2019
New Chairholder in University Teaching Seeks to Optimize the Development of Critical Thinking Across the uOttawa Campus
The Office of the Vice-Provost, Academic Affairs, and The Teaching and Learning Support Service (TLSS) are proud to announce the recipient of the Chair in University Teaching (2019-2022), Professor Judy King of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The Project – Critical Thinking in an Era of (mis) Information
As part of the 3-year Chairship appointment, Professor King will lead this project collaboratively with the support of an interdisciplinary advisory committee consisting of representatives from different faculties, the library, the SASS, the TLSS and graduate and undergraduate students. The different theoretical and practical perspectives of critical thinking offered by this committee will help guide a pan-institutional scan of practices and the development and implementation of teaching and learning resources.
The project will be guided by the following research questions:
- Currently, within the University of Ottawa, how are students particularly well helped to develop critical thinking?
- How can we use knowledge from these successful experiences to enhance critical thinking across the university?
A presentation on Professor King’s project will take place on 2018, August 15th at 2:15 pm at the faculty of Social Sciences, room 4007 as part of the closing reception of the Orientation Program for New Professors. All members of the University community are welcome to attend.
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2018
New Chair in University Teaching Seeks to Map Internationalization Across the uOttawa Campus
The Teaching and Learning Support Service (TLSS) is proud to announce Professor Rebecca Tiessen as the Chair in University Teaching (2018-2021) with Professors Nadia Abu-Zahra and Emily Wills as co-applicants.
The Project – Internationalizing the uOttawa Campus: A Mapping and Mobilization Exercise
As part of the 3-year Chairship appointment, Professors Tiessen, Abu-Zahra, and Wills of the Faculty of Social Sciences will collaborate on this project with the support of the International Office, the Michaëlle Jean Centre for Global and Community Engagement, and a host of student groups. The project will focus on improving faculty engagement in internationalization and intensify efforts to internationalize curriculum which will help to make uOttawa a world-class university dedicated to excellence in intercultural learning.
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2017
New Chairholder in University Teaching Seeks to Enhance Experiential and Work-Integrated Learning at uOttawa
The Teaching and Learning Support Service (TLSS) is proud to announce the recipient of the 6th Chair in University Teaching, Dr. Eileen O’Connor of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The Project – Building Effective Practices in Work-Integrated Learning at uOttawa
As part of the 3-year appointment, Eileen will be leading a project on building effective practices in experiential and work-integrated learning (WIL) at uOttawa.
Building on previous collaborative work to develop a WIL toolkit for Ontario Universities and Colleges (2016), this project will focus on adapting the toolkit template by consolidating and disseminating knowledge on effective practices within our wide range of work-integrated learning offered through programs, research and innovation at uOttawa.
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2016
Alison Flynn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Project description:
University students have to learn in many different formats (e.g., lecture, online, blended, flipped, labs) and manage many different courses and life expectations (e.g., part-time jobs, clubs, sports, volunteer work, family). To be successful, students need to know and continually monitor their learning plus develop autonomy and professional capacity skills; these are two Undergraduate Degree Level Expectations (UDLEs 5 and 6) and are components of self-regulated learning (SRL). Currently, few programs, courses, and online resources address SRL skills. In this project, Alison Flynn will develop (1) an annual workshop will help students learn domain general SRL skills, (2) modules that will target domain-specific SRL skills (i.e., SRL skills that are specific to a course or discipline), and (3) a practical participatory evaluation of the first two initiatives. You can read more and find updates here: flynnresearchgroup.com/chair/
To view Dr. Flynn’s final project report, please click here.
2014
Maurice Taylor
Faculty of Education
Project description:
One of the recommendations from a recent University of Ottawa report suggests that our university adopts blended learning at a large scale. This type of instructional model blends online and in-class learning. To help move this initiative forward, Maurice Taylor, from the Faculty of Education will be conducting a three-year study that investigates the current conditions across different faculties toward large scale adoption and the best practices in blended learning here at the university and other leading provincial universities. Results will help to determine action plans and the tools aimed at transforming instructional practices and teaching innovation.
2013
Jenepher Lennox-Terrion
Department of Communication
Faculty of Arts
Project description:
Given the place of large classes in today's universities, understanding how they can be best delivered is significant. The development of positive relationships between instructor and students through the professor's verbal and nonverbal communication, or teacher immediacy, is important to learning. Therefore, this study will assess the degree to which highly rated professors of large classes demonstrate teacher immediacy and catalog how they do it. The study will produce guidelines for teaching large classes focused specifically on building teacher immediacy and, ultimately, positive classroom relationships.
2012
Jacqueline Carnegie
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Project description
Undergraduate students explore pathophysiology beginning with the disease rather than the patient. This project involves the creation of learning modules, each with a video to acquaint students with a patient (student actors). The goals are to facilitate learning by personalizing the study of diseases, promoting learning through application, and encouraging patient-oriented storage of disease-related information in long-term memory.
Scott Findlay
Department of Biology
Faculty of Science
Project description:
The project on synthetic science will provide the opportunity for undergraduate students to contribute and actually do scientific research by extracting information from published studies using validated protocols, populating electronic databases with these data, and using the resulting synthesized data to test scientific hypotheses. This approach overcomes the logistical barriers associated with limited laboratory time and facilities, creating the potential to train students to think like scientists by doing actual science.