registration is open.
Course Design/Redesign Tuesday July 24 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Course Design/Redesign Tuesday August 28 10:00 am – 11:30 am
This session is open to new and seasoned Brock University educators interested in developing or revising their course(s). Private consultations are available by appointment.
Questions? Contact CPI at [email protected] or x3933.
TA Awards Submission Deadline: Friday March 2, 2018.
Brock University TA Awards recognize the important contributions to the university by TA’s, seminar leaders, and lab demonstrators.
Four awards are available annually:
Award details and criteria are available online. For additional information contact [email protected] or x3933.
Join us for an overview of five Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects from Brock University Chancellor’s Chairs for Teaching Excellence on Tuesday March 6th, 9:30 am – 11:30 am, in ST103. Online registration is now open.
A Focus on Faculty: Building a Contemplative Campus One Classroom at a Time, Paula Gardner, Department of Health Sciences
Using Sakai to Flip the Instructional Focus, Camille Rutherford, Department of Teacher Education
Do Students Believe they can become Industry Leaders? A longitudinal study, Kirsty Spence and Shannon Kerwin, Department of Applied Health Sciences
Project-based learning in Universities, David Hutchison, Centre for Digital Humanities
Outdoor/Experiential Pedagogy: Greening Niagara’s Schoolyards, Mary Breunig, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
This event will also include a snapshot of the Teaching Culture Perception Survey running March 5 – March 26, 2018 and the upcoming Making Sense of Open Educational Resources events.
Hosted by the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation.
The Instructional Skill Workshop (ISW) is a certificate program designed to enhance teaching effectiveness through teaching practice and feedback in a small group setting with peers and colleagues. This 3 day workshop is ideal for both new and veteran instructors and utilizes an intensive experiential learning approach.
Wednesday May 1, Thursday May 2, and Friday May 3, 2019 (ISW 3 day certificate program)
Open to instructors, teaching staff and teaching assistants. Multiple sessions offered.
Register online at brocku.ca/pedagogical-innovation/services-cpi/isw
Questions? Contact the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at [email protected] or x3933.
This week those listed as the primary contact for a course or adhoc site within the learning management system (Isaak-Sakai) were contacted about the pending deletion process of sites that are 4 years or older. This includes Isaak-Sakai adhoc sites that have not been modified in 4 years.
What does this mean?
Older Isaak-Sakai site content can be copied into newer sites or exported from key tools. Steps on how to export content have been documented at: https://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai/How_do_I_export_site_content .
Should you wish to retain site content, the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (CPI) is available to help instructors retrieve, export and/or copy all of their site data. Additional information is available here.
More information about the scheduled deletion of courses can be found at: https://lms.brocku.ca/x/RwSPVp and https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2017/12/four-year-old-sakai-sites-to-be-deleted/. Questions and support requests can be directed to CPI at: [email protected], x4734.