Revitalize Your Teaching: Accessible Learning 

This series of four 60-minute sessions aimed at faculty and instructors at all experience levels in Rady Health Sciences. Each session offers practical strategies on a range of topics relevant to teaching, including strategies for assignment design that offer students greater levels of clarity, developing your teaching-centered Personal Reconciliation Action Plan, checking in with accessible learning design, and staying motivated and creative when it comes to including active learning in your lesson planning.

This session will outline the Accessibility for Manitobans Act – Information and Communication Standard. We will review strategies and tools available to align with this legislation.

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Experiential Learning Community of Practice Brown Bag Lunch Conversations: Learning from Experiential Learning Challenges

Bring your lunch and connect with other members of our community of practice! There is no formal agenda for these casual meetings just good people and conversation! Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts and experiences as we explore different topics in experiential learning.

Topic: Have you ever introduced an experiential activity in your class that didn’t unfold as expected? Anyone who has engaged in experiential learning knows that setbacks are inevitable. Let’s take this opportunity to reflect on our “flops,” not as failures, but as valuable learning moments—reminding ourselves that not every activity is a triumph, and that’s part of the process.

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Revitalize Your Teaching: A Teaching & Learning Reconciliation Action Plan 

This series of four 60-minute sessions aimed at faculty and instructors at all experience levels in Rady Health Sciences. Each session offers practical strategies on a range of topics relevant to teaching, including strategies for assignment design that offer students greater levels of clarity, developing your teaching-centered Personal Reconciliation Action Plan, checking in with accessible learning design, and staying motivated and creative when it comes to including active learning in your lesson planning.

This session will introduce attendees to strategies required for developing your teaching-centered Personal Reconciliation Action Plan.

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Manitoba Open Education Symposium

UM Libraries is working with Campus Manitoba and other Manitoba post-secondary institutions to organize the Manitoba Open Education Symposium — with the theme of Open Horizons: Affordability and Access through Open Education. ​ 

We’re inviting faculty, staff and students to join us for engaging discussions on how to build an open and accessible education system that fosters digital innovation, cross-institutional collaboration, and student affordability.

Keynote speakers include Amanda Coolidge, executive director, BCcampus, and Robert Luke, CEO, eCampusOntario. Apurva Ashok, executive director of the Rebus Foundation will be facilitating workshops on “Creating OER with Students” and “DEI in Open Publishing.”

Registration and program details can be found here

Designing Accessible and Engaging Online Courses 

In this engaging 3-hour workshop, university faculty and instructors will explore practical aspects of designing online courses. Participants will engage in hands-on activities to develop learner personas, apply constructive alignment, and integrate UDL principles, focusing on decolonizing and accessible design approaches. Guided by real-time facilitation, participants will create course blueprints that align learning outcomes with active learning and assessment strategies. They will be empowered to craft a targeted, interactive, and inclusive course that prioritizes learners’ agency.

This workshop is part of The Centre’s Online Learning Institute. No prerequisite workshops required.

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Revitalize Your Teaching: Keeping Active Learning Fresh and Fun

This series of four 60-minute sessions aimed at faculty and instructors at all experience levels in Rady Health Sciences. Each session offers practical strategies on a range of topics relevant to teaching, including strategies for assignment design that offer students greater levels of clarity, developing your teaching-centered Personal Reconciliation Action Plan, checking in with accessible learning design, and staying motivated and creative when it comes to including active learning in your lesson planning.

Whether you are flipping a day or two in your upcoming courses, or just looking for new active learning strategies to add to your toolbox, this session on ‘Keeping Active Learning Fresh and Fun’ will help you continue to add to your repertoire of activities and options. 

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What’s Working, What’s Not?: Shake Hands with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

All instructors identify problems in their courses. Whether students’ struggles to master a key concept or a teaching practice that may not be meeting its purpose, how do we explore “what’s working and what’s not” in our courses?  In this workshop we will explore problems that are ripe for investigation and consider how SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) practices might help us to systematically evaluate the impact of intervention strategies. To participate fully, please bring a smartphone, tablet, or laptop.

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Developing Accessible and Engaging Courses in UM Learn

Ready to enhance your online teaching with a course that’s clear, interactive, and accessible? Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to create student-friendly course modules using UM Learn and other UM-supported tools. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to refine your approach, this workshop will equip you with practical strategies to develop inclusive and engaging online learning environments. 

This workshop is part of The Centre’s Online Learning Institute. No prerequisite workshops required.

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Facilitating Online with Confidence and Care

This workshop empowers faculty members to translate and build on  their teaching expertise, in the online environment by applying and using inclusive facilitation practices, active learning strategies, accessible technologies, and evidence-based approaches, including decolonial and relational methods to foster meaningful connection, engagement, and equity in digital spaces.

This workshop is part of The Centre’s Online Learning Institute. No prerequisite workshops required.

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Universal Design for Learning in Practice: Integrated Accommodations and Incorporating SAS Accommodations to Design Inclusive Classrooms

In an ongoing monthly series, participants will review discreet elements of Universal Design (UDL) for Learning and work together to develop pedagogical practices that align with the UDL principle being discussed that month.

This session will focus on the Integrated Accommodations initiative. This initiative is a collaboration between Student Accessibility Services and The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and is meant to help instructors design SAS accommodations into their courses. Courses with integrated accommodations are registered with SAS, removing the need for further accommodations within that specific course. Attendees will learn about the philosophy and benefits behind this initiative as well as how to take part.

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