Office of Education Development and Gateway Education

Workshop Series

EDGE provides services, courses, workshops and other activities to help students become better learners.

EDGE Seminar Series

Each semester, the Office of Education Development and Gateway Education (EDGE) offers a variety of professional development workshops and special programmes. These events are opportunities to learn about and explore ways to enhance learning and teaching and to meet new colleagues. The EDGE Seminar Series consist of workshops / lectures which focus on a specific topic related to teaching and learning. This semester, the main theme is ASSESSMENT.

  • The workshops are open to anyone in the university (faculty / staff / administrators) wishing to learn or enhance skills.
  • The goal of the series is to build a community of faculty and staff who develop, improve and integrate creative, innovative and effective use of appropriate pedagogy and technologies to enhance student learning.

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LASSI Staff Workshops (on demand)

Consultations and workshops for your classes targeting specific LASSI components are available. Please consult us for more details.

GE-TEACH / Active Learning in the Classroom Series

In preparation for the implementation of the Gateway Education (GE) curriculum as part of the 4 year degree programme, the Associate Provost (Academic Planning and Undergraduate Education) and the Office of Education Development and Gateway Education (EDGE) partnered to present a series of staff development sessions GE-TEACH during Semester B, in 2008-09 & 2009-10. In addition, the EDGE offered a series of workshops focusing on Active Learning in the Classroom, to assist in the design and development of new GE courses within the OBTL framework and to increase alignment with the approved desired characteristics of GE courses.
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Strategic Teaching Enhancement Programme (STEP)

EDGE has developed STEP to assist new and experienced academic staff to adapt to the changing nature of the environment in which they work, and incorporates significant learning opportunities in relation to OBTL and e-learning, as well as maintaining the focus on understanding how our students learn, assessing the strengths and weaknesses in their learning strategies, and providing resources and academic support to enable students to take proactive action to better manage their own learning. STEP consists of 10 related sessions where participants are engaged in a range of interactive activities.
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