Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The following sessions take place on the Dalhousie campus in the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building. For more details on the conference location, please visit the Logistics and FAQ page.
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All times are in Atlantic Time.
8-8:30 am | Registration
Rowe Atrium
Coffee, tea, and light breakfast available
8:30-8:50 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Room 1028 (Potter Auditorium)
Dr. Suzanne Le-May Sheffield (Executive Director interim, Centre for Learning and Teaching)
Ann LaBillois (Dalhousie University’s Elder in Residence)
8:50-10:20 am | Keynote Speaker
Room 1028 (Potter Auditorium)
The Experimental Educator
Dr. Nadine de Gannes
Faculty Director of Ivey Business School’s Honours Business Administration (HBA) Program
Western University
10:20-10:40 am | Break
Coffee, tea, snacks available
10:40-11:40 am | Concurrent Session 1
Room 1007
Interactive workshop (60-minutes)
Presence in the Online World: Contemplative Pedagogical Practices for Reconnection in a Digital and Disconnected World
Dr. Leslie Ann Jeffrey (she/her), Dr. Margaret Anne Smith (she/her) (University of New Brunswick Saint John), Dr. Karen Robert (she/her), Dr. Monika Stelzl (she/her) (St. Thomas University)
Room 1009
Interactive workshop (60-minutes)
Transforming Education with AI: Empowering Creative and Adaptive Teaching & Learning
Tavis Bragg (he/him) (Acadia University)
Room 1011
Interactive workshop (60-minutes)
The Lasso Way: Fostering Micro Moments of Belonging in our Courses
Dr. Raghav V. Sampangi (he/him), Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier (she/her), Dr. Shazia Nawaz Awan (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
Room 1014
Interactive workshop (60-minutes)
Sustainability at the Sobey School of Business: Reimagining Curriculum Development and Delivery
Dr. Hao Lu (he/him), Bobbi Dunham (she/her), Dr. Margaret McKee (she/her), Dr. Miguel Morales (he/him), Aparajit Sridharan (he/him) (Saint Mary's University)
11:40 am-12:40 pm | Lunch
Coffee, tea, sandwiches, and salads available
Room 1016
Centre for Learning and Teaching Grants
Join us for a brief overview of teaching grants available to Dalhousie faculty
12:40-1:35 pm | Concurrent Session 2
Room 1007
Interactive workshop (50-minutes)
Foundation Courses for Student Retention
Dr. Elizabeth Wells (she/her) and Toni Roberts (any pronouns) (Mount Allison University)
Room 1009
Interactive workshop (50-minutes)
“Better than Reality?”: Optimism, Teaching, and Learning in Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Andrew Nurse (he/him), Dr. Courtney Mrazek (she/her), Dr. Beth Jewett (she/her), and Dr. James Hahn (they/them) (Mount Allison University)
Room 1011
Shared practices (25-minutes)
Assignment Ungrading as a License to Learn: Implementing Specifications Grading in the Undergraduate Web Development Classroom
Dr. Raghav V. Sampangi (he/him), Dr. Eric Poitras (he/him), Dr. Mayra D. Barrera Machuca (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
Shared practices (25-minutes)
Courageous Conversations: The Politics, Possibilities and Perils of Teaching about Death in the Classroom
Samantha Teichman (she/her) (Simon Fraser University)
Room 1014
Research presentation (25-minutes)
Embedded Entrepreneurship: Infusing Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes into Course Learning Experiences
Dr. Gregory Hadley (he/him) (St. Francis Xavier University)
Shared practices (25-minutes)
Incorporating Mi’kmaq Traditional Knowledge in the Biology Classroom, a Settler’s Journey Towards Decolonizing Spaces in Higher Education
Dr. Juan Carlos López (he/him) (Acadia University)
1:35-1:45 pm | Break
Coffee, tea, and snacks available
1:45-2:40 pm | Concurrent Session 3
Room 1007
Research presentation (25-minutes)
Exploring the Impact of AI Code Generation in Introductory Programming Instruction: Balancing Benefits and Pitfalls for Learners
Dr. Eric Poitras (he/him), Brent Crane (he/him), Angela Siegel (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
Change One Thing Challenge Grant Recipient (25-minutes)
Instructional Podcasting in Introductory Biology
Jennifer Van Dommelen (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
Room 1009
Place-based/land-based (50-minutes)
Walking with Dwayne Donald: Reading a Graduate English Course Through the Lenses of Fort Pedagogy, Indigenous Métissage, and the wâhkôhtowin Imagination
Deborah Schamuhn Kirk (she/her) (University of Alberta)
Room 1011
Interactive workshop (50-minutes)
Mind The Gap: Diagnostic Assessments to Feed Forward Learning
Stephanie Bernier (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
Room 1014
Interactive workshop (50-minutes)
Co-creating Learning Experiences- Engaging Student Voices Via Visual Preference Surveys (VPS)
Michelle Brown (she/her), Janis Cunningham (University of Calgary), Dr. John McArdle (Salem State University)
2:40-2:55 pm | Break
Coffee, teas, and snacks available
2:55-3:55 pm | Concurrent Session 4
Room 2029
A Conversation Circle on Decolonizing Curricula (60-minutes)*+
Rachelle McKay (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
*This session is limited to those who registered.
+This session contains a Smudge ceremony that could impact individuals sensitive to smoke and/or scents.
Room 1009
Interactive workshop (50-minutes)
An unexpected pathway to authenticity: How using AI to enhance evidence-based teaching can shift perspectives on assessment in a way that supports process-based, meaningful learning
Shafik Nanji (he/him), Matea Drljepan (she/her), Jeannie Cameron (she/her) (St. Francis Xavier University)
*Bring a laptop to engage in the workshop activities.
Room 1011
Place-based/land-based(60-minutes)
What do we want you know? Hearing the voices of post-secondary Indigenous students+
Kim Lickers (she/her) (Dalhousie University)
+This session contains a Smudge ceremony that could impact individuals sensitive to smoke and/or scents.
Room 1014
Interactive workshop (60-minutes)
Transforming Higher education with Radical Inclusion, Values and Engagement
Toni Roberts (any pronouns), Drew Inkpen (any pronouns), Andrew Nurse (he/him), Susie Andrews (any pronouns) (Mount Allison University)