Learning & Teaching News

Originally published by SFU news. The fellowship, granted by the Society for Teaching and...

SFU instructors are gaining new insights into how to support English as an Additional Language...

Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Blended (B) might be a...

Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Graduate students will be...

Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. Over the past year, 12...

CEE wants to hear from you! We are in the first stages of planning our teaching development...

Originally published on the AVP Learning & Teaching Stories website. SFU graduate students...

The Centre for Educational Excellence is inviting teaching assistants (TAs) from across the...

This December, the Centre for Educational Excellence joins other members of the SFU community to...

Recently, CEE has been investigating different chat tools for use in the classroom, which are...

In Spring 2021, over 6,000 SFU undergraduates participated in SFU’s Learning Experiences Transition...

To help instructors prepare for the return to in-person learning and teaching this fall, IT...

One of the unsung—or undersung, if that term exists—heroes of remote instruction during the...

The Centre for Educational Excellence joins other members of the SFU community to commemorate...

From November 9 to 13, 2020, the Centre for Educational Excellence (CEE) hosted a number of online...

Justin Lai is in his final semester as an undergraduate in the SFU Faculty of Education, after...

Leyland Pitt is a marketing professor, the Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Chair of Business in SFU’s...

Kevin Lam (senior lecturer, Biological Sciences), taught BISC 202: Genetics, a class of roughly 160...

According to Sheri Fabian (university lecturer, Criminology, and director, Institute for the Study...

University lecturer Sarah Johnson (Physics) taught two first-year physics courses in Spring 2020:...

Nicky Didicher (university lecturer, English) was geared up to teach two courses in Summer 2020,...

In Spring 2020, Mark Lechner (university lecturer and academic integrity advisor, Health Sciences)...

In Spring 2020, Nienke van Houten (senior lecturer and director, undergraduate programs, Health...

Some see the glass as half empty. Some see the glass as half full. Melek Ortabasi and Joel Heng...

This story was first posted on the Teaching and Learning News blog on October 17, 2017. It is...

The content of this FAQ has been integrated into the main SFU COVID-19 FAQ. Visit the SFU COVID-19...

On January 20, 2020, Sheri Fabian (criminology), Danielle Murdoch (criminology), Jessica Hunter...

Every other Monday afternoon during the spring and fall semesters, a cross-disciplinary group of...

“IT WAS GREAT TO SEE [STUDENTS] ACTUALLY READ THE WHOLE SYLLABUS. AND BECAUSE NOT ALL THE...

This story originally appeared on the Teaching and Learning News blog on August 16, 2018. Atiya...

In Megan Barker’s Fall 2019 BPK 408W course on cell physiology, students worked together on...

Nanda Dimitrov, former director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Western University in...

By Centre for Educational Excellence staff

The weather outside may have been frightful, but the learning and teaching workshops were...

’Tis the season for holiday cheer—but also, exams! To boost student (and faculty and staff) spirits...

In Fall 2018, David Maxwell had an unconventional idea for a new course. His decision to involve...

6. TA/TM Stories: From Bored to Active With Guillermo Santa Cruz (educational psychology) “My...

For many instructors, the Gradebook in SFU’s Canvas learning management system is a valued course...

The 5th Annual DEMOfest, which took place on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at...

How are SFU faculty members using technology-supported teaching approaches to improve student...

Tell a lecture hall full of students that their grade is going to be based on a team assignment,...

SFU’s Learning Space Design Committee is inviting members of the SFU community to channel their...

A new podcast series produced by Jackie Amsden and Duane Woods of the Centre for Educational...

“Math is math. What’s there to indigenize?”  Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in the Department...

This text is taken from a document prepared by Elizabeth Elle, vice-provost and associate...

SFU’s faculty teaching fellows (FTFs) are continuing faculty members within each Faculty who...

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, members of SFU’s Centre for Educational Excellence (CEE) invited the...

A new course model for online learning is being piloted this fall at SFU. Under this model, online...

SFU's 34th Annual Fall TA/TM Day took place this year on an extraordinarily sunny September 6. The...

In May 2019, Elizabeth Elle, associate vice-president, learning & teaching, announced that...

Recent SFU graduate Jonathan Waldie has a message for instructors: that thing you’re doing in your...

This time last year, criminology lecturer Danielle Murdoch had never even listened to a podcast....

This time the sun couldn’t make it, but that didn’t matter. The 2019 President’s Employee BBQ on...

The neat lines between various modes of learning are disappearing. Many courses mix online and...

Originally posted on February 07, 2017 When Mirjam Gollmitzer applied to the...

Students in Aude-Claire Fourot’s French-language POL 497 course don’t just read about research on...