STLHE 2013 - The Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference

Sustaining Learning, Integrity, and Community. Favoriser l'apprentissage, l'intégrité et la solidarité. 9:00am - 12:00pm

Disciplinary Portals and Wormholes: Identifying and working with threshold concepts in your class. Portails et tunnels disciplinaires  : définir les notions de seuil et s'en servir dans votre... 9:00am - 12:00pm

Learning for life: A workshop on writing creatively and creative writing./L'apprentissage pour la vie : un atelier sur la rédaction, l'écriture, la composition et la création littéraire. 9:00am - 12:00pm

How can we help ensure the sustainability of our educational programs? Quelles mesures pouvons-nous prendre pour aider à assurer la viabilité de nos programmes de formation? 9:00am - 12:00pm

Nutrition Break 10:30am - 11:00am

Teaching assistant competencies: a commitment to providing excellence. Compétences des aides enseignants  : la recherche constante de l'excellence. 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Creating a positive learning environment Créer et maintenir un contexte d'apprentissage positif 1:30pm - 4:30pm

A System of Tubes: Roll your own networked learning environment on a shoestring. Un réseau de tuyaux  : utiliser les moyens du bord pour lancer son propre contexte d'apprentissage connecté. 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Assessment in higher education: Reflecting on our practices L'évaluation dans le contexte d'études supérieures  : réfléchir à ses méthodes 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Nutrition Break 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Welcome Reception 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Conference Registration 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Paddling Through Time: Learning For Life in the Coastal Zone (this session involves kayaking and will take place in Louisbourg) 9:00am - 5:00pm

Are we ready? Tracking student a... 10:30am - 11:00am

Development and utilization of a... 11:00am - 11:30am

Evolution Illustrated: Using Art... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Chemistry Concepts from the Bott... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

A Sustainable Alternative to Usi... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

Inter-institutional Knowledge Mo... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Physics and Physicality – conver... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Building a community of learners in an introductory physical sci... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Do group exams support EAL stude... 10:30am - 11:00am

ESL Classrooms: Seamed or Seamle... 11:00am - 11:30am

Feedback for Sustaining Professi... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Institutional Strategies that Fo... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Got research? Considerations for... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

The Impact of Violence on Learni... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Adapting to New Teaching and Lea... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

3M National Student Fellows - Exploring the role of university s... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Integrating sustainable happines... 10:30am - 11:00am

Sustainable Happiness: A Novel Approach to Sustainability Educat... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Reflective Self-Study by Faculty... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Integration and Reflection of a... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

Evaluating the Impact of a Pre G... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

The Nurse Competence Self-Effica... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

The Role of Identifying and Deco... 10:30am - 11:00am

Accounting for Sustainability 11:00am - 11:30am

Business Students’ First Year Ex... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Student Entrepreneurship as a Vi... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Problem-based Learning in Economics: How the Learning is Experie... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Sustainable Leadership – an expe... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Using a Blended Learning Approac... 10:30am - 11:00am

'Faceless' Teaching and Learning... 11:00am - 11:30am

How does course delivery via a s... 11:30am - 12:00pm

e-Portfolios without Grades: A f... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Good to Great: The Need for Libr... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

An Innovative On-Line Method for... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Transitioning from WebCT Vista t... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

New way to use clickers to help... 10:30am - 11:00am

Mobile Devices and Contemplative Pedagogy: Exploring an Innovati... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Student Distractions in the Clas... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Sustaining the SoTL Soul 2:00pm - 3:00pm

The Impact of the Instructional Skills Workshop on faculty appro... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Sustaining African Canadian Cult... 10:30am - 11:00am

Evaluating Teaching Philosophy Statements 11:00am - 12:00pm

Beyond Observation: Perceptions... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Faculty Learning Communities - Feel Like Collaborating? Piloting... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Collegiality in the Corporate Un... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Educational Leadership in Teachi... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

The Canadian Teaching Commons: E... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Reorienting Educational Policy and Practice for ESD (Education f... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Fostering Well-Being in the Clas... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Engendering Values for 21st Century Citizenship ... or why the D... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

And now a word from our sponsor:... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Making teaching count in Canadian higher education: Are we there... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Fostering Inclusion in a Diverse... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Building LGBTQ Awareness and All... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

The Application of Historical Co... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Empowering teachers as change ag... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Eco citizenship in the curriculum, from reflection to action 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Life is a Game, Play Accordingly... 10:30am - 11:00am

Does This Make You Uncomfortable? 11:00am - 12:00pm

Learning Sustainable Life Skills... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Inside-Out 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Collaboration, Participation and... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Building Community in a Multicultural Classroom 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Teaching to learn, teaching for... 10:30am - 11:00am

L’immersion… et après ? 11:00am - 11:30am

In Search of the Comma 11:30am - 12:00pm

Weave Sustainability Into Your D... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

3M National Student Fellows - Students name, re-frame, and re-cl... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Using backward design to sustain... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Critically Exploring Aspects of... 10:30am - 11:00am

