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Thanks to everyone who attended ACURIT 2023. Please check back for updates about the 2024 conference in early 2024.
TRADITIONS RE-IMAGINED:
LEARNING, UNLEARNING, AND RELEARNING TEACHING May 4 - 5, 2023
How can we reinvent our teaching methods to engage students? What habits prevent our students from investing in their own learning? What do we keep, and what do we discard, as we tidy up our teaching? How can we utilize emerging technologies (ChatGPT, AI) to improve our teaching practices and enhance student engagement? How can we make our teaching practices more inclusive?
Join us for this year’s conference, in tandem with the University of Alberta Festival of Teaching, for Traditions Re-imagined: Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning Teaching. There is much that we do as instructors that is just ‘what we have always done’ - but how can we envision alternative outcomes and break the habits and status quo in our classes and pedagogy? Topics may include, but are not limited to: ways in which you are Indigenizing or decolonizing your classroom activities and assignments, how have students led you to reconsider your methods, reflective practices for students and teachers that extend beyond the traditional reflection assignment, what you are keeping from your experience with the ‘pandemic pivot’, what have you unlearned in your classrooms and never want to go back to, how you are navigating ChatGPT and other AI in your classroom? We want to share in your discoveries, your challenges, and the excitement of trying something new.
Location
The conference will be held online and at the University of Alberta Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta (Map of location), 90km southeast of Edmonton. We will be meeting in the Roger Epp Room (2-004) in the Augustana Forum (Detailed campus map).
Getting to Camrose
The conference is being held at:
University of Alberta Augustana Campus 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta, Canada, T4V 2R3. (Map of location)
Staying in Camrose
There are several options for staying in Camrose. Some of the most popular hotels are: Norseman Inn and Ramada Inn Complete list and location of all accommodations in Camrose.
Details
TRADITIONS RE-IMAGINED:
LEARNING, UNLEARNING, AND RELEARNING TEACHING May 4 - 5 , 2023
Registration Information
Registration fee: $50 (free for Augustana students and online participants)
Questions?
Questions can be directed to acurit@ualberta.ca.
About ACURIT
ACURIT is a small, collegial international conference in Camrose, AB (one hour southeast of Edmonton). The conference provides a place for people engaged in undergraduate education to meet, learn, and discuss ways to improve teaching and the student experience. There are no concurrent sessions and registrations are limited in order to preserve the quality of the experience. This year we have added poster, cracker barrel, and teaching tricks in 300 seconds sessions to allow presenters to demonstrate and attendees to experience first-hand our conference theme of "Learning by Doing".