All activities
The Teaching and Learning Support Services (TLSS) offers free training activities for faculty members. Some events are targeted at faculty, and some are targeted at teaching assistants. Conferences are open to all. Our workshops cover various topics in post-secondary education, such as teaching technology, university teaching, classrooms, etc. We also sometimes offer full days, such as the Design-A-Thon, new faculty and teaching assistant orientation days, etc.
Events by category: Faculty members - Teaching Assistants - Keynote lectures - Special events.
All times listed are in the following time zone: (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Designing for Learning in the Age of AI: Agency, Authenticity and Open Pedagogy
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Generative and increasingly agentic AI are challenging educators to rethink what, how and why we assess. As AI systems become more capable of producing polished work and completing complex tasks, assessment focused primarily on final products may tell us less about what students actually understand, can do and are learning along the way...
This event is organized and managed by Contact North.
Discover YuJa Engage: Promoting Classroom Participation
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This workshop will introduce you to YuJa Engage, a tool designed to foster student participation in class. You will explore the tool’s main features, including live polls, question types, and integration within the Virtual Campus (Brightspace).
Discover YuJa Engage: Promoting Classroom Participation
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This workshop will introduce you to YuJa Engage, a tool designed to foster student participation in class. You will explore the tool’s main features, including live polls, question types, and integration within the Virtual Campus (Brightspace).
How to Design Online Courses Students Want to Show Up For
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Online learning is not broken. Too many online courses, however, have become content warehouses with deadlines. Students learn to navigate clutter, locate hidden instructions, complete mechanical discussion posts and remain largely invisible. Disengagement is easy to hide, and feedback often arrives too late to influence learning...
This event is organized and managed by Contact North.
Mastering Open Ed Micro-Credential
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Whether you are a faculty member, instructor, staff, or even graduate student, this course can help you build foundational knowledge to engage with open educational resources (OER) and help you expand your pedagogy through engaging with open publishing tools and open education concepts. This course provides insights into open licensing, sourcing quality OER, and using tools like Pressbooks and H5P to create engaging, accessible content...
Empowered Educator
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Do you want to improve your online teaching skills? Do you want to be able to create content, gather resources, support your students' learning or design effective assessment tools?
This professional learning program could be just what you are looking for!


