The Teaching Commons Journal Club Blog: March 2018 Alice Kim, Teaching Commons During our March Journal Club meeting, we discussed “The effects of attendance on academic performance: panel data evidence for introductory microeconomics” (http://teachingcommons.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Effects-of-Attendance-on-Academic-Performance.pdf). The study was an investigation on the impact of attendance on students’ learning, and attepted to control for unobservable factors that […]
Teaching with the Case Study Method Barbara Kerr, Teaching Commons Why would you want to teach using the case study method? In my opinion, there are many reasons. For example, in a 2016 document issued by the Government of Ontario that addresses defining 21st century competencies (http://www.edugains.ca/resources21CL/21stCenturyLearning/21CL_21stCenturyCompetencies.pdf), the authors stress the need to “prepare students to […]
The top 6 things we learned about Creative Commons (CC) Licensing Natasha May and Mandy Frake Mistak, Teaching Commons. Our educational developer community often works in collaboration – with other developers, faculty members, students, staff, and administration. We share resources, evidence-based practices, strategies, and stories to help each other. Recently, the Teaching Commons received an […]
What’s in a Name? – Teaching Commons Journal Club – February Meeting Natasha May, Teaching Commons Did you know that the Teaching Commons celebrated its 5th anniversary in 2017 and this May will be the 6th Teaching in Focus (TiF) Conference? Do you know where the Teaching Commons got its name? To mark the Teaching Commons’ […]
Information Literacy and Fake News The York University Libraries’ Teaching, Learning, and Research Committee (TLRC) It is impossible to avoid the term fake news these days. Fast news cycles and even faster social media channels enable the spread of misinformation. To add to this, news articles and images that imitate legitimate sources of information or […]
What’s in a Name? Course Design Bootcamps and the Need for a Non-Violent Language of Pedagogy Markus Reisenleitner, Department of Humanities Figure 1: U.S. Army recruits practice bayonet fighting skills at Fort Benning, Georgia in March 2004. Photo: U.S. Army PFC David Foley. Public Domain. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BasicCombatTraining.jpg Figure 2: Officer Candidate School aboard Marine Corps […]
Connecting Students who you Feel Might Benefit by Connecting with Student Accessibility Services Raymond Peart, ASD Coordinator (Raymond Peart): rpeart@yorku.ca As faculty at York University, you observe significant differences in development, ability, presentation of skills, social interaction, communication and behaviour among students within your classroom. Your experience has enabled you to develop a clear perspective on […]
January 2018 Journal Club Barbara Kerr, Teaching Commons The Teaching Commons hosted the January meeting of the Journal Club on January 16, 2018 to discuss a topic that is on the minds of many York instructors, and is in fact the theme of this year’s Teaching in Focus (TIF) conference – student engagement. The article […]
Teaching Commons Journal Club – November meeting Mandy Frake Mistak, Teaching Commons The Teaching Commons hosted a November meeting of the monthly Journal Club where we discussed an article entitled Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: the Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education(Whitchurch, 2008). Despite its British context, Journal Club attendees dialogued at length […]
Is anyone else worried about the number of students purchasing essays through a third party? Susan Murtha, Faculty of Health I’m on sabbatical this year until July and I am really not supposed to be worried about academic honesty. But I am. Mainly because I have started to build a 4th year course with a writing […]