Learning & Teaching News
Find out what SFU faculty members, instructional staff and students are doing inside and outside the classroom.
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May 01, 2023
Originally published by SFU news. The fellowship, granted by the Society for Teaching and...
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November 30, 2022
SFU instructors are gaining new insights into how to support English as an Additional Language...
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September 21, 2022
Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Blended (B) might be a...
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August 30, 2022
Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Graduate students will be...
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May 18, 2022
Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Over the past year, 12...
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February 15, 2022
CEE wants to hear from you! We are in the first stages of planning our teaching development...
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February 15, 2022
Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. SFU graduate students...
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January 11, 2022
The Centre for Educational Excellence is inviting teaching assistants (TAs) from across the...
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November 25, 2021
This December, the Centre for Educational Excellence joins other members of the SFU community to...
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November 03, 2021
Recently, CEE has been investigating different chat tools for use in the classroom, which are...
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September 02, 2021
In Spring 2021, over 6,000 SFU undergraduates participated in SFU’s Learning Experiences Transition...
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August 10, 2021
To help instructors prepare for the return to in-person learning and teaching this fall, IT...
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March 23, 2021
One of the unsung—or undersung, if that term exists—heroes of remote instruction during the...
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December 03, 2020
The Centre for Educational Excellence joins other members of the SFU community to commemorate...
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November 26, 2020
From November 9 to 13, 2020, the Centre for Educational Excellence (CEE) hosted a number of online...
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October 13, 2020
Justin Lai is in his final semester as an undergraduate in the SFU Faculty of Education, after...
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September 28, 2020
Leyland Pitt is a marketing professor, the Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Chair of Business in SFU’s...
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September 18, 2020
Kevin Lam (senior lecturer, Biological Sciences), taught BISC 202: Genetics, a class of roughly 160...
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September 17, 2020
According to Sheri Fabian (university lecturer, Criminology, and director, Institute for the Study...
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September 16, 2020
University lecturer Sarah Johnson (Physics) taught two first-year physics courses in Spring 2020:...
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September 15, 2020
Nicky Didicher (university lecturer, English) was geared up to teach two courses in Summer 2020,...
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September 14, 2020
In Spring 2020, Mark Lechner (university lecturer and academic integrity advisor, Health Sciences)...
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September 13, 2020
In Spring 2020, Nienke van Houten (senior lecturer and director, undergraduate programs, Health...
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June 16, 2020
Some see the glass as half empty. Some see the glass as half full. Melek Ortabasi and Joel Heng...
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March 19, 2020
This story was first posted on the Teaching and Learning News blog on October 17, 2017. It is...
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March 13, 2020
The content of this FAQ has been integrated into the main SFU COVID-19 FAQ. Visit the SFU COVID-19...
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February 19, 2020
On January 20, 2020, Sheri Fabian (criminology), Danielle Murdoch (criminology), Jessica Hunter...
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February 19, 2020
Every other Monday afternoon during the spring and fall semesters, a cross-disciplinary group of...
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February 18, 2020
“IT WAS GREAT TO SEE [STUDENTS] ACTUALLY READ THE WHOLE SYLLABUS. AND BECAUSE NOT ALL THE...
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February 04, 2020
This story originally appeared on the Teaching and Learning News blog on August 16, 2018. Atiya...
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January 16, 2020
In Megan Barker’s Fall 2019 BPK 408W course on cell physiology, students worked together on...
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January 15, 2020
Nanda Dimitrov, former director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Western University in...
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January 15, 2020
By Centre for Educational Excellence staff
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January 14, 2020
The weather outside may have been frightful, but the learning and teaching workshops were...
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December 12, 2019
’Tis the season for holiday cheer—but also, exams! To boost student (and faculty and staff) spirits...
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December 12, 2019
In Fall 2018, David Maxwell had an unconventional idea for a new course. His decision to involve...
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December 11, 2019
6. TA/TM Stories: From Bored to Active With Guillermo Santa Cruz (educational psychology) “My...
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December 10, 2019
For many instructors, the Gradebook in SFU’s Canvas learning management system is a valued course...
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November 26, 2019
The 5th Annual DEMOfest, which took place on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at...
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November 21, 2019
How are SFU faculty members using technology-supported teaching approaches to improve student...
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November 20, 2019
Tell a lecture hall full of students that their grade is going to be based on a team assignment,...
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November 20, 2019
SFU’s Learning Space Design Committee is inviting members of the SFU community to channel their...
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November 19, 2019
A new podcast series produced by Jackie Amsden and Duane Woods of the Centre for Educational...
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October 17, 2019
“Math is math. What’s there to indigenize?” Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in the Department...
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October 16, 2019
This text is taken from a document prepared by Elizabeth Elle, vice-provost and associate...
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October 15, 2019
SFU’s faculty teaching fellows (FTFs) are continuing faculty members within each Faculty who...
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October 15, 2019
On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, members of SFU’s Centre for Educational Excellence (CEE) invited the...
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September 19, 2019
A new course model for online learning is being piloted this fall at SFU. Under this model, online...
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September 17, 2019
SFU's 34th Annual Fall TA/TM Day took place this year on an extraordinarily sunny September 6. The...
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August 22, 2019
In May 2019, Elizabeth Elle, associate vice-president, learning & teaching, announced that...
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August 13, 2019
Recent SFU graduate Jonathan Waldie has a message for instructors: that thing you’re doing in your...
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August 12, 2019
This time last year, criminology lecturer Danielle Murdoch had never even listened to a podcast....
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July 17, 2019
This time the sun couldn’t make it, but that didn’t matter. The 2019 President’s Employee BBQ on...
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July 15, 2019
The neat lines between various modes of learning are disappearing. Many courses mix online and...
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June 27, 2019
Originally posted on February 07, 2017 When Mirjam Gollmitzer applied to the...
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June 11, 2019
Students in Aude-Claire Fourot’s French-language POL 497 course don’t just read about research on...
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