The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn, recognizes innovative approaches that promote student-centred teaching and learning at the post-secondary level. Candidates do not need to be members of STLHE to apply.

Winners will receive $2,200 toward travel and registration costs for the annual STLHE conference, a two-year membership to STLHE and a certificate of recognition. As many as five awards are presented annually.

The deadline for applications is January 19, 2020. Get detailed information about the application process on the . Interested applicants should submit their application dossiers to the 杏吧原创 University Teaching Awards Committee (CUTAC) at tls@carleton.ca for review by December 7, 2019, so that committee members can provide their feedback and help with institutional endorsement.

The award recognizes educators who are redefining the learning experience through innovative, student-centred practices. among applicants from around the world.

Tr茅panier thoughtfully and creatively incorporates technology into her courses, all while keeping one thing in mind 鈥� her students.

鈥淧rofessor Tr茅panier has embraced the use of appropriate educational technologies while always thinking carefully about the pedagogy behind them,鈥� said Jerry Tomberlin, 杏吧原创鈥檚 Provost and Vice-President (Academic). 鈥淩ather than be a passive observer of the online course material, students in Anne Tr茅panier鈥檚 courses experience the fully interactive course features that she designed.鈥�

The award recipients will be recognized at this year鈥檚 STLHE annual conference, June 11 to 14 in Winnipeg. Each of the five winners will receive a two-year membership in STLHE, as well as $2,200 toward travel and registration costs for STLHE鈥檚 annual conference.

Tr茅panier is the fourth 杏吧原创 professor to receive this award. Previous winners include: Jesse Stewart (2017), Peggy Hartwick (2015) and Shawn Graham (2013).

The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn, recognizes innovative approaches that promote student-centred teaching and learning at the post-secondary level. Candidates do not need to be members of STLHE to apply.

Winners will receive $2,200 toward travel and registration costs for the annual STLHE conference, a two-year membership to STLHE and a certificate of recognition. As many as five awards are presented annually.

The deadline for applications is January 20, 2019. . TLS is here to help you develop a successful application package. Please contact us at oavptl@carleton.ca to set up a consultation.

The award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn, recognizes innovative approaches that promote student-centered teaching and learning at the post-secondary level. Candidates do not need to be members of STLHE to apply.

Winners will receive $2,200 toward travel and registration costs for the annual STLHE conference, a two-year membership to STLHE and a certificate of recognition. As many as five awards are presented annually.

The deadline for applications is Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Get detailed information about the application process on the . TLS is here to help you develop a successful application package. Please contact us at oavptl@carleton.ca to set up a consultation.

Prof. Jesse Stewart plays a bibliophone鈥攁 xylophone made out of hardcover books鈥攊n the MacOdrum Library.

By Emily Cook, TLS Staff Writer

Beyond instruments and traditional orchestras, Jesse Stewart believes music has the power to bring people together and change the world. And he鈥檚 playing a role in that, starting in the classroom.

Stewart, a faculty member with 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 music program, was recognized with a 2017 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. His philosophy for music-making, teaching and learning is simple.

鈥淚 would like to make music with as many people as possible, from as many different kinds of backgrounds as possible,鈥� he says.

Music is now being listened to and experienced in whole new ways because of technology, says Stewart, and it’s changing the roles of composer, performer and audience member. He encourages students in his composition class to reconsider these roles through a web-based learning project.

鈥淩ather than relying on received ideas of what each of those things entails, I try to encourage students to think critically about them,鈥� he says.

One group of students took that concept and built the . They recorded sounds across campus and input them into an online map. The viewer interacts with the map, creating a unique kind of instrument.

Stewart says he believes students are active agents in their learning. So when he wanted to expand his instrumentation and orchestration course textbook to include non-Western symphony instruments, he turned to his students.

Stewart had his students complete assignments on different instruments and then put them together in an online textbook for future classes.

鈥淭he reality is that composers today are using all kinds of different instruments and are writing for all kinds of different instruments in their work,鈥� he says.

The orchestras in Stewart鈥檚 ensemble course are perfect examples of this. Stewart acts as a facilitator, while as a group, students create an ensemble that is unique and innovative in its approach to instrumentation. One ensemble called The Balloon Orchestra used latex balloons as musical instruments. Another, Paperphonics, explored the use of paper and cardboard. The H2Orchestra experimented with the sonic potential of water.

鈥淚 see that as one of my responsibilities as an educator, to hopefully expose students in my classes to things they might not come across otherwise,鈥� he says.

But Stewart鈥檚 impact as an educator extends well beyond the classroom and into the community.

His Music and Social Justice course explores music as an agent for positive social change. One of his classes visited an Ottawa-area school and made musical instruments with the children, many of who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

鈥淚 hope that maybe those kids will think, 鈥楳usic can be part of my life,鈥欌�� he says.

Stewart says he recognizes many people experience barriers to music, which he believes is a fundamental right.

鈥淚 believe music has a very important role to play, not just in modeling social justice, but in actually bringing about social justice,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 think as a society, we have a responsibility to ensure everyone has access to the arts and to music.鈥