2024 Festival of Teaching and Learning

The Festival of Teaching and Learning (FoTL) is a signature event hosted each spring by the Centre for Teaching and Learning. FoTL brings together people across the University of Alberta’s teaching and learning communities for the professional development of teaching praxis (practice and theory). The festival will provide an opportunity for the U of A community to share, demonstrate, explore, and debate diverse approaches to the craft and practice of teaching with the goal of enhancing the teaching and learning environment across the institution.

The 2024 Festival of Teaching and Learning will be held in a hybrid (blended) format to offer in-person and online learning and discussion, as well as multimodal opportunities to share, engage, and connect.

Instructors, teaching assistants, students, librarians, postdoctoral fellows, support staff and administrators from all disciplines and career points with an interest in teaching and learning are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

View the complete schedule of spark talks, workshops, panel discussions and more that align with the theme: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Intersectional Equity and Connection.

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May 7 (9 a.m. - 3 p.m.): In person at Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) 2-190, 2-150, 2-140, 2-121

• Opening Keynote—Beyond accessibility checklists: Designing the future
• Spark Talk—Creating and sustaining communities of practice
• Spark Talk—Adventures in experiential learning: Using AI to create interactive 'choose your own adventure' case studies
• Spark Talk—Student agency and perspectives in assignments for linguistics courses
• Workshop—It's how we ask: The power of powerful open questions Lisa Lozanski
• Panel—Equitable pathways to experiential learning: What gets in the way of students learning by doing?
• Workshop—Wellness in and out of the classroom through partnership
• Workshop—Where we meet: How to frame and align expectations
• Workshop—William C. Wonders map collection engagement
• Panel—What does great university teaching look like? Lessons from a pedagogical enhancement partnership between faculties

May 8 (9 a.m. - 3 p.m.): Online via Zoom

• CYOA—Reimagining your course for online
• CYOA—Evaluating engagement, learning and teaching in the hybrid classroom environment
• Spark Talk—ChatGPT-proofing assessments
• Workshop—Collaborative Generative AI maker-Space: Past and future trajectories
• Interactive Paper—Fostering east-west engagement: Integrating the Dao De Jing and Macbeth into an intercultural curriculum
• Panel—Exploring “Native Speakerness” ideologies and EDIA through instructors’ lived experiences
• Spark Talk—Report from the frontlines: Generative AI in our Writing Studies classrooms
• CYOA—Interactive exploration of EDI and UDL
• CYOA—The field of rabbit holes: Teaching and learning with ADHD

May 9 (9 a.m. - 2 p.m.): Online via Zoom

• Panel—Interdisciplinary learning for pedagogical change and equity praxis
• CYOA—Whiteboard animation for dental education
• CYOA—Intersectionally-marginalized and invisibilized students: Sustaining collaborations
• CYOA—Student user experience: Are we doing it wrong?
• CYOA—Course quality checklist: A simple, self-guided tool to elevate your online course
• Closing Keynote—Creating cultures of care and connection: Lessons from Indigenizing climate change education (Western University)

May 10 (9 - 10:30 a.m.): Hybrid - Post-FoTL workshop
Online or at Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) 2-131

• Facilitating messy or disruptive conversations in the classroom