Not Everything: How to Know What to Do First
In this brief, fun, messy talk, Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer will journey with participants through the troubles with to-do lists, the problem(s) with “priorities”, and goal-setting gaps. We’ll reconnect, we’ll laugh, and we’ll look closely at the pressures we’re all under, urgency most of all. In this hour of togetherness—as educators, as parents, as students […]
Motivating Durable Learning: Focused Attention through Instructional Design
Most of the undergraduates at McMaster University take introductory psychology in their academic programs. How do you deliver a high-quality educational experience to 6000+ students and maintain an academically rigorous program that motivates deep learning? Research from cognitive psychology on attention, memory and learning has informed our pedagogical decisions to develop evidence-based interventions in education. […]
Helping Students Do Academic Work
Leonard Geddes is founder of The LearnWell Projects, an academic success organization that is devoted to making learning more visible, manageable, and effective. Mr. Geddes’ work leverages metacognition research to optimize student learning, enhance faculty instruction, and improve institutional outcomes. He was worked with dozens of colleges and university to establish metacognitive-based Quality Enhancement Plans […]
Compassionate Data Collection: Promoting Equity in Evaluation
In this webinar, Dr. Deb Chiodo from CAMH and Daniel Murcia from Alvenco consulting, will explore equity and intersectionality, what it is and why it is important, and how to integrate equity into evaluation activities. In addition, this webinar will discuss the importance of why we should be collecting demographic data and how this data […]