CTL staff are updating online information and providing consultations and office hours as necessary to answer instructors' pedagogical questions. Need help?
- Review these:
- Moving online (pedagogical & technological guidance: ctl.guide/disruption)
- Quick help (ed tech how-tos: ctl.guide/quickhelp)
- Alternatives to Final Exams (Google Doc)
- Recordings of recent CTL webinars are available:
• Strategies for your Zoom live online lecture
• How to create a remote teaching and learning community - Complete a CTL consultation request
2020-2021 McCalla Professorships
- Deadline for Small Faculties* - Monday, February 3, 2020
*The Small Faculties group has been allocated three (3) McCalla Professorships for 2020-2021 - Deadline for Large Faculties** - Monday, March 2, 2020
- **The Large Faculties are responsible for their own adjudication processes. Check Faculty websites for more information and internal deadlines
Submission Procedure
For details on the submission process, see: McCalla Professorships (CTL website). Note, the UAPPOL procedure* and the administrative details posted on the CTL website are intended to be used together when compiling a nomination for this award.
Selection Criteria
The following criteria will be used when selecting eligible applicants:
- Evidence of a career commitment to teaching excellence, integrating research and teaching and educational leadership
- Innovation in the project or planned activities
- Impact of the project or planned activities on student learning and alignment with For the Public Good
** March 19, 2020 Update - TLEF PD applications have been suspended until further notice. **
[Nov 28, 2019] The University of Alberta will be hosting a 1-day OER Summit on May 20, 2020. click here.
[Nov 1, 2019] Three new OER Projects have been awarded funding: AUART 225, EDPU 410, and LIS 5XX. For more information on each of these projects and other funded OER projects, click here.
[May 1, 2019] Five courses have been awarded project funding to transition course materials to OER (open educational resources) in the 2019/20 academic year. Congratulations to EAS 233 (Geological Structures), PSYCO 403 Hormones and Behaviour, PSYCO 403 Psychopharmacology, and GERM 111 and 112 (Beginners German I and II). For more information about current and past OER projects, click here.
What is an OER (open educational resource)? Learn more here.