“Please Don’t Stop the Music”: Using Music in the Classroom to E... 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Arts as a Conduit for Learni... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Gallery Walk: Using Visual Images to Evoke a Deeper Understandin... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Using Push-Pull Theory to Suppor... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Rethinking small mixed farms: a project-based learning experienc... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

[Welcome to my Class]: Welcome to ENGL 2301, Literary Periods, 1... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Embedding academic literacy inst... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Learning Outcomes to Remix: Mobilizing Creativity as a Critical... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Teaching Methods for the International Classroom 4:00pm - 5:00pm

EDC Combined General Meeting 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Designing Teaching Teams with Un... 10:30am - 11:00am

The value of peer-mentorship in... 11:00am - 11:30am

Peer Mentorship: a new model to... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Expanding the Map – a New Explor... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

The disorienting dilemma: “teaching” critical reflection 2:00pm - 3:00pm

An emergent, integrated model of... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Reviewing the Literature Review:... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Opening Remarks 8:30am - 9:00am

Opening Plenary: Dr. Richard Gerver 9:00am - 10:00am

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm

CSEC AGM 2:00pm - 3:00pm

TAGSA AGM 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Conference Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm

Meet and Greet with Dr. Richard Gerver 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Nutrition Break 10:00am - 10:30am

Nutrition Break 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Artisans' Fair 10:00am - 3:00pm

STLHE AGM 12:30pm - 1:30pm

TLC AGM 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Christopher Knapper Lifetime Achievement Award & Alan Wright Interactive Lecture 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Step Dancing Lessons (Cape Breto... 10:00am - 10:30am

Step Dancing Lessons (Cape Breto... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Exhibitors' Tables 10:00am - 4:00pm

Live Local Music - Pit Lounge Open for STLHE Delegates 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Poster Set Up 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Poster - Sustainable Assessment of Injections Competencies: A Sharp Approach 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster Session & Reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Using Clinical Gait Case Studies to Enhance Learning in Biomechanics 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The Room of Horrors- An Interprofessional Adventure in Learning 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Teaching Improvement Project Systems (TIPS) for Residents: Program Evaluation of Workshop Effectiveness 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Virtual Microscopy in the Classroom; A Real Experience 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - An interesting exam question on global warming 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - We Are All Created Equal, But We Are Not The Same: discrete learning patterns among graduate students 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Learning Trajectories: using the metaphor of ‘windows’ in the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE) certifi... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Motivations for going to university: A qualitative study and class project 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The impact of participating in a first-year psychology class blog around the topic of sustainability on course content... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Exploring the Effectiveness of a Peer Mentorship Program Involving Third Year Nursing Students 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Writing towards a scientific identity: moving from prescriptive to reflective writing in undergraduate biology 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Measuring the Effect of a Peer Mentorship Program at Cape Breton University 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Thinking Critically - Developing sustainable thinking in students 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Establishing Roots of Professional Practice: Fostering Environmental Ethics through Group Discussion in the Teaching of... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Aligning the quality assurance process: Assessing the intended learning outcomes of a competency-based curricular frame... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Engage me with research: Creative course & assignment design in a large Biology course 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster -Collaboration As A Means For Improving Teaching And Learning In A First-Year Course 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Legal Literacy in Teacher Education Programs: Conceptualizing Relevance and Constructing Pedagogy 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Researcher as Participant: Autoethnography for teaching and learning 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The Success of Inquiry Guided Learning Projects Among Diverse Student Leaners 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Student Satisfaction of a Hybrid Learning Course 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Students' Experiences Learning Statistics 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The value of participating in an academic Community of Practice 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The idiodynamic Method: A dual purpose teaching and research tool 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - Mentoring for and by CBU Students: Perceptions and Possibilities 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster - The Impact of a Required Undergraduate Health and Wellness Course on Students’ Awareness and Knowledge of Physical Acti... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Learning Task Inventories (LTIs)... 8:30am - 9:00am

Mentoring Undergraduate Science Education Research – Building Li... 9:00am - 10:00am

The benefits of student generate... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Assignment Alignment: Sustaining... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Assessing Innovation in Higher E... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

The sustainability of collaborat... 8:30am - 9:00am

Easing Transitions from Program... 9:00am - 9:30am

Like fire to water – building br... 9:30am - 10:00am

From Classroom Seats to City Str... 10:30am - 11:00am

Academia, Activism, and the Anthropocene 11:00am - 12:00pm

Greening the Classroom: The Gras... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Personal learning environments (PLEs) as creative online spaces... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

The Development and Evaluation o... 8:30am - 9:00am

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Educ... 9:00am - 9:30am

Facilitating Client Centered Lea... 9:30am - 10:00am

Using Art Education Programs to... 10:30am - 11:00am

Flip the classroom: An investiga... 11:00am - 11:30am

Giving a good hint 11:30am - 12:00pm

Sustaining Environmental Resourc... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Learning Analytics and Learner P... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Not Just Engineering: Piloting a... 8:30am - 9:00am

A Postmodern Approach to Professional Identity Development with... 9:00am - 10:00am

