Resources

The Centre for Learning and Teaching’s newsletter FOCUS on University Teaching and Learning is published online. Prior to 2020, each newsletter was thematically focused and featured articles contributed by Dalhousie colleagues.

FOCUS is now exclusively available online.

All CLT Library assets are available for loan. Academic staff and graduate students/teaching assistants are welcome Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm to browse and borrow, through Dalhouise Libraries.

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Resources Guide

This guide is a collection of resources related to teaching and learning the higher education. All of the resources in this guide are available to faculty and students at Dalhousie University, and many are completely open access. Most of the print resources listed on this guide are available in the Centre for Learning & Teaching book collection, which is located on the first floor of the Killam Library.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Resource Guide

This guide includes publications (books, journals, articles) and other resources related to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

In the Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Ed Classroom resource, you will find information you need to understand the basics of A.I. technologies, to talk with your students about artificial intelligence, and to design assessments with A.I. in mind.

Collaborative Online International Learning is an innovative approach of teaching to fostering global competence through development of an intercultural learning environment that connects institutions, courses, instructors, and students in different geographic locations across the world. 

Web Resources

• Vancouver Island University
• University of Saskatchewan
• State University of New York (SUNY)
• Sinclair College, Ohio

Articles

Amaral, Dr. Genevieve and McLay, Kelly, "Developing Global Education Opportunities at Sheridan College Using COIL (Collaborative (Collaborative Online International Learning)" (2021). COIL Resources and Reports. 2. https://source.sheridancollege.ca/coil_resources/2

Inada, Y. (2022). Collaborative Online International Learning Classes to Enhance Co-Creation in Canada and Japan. Journal of Education and Learning, 11(4), 15-30. URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v11n4p15

The Online Teaching website serves as an information hub for course instructors seeking resources and supports for online and blended teaching.

Final reports 

• Student and Faculty Use and Perceptions of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University (2021-2022)
• Faculty and Student Perceptions of Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning at Dalhousie University (2017-2018)
• Survey of Faculty Use of Online Technologies  (2013)
• Survey of Student Use of Online Technologies (2013)

The Simulation and Student Learning website is designed as an online resource for faculty, educational developers and graduate students interested in simulation based learning.

Teaching Dossiers are a significant component of tenure and promotion and re-appointment files at Dalhousie. Teaching Philosophy Statements or Statements of Teaching Interest are increasingly requested for job applications. Whether you are a faculty member, post-doctoral fellow or graduate student, the ability to articulate your approaches to teaching and to ensure alignment of your ideas across your Dossier will enable you to prepare a Teaching Dossier for evaluative purposes. Creating a Dossier also provides you with an opportunity to enhance student learning by encouraging you to reflect upon your teaching philosophy and to ensure that it is connected to the approaches, activities and assessments you plan for your courses.

Support

The Centre for Learning and Teaching offers two annual Teaching Dossier workshops: one for graduate students in September and one for faculty members in May.  We also provide individual consultations on an on-going basis for faculty, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students, who would like to discuss or receive feedback on their Teaching Dossiers or teaching philosophy statements.

Resources

• The Step-by-Step Creation of a Teaching Dossier
• The Teaching Dossier Template 

Teaching first-year students can be both challenging and rewarding.  This website provides evidence-based advice, ideas and resources to assist you in easing your students’ transition to university teaching and learning.   It also provides an opportunity for you to hear from first-year instructors at Dalhousie who are sharing their own experiences of teaching in first-year classes, highlighting how they support students’ academic success.

Teaching First-year Students website

Social Media Guidelines for Learning & Teaching and Researchers

Faculty Strategies for Addressing Missed or Late Academic Requirements [PDF - 336 KB]

Dalhousie subscribes to several online journals that focus on teaching and learning in higher education. The journals listed below are a few of the ones Dalhousie has bought subscriptions for. More electronic journals can be found on the University Libraries website.

• EDUCAUSE Review
• New Directions in Teaching and Learning
• New Directions in Higher Education
• International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• MountainRise: a journal on the scholarship of teaching and learning
• The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning: a refereed e-journal to advance research, theory, and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide
• Innovate: a journal of online education

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Did you know that faculty, staff and graduate students can subscribe to University Affairs magazine at no charge? University Affairs is the most trusted source of news, information and opinion about higher education in Canada. Covering the university scene for over 50 years, University Affairs is also the country’s largest source of career advertising aimed at the academic community.

To get your free subscription (a $39 value), simply subscribe by visiting universityaffairs.ca. The only requirement is that a university campus address be used for the subscription. While on the website, you can also check out the Career Advice section which offers a wealth of information aimed at graduate students and faculty. You can also sign up for job e-mail alerts, listen to podcasts or view videos, like those from the Career Corner workshops given at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Teaching Innovation Projects (TIPS) Journal is an open-access journal that publishes articles describing the scholarly and pedagogical foundations for workshops about a variety of timely educational topics and include a comprehensive list of learning outcomes, an annotated review of relevant literature, and a detailed breakdown of potential learning activities among other elements.

Solve a Teaching Problem. 

Centre for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University

Booking the B400 Classroom

To book the B400 classroom, please contact The Centre for Learning and Teaching at 902-494-1622 or clt@dal.ca.

Equipment

All groups have access to the following in-house equipment:

• Movable tables and chairs
• Desktop computer (1)
• Built-in projector
• Built-in speakers
• White boards
• Video-Conference Unit

Visit the B400 Classroom website for B400 rules and regulations.