Designing your online/remote course is not something you have to do on your own. Not only are your colleagues incredible sources of experience and knowledge, they are excellent emotional supports, too. This is not an easy transition for everyone and faculty well-being is paramount to the success of your course. Helping each other, supporting each other, and encouraging each other will not only improve your course design but will improve course design at FASE as a whole.
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Engineering Communities
U of T Communities
External Communities
Engineering Communities
Departmental Communities
Listed below are established communities created within their home departments:
- CivMin Departmental Forum: For more information, please contact Keenan Dixon.
- ECE Departmental Forum: For more information, please contact Khoman Phang.
- First Year Instructors: For access to the Microsoft Team, please contact Leslie Grife.
Faculty-wide Communities
- FASE Early Career Faculty Team: For access to the Microsoft Team, please contact Elodie Passeport.
- Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) Community of Practice (CoP): While not solely focused on online/remote learning, it is focused on implemented active learning (whether online or in person) into your teaching. Plus, we like to talk about anything and everything teaching related. Submit this webform to join the CoP (and be added to the Quercus hub).
U of T Communities
Online/Remote Learning
- Online Learning Academy (Faculty of Arts & Science): In response to our rapidly changing environment, the Faculty has launched the Online Learning Academy (OLA) to bring together professors and instructors to share their expertise in providing outstanding online learning opportunities for students.
- Large Online/Remote Learning: As part of ongoing continuity planning and support Online Learning Strategies has co-facilitated a preliminary round table discussion with University of Toronto instructors who have an interest in developing and facilitating high enrollment (200+) courses. To receive ongoing communication or to participate in upcoming round tables, please RSVP using Large Online/Remote courses – Community Network RSVP.
Virtual Labs for Remote/Online Courses
- Virtual Labs for Remote/Online Courses: As part of ongoing continuity planning and support Online Learning Strategies has co-facilitated a preliminary roundtable discussion with University of Toronto instructors who have an interest in online labs for remote/online teaching experience (see Online Labs for Remote/Online Courses – Strategies and Online Labs for Remote Online Courses – Recommended Resources). To receive ongoing communication or to participate in upcoming round tables, please RSVP using Virtual Labs for Remote/Online Courses – Community Network RSVP.
External Communities
Engineering Education Groups
- Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG): There are a number of special interest groups that members can join; these are open to engineering schools across the country (and likely beyond) and are a great way to get a wider perspective.
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)