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How does the Advancing Learning Conference support your institution’s mission?

The Advancing Learning Conference highlights best practices in technology-enabled learning and digital pedagogy in Ontario colleges. By attending this conference, you will learn strategies to enhance digital teaching and learning, and program quality, to support the 21st century student.

How does the Advancing Learning Conference support the expansion of skills, development of new teaching strategies and/or deepen the understanding of subject content?

When you attend the Advancing Learning Conference, you will learn and network with practicing educators in Ontario colleges. With an emphasis on lessons learned during the pandemic, conference sessions will examine how technology is currently impacting teaching and learning and explore ideas and trends that will shape the future of digital teaching. There will be a focus on the relevant themes of:

• Technology-enabled learning
• Digital pedagogy
• Instructional design
• HyFlex
• Quality online
• Accessible course design
• Immersive reality
• Artificial intelligence

You will learn best practices, lessons learned, and implementation strategies to provide high-quality, student-centered teaching and learning.

Does the Advancing Learning Conference provide the opportunity for practice, research and reflection?

Workshops at the Advancing Learning Conference will consist of hands-on activities that will enable you to experience and practice new skills. Session topics have been informed by research and practitioner reflection and may inspire your own scholarship of teaching and learning research.

The conference also will include networking opportunities where you can reflect upon and share your experiences and lessons with colleagues and learn from their triumphs and tribulations.

How will the Advancing Learning Conference contribute to the performance, ability or effectiveness of your team?

When you attend the Advancing Learning Conference, you will learn about educational technology and innovative pedagogy that will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. You will also leave this conference with an understanding of hot topic conversations in education, like HyFlex teaching and artificial intelligence, that will help you to shape the future of your institution. When you share what you have learned with your colleagues, your entire learning community will benefit from these newly learned approaches to teaching and learning.

How will you share your learning with your team?

Here are some suggestions for how you can share your learning within your institution:

• Present conference highlights during a departmental meeting
• Summarize the key takeaways for your departmental newsletter
• Instructional design
• Tweet about what you’re learning each day
• Implement what you’ve learned in your classes and share your experience with your colleagues or at a future Advancing Learning Conference

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to advancinglearning@durhamcollege.ca.