The ELATE (Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Engineering) team is excited to be hosting its Annual Teaching and Learning Conference in May 2022. In the keynote and workshop, participants will learn about research-based teaching strategies to improve student learning, including retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and metacognition. Emphasis will be placed on how to incorporate these […]
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During this first ever Performa Event, we will look at some of the questions we have about creating meaningful educational experiences.
Contact North, the Ontario's community-based bilingual distance education and training network, is proposing a webinar on Universal Design of Learning. As technology-mediated learning becomes part of the new normal across college and university curricula, it’s important to interact with students in a way that supports their continued learning, shows compassion and flexibility for varied circumstances, […]
There are many ways to develop your teaching competencies, but there is also the Performa way! Performa's Master Teacher Program, or the MTP as it is called, is a program designed by college teachers, for college teachers and delivered by college teachers. Find out how you could benefit from this unique program by attending our […]
Co-design is an exciting and evidence-based approach to increasing the likelihood of successful adoption and implementation. It is the process of collaboration between education stakeholders with varied expertise, to design curriculum, processes, policies, or learning environments. The approach can be found in efforts to center equity and inclusion in the creation or modification of curriculum […]
When adult learners decide to return to higher education, whether for career opportunities or personal growth, they often experience barriers. This webinar will discuss the barriers many adult learners encounter when deciding to return to post-secondary education such as situational barriers, institutional barriers, and dispositional barriers. First, situational barriers will explore personal obstacles that involve […]
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How aware are you of cybersecurity risks in your work as a learning professional? Whether or not we realize it, we all deal with large amounts of data in our professional activities, much of it belonging to others. During this webinar, cybersecurity specialist Mahmoud Gad will share some insight on his experience dealing with large-scale […]
Feeling stuck? Facing burnout? Do you know colleagues in this situation ? Developing and sustaining creativity is an integral aspect of self-actualization, both at work and in your personal life. In this talk, I will present research findings from my phd thesis on sustainable creativity in teaching: what it is, why it matters and how […]
In the 1st of this 2-part webinar series, Dr. Kim Gomez discussed how working collaboratively in partnership can be enhanced through the use of co-design, an exciting and evidence-based approach to increasing the likelihood of successful adoption and implementation of innovative educational initiatives. Montreal-based examples of such initiatives include the Learning Communities project at Dawson […]
Our panel of emerging researchers reunite to critically explore their own experiences of collaborative design in education, research and teaching. From educational innovation projects to STEM research on perinatal trauma, these emerging scholars explore the messiness of collaborating across people, time and space. This talk is inspired by the following questions: what partnerships emerge in […]
With Sharon Coyle, Master Teacher Program (MTP), Performa faculty, University of Sherbrooke This interactive webinar will provide strategies for Cegep teachers to support their students in navigating the internet. Have you ever asked your students any of the following questions? Did you notice the spelling mistakes in the article you cited? Did you check the dates? Do you only have one source? […]
The Pedagopauses are casual meetings whose themes will allow the CPs to share their knowledge and expertise with the other members of the community, thus initiating a process of co-construction of practices and knowledge within the community. This activity, animated by Quinn Johnson, pedagogical counselor at CEGEP Champlain St. Lawrence, will be occasion to discuss […]