Developing professionals in professional programs: can we do it? 11:00am - 12:00pm

Compelling and relevant Experien... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Inter-professionality for sustainability: Are collaborations acr... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

A student-led research symposium... 8:30am - 9:00am

Is there 'value' in 'production... 9:00am - 9:30am

Producing your own video for tea... 9:30am - 10:00am

Redefine Connection – And Make E... 10:30am - 11:00am

Approaches to Teaching, Learning and Institutional Leadership to... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Adapting to change: Sustainable... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Keeping up with the Jones: Sustaining and maintaining communitie... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Does pedagogical change really impact student learning? (Yes, it... 9:00am - 10:00am

Facilitating Communities of Prac... 10:30am - 11:00am

Meeting the Needs of Teachers - a Two-Way Street 11:00am - 12:00pm

Fostering teaching innovation at... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

(un)Learning How to Teach and Overcoming the Apprenticeship of O... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Learning from each other’s class... 9:00am - 9:30am

Faculty Development Sessions as... 9:30am - 10:00am

Linking Teaching and Learning De... 10:30am - 11:00am

Toward More Mindful Leadership 11:30am - 12:00pm

Collaborative Writing Using a Wi... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Measuring Impact: The 3M Fellowships. 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Student Stress and Help-Seeking... 8:30am - 9:00am

Community building in first year university leads to improved ou... 9:00am - 10:00am

Blended Learning for Sustainabil... 10:30am - 11:00am

Evaluating the Efficacy of the T... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Engaging Undergraduates in Socia... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

You Are N O W H E R E: A Pedagogy of Place 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Examining the Use of Lecture Cap... 8:30am - 9:00am

Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet: Merg... 9:00am - 9:30am

Giving students the opportunity... 11:00am - 11:30am

Classroom as Community: Problema... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Experimenting with Pedagogy of P... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Introduction of pedagogical elem... 8:30am - 9:00am

Problem based learning continues... 9:00am - 9:30am

Education for Sustainable Develo... 9:30am - 10:00am

The Designerly Way: Studio Appro... 10:30am - 11:00am

Maximizing Student Engagement in... 11:00am - 11:30am

Active learning - building and s... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Building Learning Communities Th... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Moving toward a Cooperative Classroom Community 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Investigating student learning u... 8:30am - 9:00am

Collaboration Strategies for the... 9:00am - 9:30am

Is Learner Autonomy Sustained in... 10:30am - 11:00am

Design with the Audience in Mind: Comparing the Educational Expe... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Student Perceptions of their Lea... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

From Interdisciplinary Teams to Interdisciplinary People 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Managing a Virtual Pandemic: Usi... 8:30am - 9:00am

Lessons Learned from McMaster's First Crack at a Sustainability... 9:00am - 10:00am

Max Gain or Less Pain: A Study i... 10:30am - 11:00am

Interdisciplinary Experiences Be... 11:00am - 11:30am

Education for cultural and envir... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Cultural Safety for Mi’kmaw stud... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Rethinking Delivery of Writing I... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Mobilizing Research Through Docu... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Transforming classroom education... 8:30am - 9:00am

Place based tourism curriculum:... 10:30am - 11:00am

Welcome to My Classroom: Why Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Matters 11:00am - 12:00pm

Hybrid PBL for Sustainability Ed... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Students: Welcome to my Class, Scientists: Welcome to the World! 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Learning for Academic Life: usin... 8:30am - 9:00am

Applying Constructivism and Just-in-Time Teaching to Address Lea... 9:00am - 10:00am

Narrative experience and the cha... 10:30am - 11:00am

Bespoke Writing Instruction: Can we tailor workshops to fit? 11:00am - 12:00pm

Reflective Journals as a Tool fo... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

How and why are guided student r... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Why is it so hard to do a good t... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

3M Student Plenary - 3M National Student Fellows Award Winners A... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm

SoTL AGM 8:15am - 9:00am

TAGSA Special Session 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Conference Registration 8:00am - 5:00pm

Nutrition Break 10:00am - 10:30am

Nutrition Break 2:30pm - 3:00pm

STLHE/SAPES Celebrating Our Achievements 6:00pm - 7:15pm

Banquet 7:15pm - 11:00pm

Banquet 7:15pm - 11:00pm

Alan Blizzard Award 10:30am - 12:00pm

Step Dancing Lessons (Cape Breto... 10:00am - 10:30am

Step Dancing Lessons (Cape Breto... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Exhibitors' Tables 10:00am - 4:00pm

Cracker Barrel Sessions 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Conference Registration 9:00am - 10:00am

Cape Breton Stepdancing - Cultural Experience 9:30am - 10:30am

Oral tradition and the Mi’kmaq Grand Council History- Cultural E... 9:30am - 10:30am

Gaelic Language - Cultural Experience 9:30am - 10:30am

Acadian Storytelling - Cultural Experience 9:30am - 10:30am

Nutrition Break 10:30am - 11:00am

Round Table Sessions 9:30am - 10:30am

Rex Murphy - Closing Plenary 11:00am - 12:00pm