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Recent Posts
- Perspectives VI: Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom through Brightspace Discussions
- Why I Love Virtual Office Hours
- Perspectives V: Maintaining Academic Integrity Online through Fostering a Culture of Academic and Educational Integrity
- Free Online PD for Langara Faculty & Staff with Go2Knowledge
- Developing an Anti-Racist Organization: A Model
Author Archives: Shawna Williams
Perspectives VI: Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom through Brightspace Discussions
By Branca Mirnic, Instructor, LEAP Program Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. A whole semester and half later, we have found ourselves preparing for more semesters teaching … Continue reading
Why I Love Virtual Office Hours
By Frances Wintjes Clarke, MA, LSSC Instructor As the instructor for the asynchronous Langara Student Success Course (LSSC), I have grappled a lot with how to best connect to and engage with the approximately 3000 first year students who are … Continue reading
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Perspectives V: Maintaining Academic Integrity Online through Fostering a Culture of Academic and Educational Integrity
By Jessica Kalra, Instructor, Health Sciences and Biology Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. A whole semester and half later, we have found ourselves preparing for more … Continue reading
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Free Online PD for Langara Faculty & Staff with Go2Knowledge
With Langara’s membership with Go2Knowledge, you have incredible access to online professional development at your fingertips. What is Go2Knowledge? The Go2Knowledge website offers online professional development to staff and faculty in post-secondary institutions. They offer both live webinars and an on-demand digital library of over 300 webinars, categorized into six topics of relevance … Continue reading
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Perspectives IV: How Online Classes Made Me a Better Teacher
By Lucinda Atwood, Instructor, Langara School of Management Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. A whole semester later, we have found ourselves preparing for at least two … Continue reading
Perspectives III: I don’t know how to teach online… yet.
Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. Four months on, we have found ourselves finishing one semester remotely, delivering another fully online, and preparing for at least two … Continue reading
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The Virtual Watercooler
Looking for a place to talk to peers about topics related to teaching and learning online? We are here to help! TCDC invites you to a discussion series starting July 28th. Join us in this informal online space to share with colleagues … Continue reading
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Perspectives II: Online Assessments Benefit Biology Students that Performed Poorly in Face-to-Face Assessments
Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. Four months on, we have found ourselves finishing one semester remotely, delivering another fully online, and preparing for at least two … Continue reading
Perspectives I: Student perspectives on a sudden transition to online learning
Early in 2020, students all over the world experienced a sudden, dramatic, and unprecedented shift in their academic world. Four months on, we have found ourselves finishing one semester remotely, delivering another fully online, and preparing for at least two … Continue reading
Professional Development Opportunities for Teaching Online
Many instructional faculty and staff are looking for summer PD opportunities to learn about effective online teaching practices, and TCDC is here to help. TCDC is offering a 3-day workshop Online Course Design and Delivery at Langara. In this 3-day course, you will learn how to design … Continue reading
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Asynchronous Teaching: Helpful Tips
Asynchronous teaching, as we wrote about in our companion post The Case for Going Asynchronous is a useful approach that mitigates many barriers faced by both students and faculty in a remote learning environment. That said, asynchronous teaching is not … Continue reading
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The Case for Going Asynchronous
In late April, the colleges sent out the following message. You may have seen it: “To support a positive learning experience for students, the college would like to remind you to use asynchronous curriculum delivery where appropriate, and to limit … Continue reading
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Discover Unlimited Access to Live Webinars and Digital Library
Langara faculty and staff can access free live and recorded webinars by Innovative Educators in six diverse categories including teaching and learning, student success and institutional effectiveness.
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TCDC & EdTech Open House
The staff and faculty from Educational Technology (EdTech) and the Teaching and Curriculum Development Centre (TCDC) are excited to unveil our new home on the 2nd floor of the C-building at our Open House event on Wednesday, January 29th from 1:00pm to 3:30pm. … Continue reading
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