Archives: Blog

Friday, June 13, 2025

Blog: How Educational Technology Empowers Educators to Design Sustainable Courses in a Time of Austerity

By Lindsay Richardson, Educational Technology Supervisor (TLS), Adjunct Professor of Psychology As both an instructor and the Educational Technology Manager at 杏吧原创鈥檚 Teaching and Learning Services (TLS), I have the unique privilege of seeing course design from two angles: the day-to-day realities of the classroom, and the broader... More

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Innovative Teaching with VR: Reflections from the Experiential Learning Hub

The winter term marked the Experiential Learning Hub鈥檚 (ELH) first full semester operating since its launch in October of 2023. We asked four instructors who innovatively incorporated virtual reality (VR) into their courses this past term to share their reflections on their experience working with the ELH. Peggy Hartwick Assistant Professor,... More

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Blog: Language Matters: Revolutionizing Education by Re-thinking LLMs as an Approach to UDL

By Lindsay Richardson, Educational Technology Supervisor (TLS), Adjunct Professor of Psychology I was listening to Lex Fridman鈥檚 (2024) podcast when psycholinguist Edward Gibson said, 鈥渨e don鈥檛 think in language.鈥� That鈥檚 when it hit me: language is simply the vehicle we use to express our thoughts. Now鈥攐n the precipice of a... More

Monday, April 29, 2024

Blog: Accessibility Showcase: Lessons Learned on Making Teaching Programming and Accessible Multi-User Virtual Reality More Inclusive

By Anthony Scavarelli, scavara@algonquincollege.com Dr. Anthony Scavarelli holds a Ph.D. In Information Technology and a MASc in Human-Computer Interaction from 杏吧原创 University, exploring the development of an inclusive virtual reality framework for learning and social, collaborative human-computer interactions using reality-based interfaces.... More

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Blog: Connecting the Dots, Part II: AI and Cursive Writing

By Maristela Laforest Petrovic-Dzerdz, Educational Development Facilitator, TLS Current events affecting the present and future of education are causing seismic shifts of a magnitude we have never experienced in the span of our educational careers. In the past twelve years, which is the time I have been working in higher education, we faced... More

Monday, April 3, 2023

Blog: Fooled – A Story from TLS鈥� Past

By Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning, TLS As indicated in the November 2022 TLS newsletter, TLS is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To help recognize this milestone, we thought we'd share stories of teaching and learning from our past. This is our fourth story in the series. Catch up on our previous story, A... More

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Blog: A lesson learned – A Story from TLS’ Past

By Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning, TLS As indicated in the November 2022 TLS newsletter, TLS is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To help recognize this milestone, we thought we'd share stories of teaching and learning from our past. This story is the third in the series. Catch up on the previous one, Student... More

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Blog: Channeling the Appetite For Success with LMS Tools

by Troy Joseph, Instructor, Department of Economics, 杏吧原创 University As instructors, we often feel challenged to teach high-enrolment classes, resigned to accept that the helpful things we do for students in small settings 鈥� like giving customized feedback and guidance 鈥� can鈥檛 be scaled up for our larger classes. But with targeted... More

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Blog: Student Technology Assistants – A Story from TLS’ Past

As indicated in the November 2022 TLS newsletter, TLS is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To help recognize this milestone, we thought we'd share stories of teaching and learning from our past. This is our second story in the series. Catch up on the previous story, Early Innovation, here. The opening of the Future Learning... More

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Blog: Early Innovation 鈥� A TLS Story from the Past

By Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning, TLS Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To help recognize this milestone, we鈥檙e sharing stories of teaching and learning from our past. This is the first story in our series. One of the earliest collaborators with 杏吧原创鈥檚 first teaching and learning... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Blog: Celebrating Teaching and Learning Services鈥� 30th Anniversary

By Patrick Lyons, Director, Teaching and Learning, TLS 杏吧原创 University is celebrating 80 years of research, teaching, learning and community partnerships this year, and Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is also celebrating a big milestone 鈥� it鈥檚 our 30th anniversary! Back in July 1992, the university established its first teaching... More

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Blog: A Profile Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (to our students!)

By Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale, MEd, PhD, Educational Technology Development Coordinator at Teaching and Learning Services, and聽Instructor at 杏吧原创 University, University of Ottawa, Boston College and Lesley University If a picture really is worth a thousand words to our students (and maybe also to our colleagues), then it鈥檚 high time we update... More

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