Our mission is to foster and support the development of outstanding teaching at Concordia with the overall goal of enhancing the quality of student learning and academic success.Through our services and resources we are building a community of educators at Concordia who reflect on their teaching practice and share their insights with others.
The CTLS offers a broad range of services to full-time and part-time faculty and teaching assistants including workshops, consultations and orientations. Professional development services at a personal and departmental level are also available.
To help support faculty in their teaching, the CTLS produces and maintains key resources which are updated regularly to ensure access to timely and effective ideas and solutions. Whether you're interested in designing effective courses and assessments, interpreting course evaluations, or discovering strategies for teaching with technology the Centre's latest resources are available for fast and easy reference.
The scholarship of teaching continues to gain momentum in higher education and with it comes an ever growing number of great teachers. To celebrate our most skilled and distingushed teachers at Concordia the CTLS has started capturing their views on teaching. Find out what it takes to win a teaching award and how these teachers are contributing to student success.
If you missed Dr. Mark Morton's walkthrough lecture, Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning you can still catch the screencast here. Learn all about the latest advancements in technology and how new trends in social media are changing the way faculty and students engage in research, teaching and learning.
Don't miss out on our huge offering of fall workshops. Looking for the latest techniques to foster critical thinking or need a few pointers for polishing your presentation skills in the classroom? Visit our workshops and register today to get started.
The CTLS will be making a range of teaching and learning articles available through our digital newsletter service as well as our website. Our aim is to provide Concordia faculty rapid access to teaching and learning articles that are brief, accessible and most importantly always relevant to the improvement of teaching in higher education.
Read the latest edition: Student Motivation: Problem Solved.
Developing an understanding of the different theories for learning has led to innovative ways of teaching practices and experiments. In this section you'll find a few examples of these theories and how they're being used to shape the future of Higher Education.
Now you can learn to use Moodle for teaching anytime you want, using our screencast quick-tips.
Designer Andrew Dolan walks you through basic design principles for creating classroom presentations that keep students turned on, instead of tuned out.
Dr. Mark Morton examines the latest advances in digital media and the notion of information overload in teaching and learning. How much is too much when it comes to using technology and what can be done to stay on top of it all.
What on earth is a blog? Can blogs be used effectively in teaching and learning in higher education?
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