LSAC National Conference 2025
LSAC National Conference 2025Disrupt, Adapt, Innovate: Learning Redesigned May 20 – 22, 2025 Centennial College, Toronto, Canada About the LSAC National Conference This conference is for people interested in enhancing their professional practice as educators and improving learning for postsecondary students. The discussions and presentations may be of interest to learning specialists, higher education teaching faculty, […]
ICALLD Symposium Over Time
FREE MEMBERS EVENT Making cases for the role of learning development/advising in changing educational landscapes We are delighted to announce the 9th International Symposium Over Time! Over two days, rolling around the clock, participants from member associations will take turns facilitating discussions. All attendees are encouraged to share answers, experiences, and observations. Facilitators will compile […]
LSAC National 2023 Conference
The Learning Specialists Association of Canada (LSAC) is hosting its biannual National Conference on May 17, 18, 19, 2023, at UNBC in Prince George, BC!
Eastern & Atlantic Joint Regional Conference
(RE)defining retention, persistence and resilience Welcome to our first hybrid Eastern and Atlantic Regional LSAC conference! This year we aim to come together in community and create space to explore ideas, programming, and initiatives that have both worked well over the past two years and those that didn’t land as we expected but that we […]
ICALLD Symposia-Over-Time: Evaluating the impact of Tertiary Learning Advice Consultations on student learning and development
(ATLAANZ, New Zealand – June 2021) Learning advisors at Student Learning Te Taiako regularly evaluate our Tertiary Learning Advice Consultations (TLACs), workshops and programmes, by conducting student surveys and focus groups, together with staff peer-observations and one-minute papers. In response to recent calls in the literature to go beyond attendance data and perceived student satisfaction to ‘measure’ impact, […]
ICALLD Symposia-Over-Time: Capturing academic language and learning structures, contexts and practices
(AALL, Australia – May 2021) Dr Sally Ashton-Hay, Alex Barthel and Dr Amanda Müller spoke about updating the Australian University Register of Academic Language and Learning (ALL) Centres / Units. The aim was to capture the structures in which we work, the contexts in which ALL happens, and the practices that we engage in. The update […]
ICALLD Symposia-Over-Time: Thriving in Action
(LSAC, Canada – December 2020) In this uplifting, experiential session, ICALLD participants were introduced to Ryerson University’s Thriving in Action (TiA) program, a unique mind-body-heart-spirit intervention for struggling students. Dr. Diana Brecher and Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer explained TiA’s structure and purposes, how TiA fits into the Canadian academic and wellbeing landscape, and provided opportunities and resources […]
ICALLD Symposia-Over-Time: How to Teach in a Pandemic
(ALDinHe, United Kingdom – October 2020) In the first installment of ICALLD’s ‘Symposium-over-time’ for 2020-21, Dr Carina Buckley and Kate Coulson from ALDinHE in the UK were joined over an hour by participants from all five ICALLD nations, based in cities as diverse as Vancouver, Calgary, Hamilton, Wellington, Perth, Glasgow, Leicester and Plymouth. Kate and Carina […]