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Contributor(s): Ana Sepulveda; Ranee Drader; Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2014
Description: These two scholarship of teaching and learning undergraduate student co-investigators talk about why they got involved in SoTL research, describe the projects they've worked on and what they've learned, and share their perspectives on how faculty and students can work together toward improving student learning. Some key themes from their talk include how they now have a better understanding of what research is and what universities do, how much they were inspired and excited by doing the research and gained confidence by being able to add value to a research project, and also how it taught them life skills such as developing time management skills, learning that setbacks are okay, and...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Date issued: 2015
Description: 6th Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Banff, Alberta Canada November 12 - 14, 2015. This gathering of teacher/scholars is a practitioner’s conference dedicated to developing teaching and learning research, sharing initial findings, going public with results of completed projects, and building an extended scholarly community. In its 6th year, the conference annually draws together faculty, students, educational developers, and administrators interested in the systematic inquiry into teaching and learning. This year's conference featured four pre-conference workshops, a day and a half of concurrent sessions, a poster session, reception, and two plenary keynote...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Lynne Lafave; Alexis Webster
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Children’s eating and activity patterns are strongly influenced by early childhood social, cultural, and physical environments surrounding the eating and activity experience. The creating healthy eating environments in childcare (CHEERS) survey is a 59 item audit tool that can be self-administered to measure gaps, weaknesses, and strengths of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centre-based nutrition and physical activity environment. It has undergone content validation and reliability testing but has yet to undergo concurrent validation. The mindful eating questionnaire (MEQ) provides a non-judgemental awareness of physical and emotional sensations with eating. CHEERS and MEQ...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): Conferences, Symposia, & Events

Contributor(s): Lynne Lafave; Sonya L. Jakubec; Judy Gleeson
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Food literacy, broadly defined as the ability to plan, select, prepare, and eat foods that support health. Key themes of food literacy include skills and behaviours, food/health choices, culture, knowledge, emotions, and food systems. Development of these components begins in early childhood through an interplay of modeling and exposure in the home environment. Structurally vulnerable families may experience poorer nutrition profiles which may be a result of various factors including reduced food literacy. The objective of this study was to explore the impact of a 12-week food literacy program in a preschool-parent population.
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): Conferences, Symposia, & Events

Contributor(s): Christiansen, Erik G.; McNally, Michael B.
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: While open licensing is a foundational aspect of open educational resources, there are several "factors" that educators must use to achieve openness in their course design. This study builds on the previous work of the authors' conceptual framework, titled "Open Enough?," for evaluating the level of openness within Open CourseWare (OCW) (McNally & Christiansen, 2019). In the previous work, the authors proposed eight factors that educators should consider when undertaking OCW development. The authors also argued that these eight factors could be used to assess the openness of existing OCW. The goal of this pilot study was to answer the following question: 1) Is the "Open Enough" framework...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Christiansen, Erik G.; McNally, Michael B.
Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Although open licensing is a necessary component of open educational resources, the overall openness of a resource is determined by several factors beyond licensing. This paper examines the applicability of the “Open Enough” framework (McNally & Christiansen, 2019) for examining the openness of existing Open CourseWare (OCW). This previously published conceptual framework proposed eight factors that educators should consider when creating a new, or adopting an existing, open course. These factors include Copyright/Open Licensing Frameworks, Accessibility/Usability Formatting, Language, Support Costs, Assessment, Digital Distribution, File Format, and Cultural Considerations. In this study...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2005
Description: Poster and Handout for Association of College & Research Libraries Conference.
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan; Michelle Yeo; Genevieve Currie; David Pace; Brett McCollum; Janice Miller-Young
Date issued: 2016
Description: Scholars of teaching and learning around the world and in many disciplines have been using the Decoding the Disciplines process to make explicit the mental operations that students must master to succeed. Teachers, as experts in their disciplines, often hold this knowledge in tacit and implicit ways that are not easily accessible to novices, resulting in "bottlenecks" to learning. A key step towards addressing bottlenecks is a Decoding interview in which teachers uncover and unpack crucial thinking with the help of two interviewers outside their field. The interview can yield important insights for teachers, generate data for SoTL work, and also play an important role in developing the...
Type: conference publication
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

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