Develop your teaching... remotely!
We're all trying to navigate this new remote teaching and learning environment and we can find success if we continue to work – and learn – together. Explore all of the webinars, services and programming available exclusively to Laurier's graduate student and postdoctoral teaching communities.
Consultations
As members of Laurier's graduate and doctoral teaching community, you have access to one-on-one consultations to support your teaching development. Request your appointment today.
Live Webinars
We are offering two webinars focused on remote teaching and learning. Select the dates for information and to register:
- Teaching Remotely | May 14: Discuss what is means to teach online and support student's learning remotely.
- Student Engagement in a Remote Course | June 16: Explore approaches to creating engagement while teaching a remote course.
Pre-recorded Webinars
- How to Support Students in Remote Learning Environments
- Lessons from "Flipped" Classrooms for Remote Learning
- Creating Community in Technology-Enhanced Remote Learning
- How to Bring PowerPoint to Life in Remote Learning
- Discussions to Cross Distances in Remote Teaching
Webinar recordings require a password. Please email the Develop Your Teaching team to request a password.
Certificates
University Teaching Foundations (UTF)
This certificate is a cohort-based sequence of engaging online modules intended to provide a foundation for success in the classroom as a teaching assistant as well as gain transferable skills applicable to future employment opportunities. Register for one of the two upcoming remote offerings of the UTF certificate:
Foundations in Online Teaching
Develop your online teaching skills and gain insight into the online course development process through a sequence of online modules and activities. You will have the opportunity to put the skills you learn into practice through the creation of an online lesson and participation in an online feedback session. Register today.
Introduction to Intercultural Teaching
As educators, we aspire to incorporate internationalization, global citizenship, and diversity into classrooms and curricula. During this certificate, you'll participate in online sessions designed to support your development as an educator in today’s complex higher education environment. Register today.
Curated Resources
The following resources about remote instruction from external sources provide further background, ideas, and considerations when transitioning to teaching in a remote environment.
STLHE
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a national organization providing a comprehensive list of curated teaching and learning resources. These support resources are constantly developing and offers good insight into how institutions across the country and responding to the move to remote instruction. They offer categories such as Teaching and Assessing, Well-Being, and Institutional-level resources and include a series of future and past webinars that can be watched for best practice tips.
McGill
Excellent resource that talks you through the process of reconsidering your assessment in a remote environment. Goes through sections such as Simplify, Prioritize, Offer Alternative Assessment Formats, Consider extended assignment deadlines, and Communicate. Each offers helpful ideas to explain the need for adjustments and how to make them work in relation to course learning outcomes.
Charles Hodges, Stephanie Moore, Barb Lockee, Torrey Trust and Aaron Bond
Very current article examining the difference between Online Learning and the shift to Remote Teaching in post-secondary education in response to the COVID-19 World Health Crisis.
Wiley Education Services
Simple resource that talks through preparing yourself for asynchronous delivery of courses and connects you to potential tools that can assist with your remote instructional goals.
Daniel Stanford
Discusses two key factors, bandwidth and immediacy, to consider when thinking about using synchronous and asynchronous approaches to teaching. Outlines in a clear diagram the different choices you have from an instructional point of view when considering combining high and low levels of both bandwidth and immediacy.
Faculty Focus
An article providing several tips for creating engaging experiences for students in a remote learning context. All of these tips offer equal relevance for remote teaching environments and outline some key questions to consider in ensuring that your course builds engagement and focuses on intended student outcomes.
Stanford University
An opinion piece written by a student at Stanford University facing accessibility issues in a Zoom classroom. Very brief at 1,362 words, and well worth the read to keep accessibility issues on our radar in a time when already marginalized communities are experiencing exacerbated levels of marginalization. Student also highlights importance of community.
Steve Joordens
Free online course created by Dr. Steve Joordens, a professor at the University of Toronto, which takes approximately nine hours to complete. Content includes understanding the anxiety response, managing anxiety, relaxation, managing the consumption of news, mental distraction, explaining physical distancing to children, the effects of isolate, strategies to make isolation more bearable, guarding against depression, and more.
Inside Higher Ed
Reflections from faculty who have been teaching online for years about their journey, great for any level of online teaching experience to read what people thought going in and how that has changed over time. Useful to consider how these lessons would translate into a remote learning environment.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is making its Epigeum training resources free and available during the Covid-19 pandemic. This training can assist with assisting in re-imagining your course for a remote environment with the Blending Learning training being the most pertinent.
Mary Kayler and Karen Weller
Research article focused on the development of discussions as an extension of instructional practices that supported dialogue, reflection, and self-assessment for the purpose of continuous professional improvement and facilitating independent learners. The research question that guided this study was, how can we develop self-monitoring and acceptance of online discussions so that students become independent learners?
