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SALTISE Conference 2023 – Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals! SALTISE Conference June 12 and 13, 2023   Educators as Designers: A Practice-Research conversation In recent years, it has become increasingly evident that bringing together the many aspects of evidence-based instruction is very much a design process. Educators as designers emphasize this new role for instructors when they implement student-centred approaches, grounded…

CRISPESH Webinar with Dawson Faculty Laure Galipeau and Catherine Soleil

For More info, visit crispesh.ca or facebook.com/crispesh/

Performa Webinar: Helping Students Navigate Online Research

Performa Event | Where Did You Get This Helping Students Navigate Online Research With Sharon Coyle, Master Teacher Program (MTP), Performa faculty, University of Sherbrooke  Free Webinar Thursday, December 08 12:30 to 1:30 pm  This interactive webinar will provide strategies for Cegep teachers to support their students in navigating the internet. Have you ever asked your students any of the following questions? Did you notice the spelling mistakes in…

New Faculty Orientation – January 16, 2023

The winter New Faculty Orientation will be held in person on January 16, 2023 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm.    Dawson’s New Faculty Orientation is designed to introduce new faculty to information about college services and procedures, teaching at the college-level, and tips for engaging students.  The orientation includes asynchronous and synchronous components:  Welcome…

Submit Proposals for the Intercollegiate Ped Days!

It is time to submit your proposal to present at the annual Intercollegiate Ped Days! The conference will take place virtually, on January 10 and 11, 2023. The deadline for submissions is November 27th at 11:59pm Read more about this event by clicking on this document: Intercollegiate Ped Days 2023

The Biases within Co-Design – a SALTISE webinar – Friday Dec. 2

SALTISE | The Biases within Co-Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue with our Emerging Scholars Circle December 02, 2022 | 2:30 – 4:00 AM   Picking up from the 2022 SALTISE Conference and the insights from Dr. Gomez’s webinar on October 6th, our panel of emerging researchers reunite to critically explore their own experiences of collaborative design…

Read the Creative Collective for Change (CC4C) November Newsletter Here

The Creative Collective for Change seeks to bring students, teachers, administrators, ​activists, artists and curators ​together to work towards developing opportunities for addressing complex social issues in creative, constructive and critical ways. Our approach is interdisciplinary, inspired by artistic forms of activism and the theory and practice of nonviolence. Creative Collective for Change Website Latest…

SALTISE Webinar: Workshopping Principles of a Collaborative Design Partnerships Mode – November 11

About this event In the first of this 2-part webinar series, Dr. Kim Gomez discussed how working collaboratively in partnership can be enhanced through the use of co-design, an exciting and evidence-based approach to increasing the likelihood of successful adoption and implementation of innovative educational initiatives. Montreal-based examples of such initiatives include the Learning Communities…

Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

November 2, 2022 Faculty Focus Anna Conway, EdD Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. Sound familiar? Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term…