Workshops/Conferences

Attending workshops and conferences can be time consuming and expensive in some cases, but they often yield some of the best results when it comes to recharging interest and passion towards teaching practice. This is most commonly a result of interacting with other people who are passionate about the area and who are doing interesting and innovative things in their professional practice. Sometimes this interaction serves to provide new focus, other times it helps to galvanize the work that is already being done. It is also often helpful to realize that you are not alone in your struggles and frustrations - there are others out there dealing with the same barriers and frustrations.

Starting locally, the Teaching Centre runs a number of workshops and events all geared at different aspects of the teaching experience (from technical workshops to new research and methodologies):

On-campus Workshops/Events

• Spark Teaching Symposium - https://www.uleth.ca/teachingcentre/spark

• Other Workshops/Events - https://www.ulethbridge.ca/teachingcentre/upcoming-workshops-and-events

External Events of Interest: 

There are also some very good conferences within the province that provide an opportunity to begin networking with Faculty from across the province:

Provincial Conferences

• Mount Royal University Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - iSoTL (Fall) - http://isotlsymposium.mtroyal.ca/

• University of Calgary Conference on Post-Secondary Learning and Teaching - (Spring) https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/conference

And there are a number of excellent national and international conferences that draw some of the biggest names in research and practice together to discuss barriers and opportunities in education:

National Conferences

• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - STLHE  - https://stlhe.ca/conferences/

• Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education - CSSHE - https://csshe-scees.ca/

International Conferences

• The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - ISSOTL (Fall) - http://www.issotl.com/issotl15/node/28

• South by SouthWest EDU - (Spring) - http://sxswedu.com/

• E-Learn - World Conference on Ed Tech - http://www.aace.org/conf/

• EdMedia Innovate Learning conference - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education - AACE - https://aace.org/conf/edmedia/

• Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference - SITE (Spring) - http://www.aace.org/conf/

• Educause - http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference

This list is not intended to be definitive, simply a sampling of some of the workshops and conferences that we have participated in.