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We need your input on our resources and services!
This Summer, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is focused on an internal process review and improvement, to better support you this upcoming school year. The CELT exists to support all learning and teaching at TMU and we would like your feedback on our resources and services. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey and let us know about your experiences with our work, and what support you’d like in the future.
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Awards, funding, and grants
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Announcing the inaugural Teaching with OER Grant: A partnership between TMU Libraries and the CELT
TMU Libraries and the CELT are pleased to announce the launch of this joint grant that encourages creation and meaningful integration of open educational resources (OER) in course design. OER are learning materials that are openly licensed such that they are freely available to be adapted, copied, and shared.
This grant is unique among the OER grants available at TMU Libraries. In addition to funding, the grant provides pedagogical and instructional design support, as well as multimedia production services, all provided by CELT’s Digital Learning team.
Building on TMU Libraries’ expertise in OER publishing and dissemination, this grant is a proactive step to address the burden of rising textbook costs that will improve access for TMU students to learning materials.
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Call for Proposals: Technology + Education Seminar + Showcase (TESS)
Every year, eCampusOntario brings together professionals from Ontario’s publicly-assisted colleges, universities, and Indigenous Institutes to discuss, celebrate, and advance technological innovation, community, and collaboration. Over 300 educators, administrators, librarians and instructional designers from across Ontario and North America come to TESS to experience a full and lively conference of thought-provoking plenaries and presentations, hands-on workshops and opportunities to meet with colleagues.
This year's theme is Reinventing Education for a Resilient Future. The deadline for submissions is July 9, 2025, at 5 p.m.
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Registration now open: Digital Pedagogy
Institute
The DPI 2025 Steering Committee is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 11th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI). The DPI will take place August 12th to 14th, 2025. This year’s events will take place virtually, via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend! Registration is required and is free of charge. Registration closes August 5, 2025.
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Projects, tools, and resources
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Teach in the Active Learning Classroom: Fall application deadline is Monday, July 7!
The Active Learning Classroom (ALC) is a space for instructors to explore and experiment with active learning pedagogy. The space is flexible and includes a variety of design features to encourage participatory learning in a welcoming environment and to encourage active collaboration between students and instructors. The deadline to submit a request is July 7, 2025.
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Podagogies Presents Live from the LTC
Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference |
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In this special edition of Podagogies, Chelsea and Curtis sit down with faculty, contract lecturers, and staff attending Toronto Metropolitan University’s 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference has been a tradition every May at TMU for over thirty years. From considering the impacts of GenAI, to imagining more collaborative, caring, and inclusive learning spaces, members of TMU’s teaching community share their thoughts and insights from this year’s event.
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Sa11y (website accessibility checker) is now available within PressBooks
Creating an open textbook in PressBooks? Easily check for content accessibility issues with Sa11y before publishing your textbook!
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3M National Teaching Fellows Seminar Series: Dr. Alison Flynn |
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In collaboration with the Faculty of Science (FoS), the CELT hosted Dr. Alison Flynn (uOttawa; 2017 3MNTF) for an invited seminar on her cutting-edge research in chemistry education. Dr. Flynn also joined the CELT's Teaching
Fellows for an engaging discussion on SoTL at TMU and beyond.
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Forest Bathing Walk hosted by Dr. Chizuru Nobe-Ghelan |
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Thanks to all those who attended the
Forest Bathing Walk hosted by Dr. Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani, CSFS Member and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Attendees included former Teaching Fellow, Yukari Seko as well as a number of CELT and OVPA staff: Esther Ignagni, Tania Gamage, Kelly Flinn and former Educational Developer Renee Ferguson. Read the event report for more details and calming forest photos. Please reach out to Yukari or Chizuru if you would like to learn more about earth-based pedagogies.
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Photo by: France Natera
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Location: Virtual Online
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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Join the Registrar’s Office for this virtual event to learn more about handling grading responsibilities in alignment with TMU’s policies. In this session, you will learn about grading deadlines, impacts of late and missing grades, and where to find
resources and assistance. This informative event will be facilitated by Ciro LeCompte, Sahar Reyes, Michelle Green, and Aly Burtch.
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Location: 8th floor of the Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex (DCC)
Date: Wednesdays between June 4 and September 24
Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Join your colleagues and the TMU community for Wednesday lunch hours on the roof. Take in the sun and breathtaking views of the city on Toronto’s first purpose-built rooftop farm dedicated to Black food sovereignty and Indigenous food sovereignty
initiatives.
While visiting, be sure to stop by the pop-up farm stand where you can purchase fresh produce, flowers or grab a glass of homemade iced tea, all made with ingredients grown right here on campus.
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