Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning shapes and inspires exceptional learning environments inside and outside the classroom by developing and supporting teaching excellence and innovation, continuing education, and experiential learning opportunities.

Our professional teams contribute to a culture where teachers and learners feel highly encouraged, valued and empowered. This intentional collaboration of inclusive teaching and learning supports is part of what makes ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ unique.

Transforming the Way Students Learn

Student success is a key focus of all of our efforts in Teaching and Learning.

We bring faculty, staff, students and community together to align career development and experiential learning, and to support curricular workplace partnerships and programming.

With focused supports available directly to faculty, academic staff, and graduate and undergraduate students, ��˲�Ʊƽ̨’s breadth of instructors can explore new approaches to their teaching practice with a diverse range of events, workshops, and professional consultation services.

Highly engaging experiences delivered by faculty in the classroom and online paired with excellence in co-curricular opportunities are all underpinned by a wide variety of services to help ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ students reach their full academic potential.

Award-winning People, Places and Programming

��˲�Ʊƽ̨ has a proud history of instructional excellence and creating engaging learning environments that promote exceptional student experiences.

Instructors at ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ have been recognized for their dedication, engagement and passion for teaching through a number of high-profile awards at the institutional, provincial, national and international level.

Teaching and Learning works alongside faculty, staff, students and community to align learning technologies with online programming, entrepreneurship and career development efforts.

From the innovative learning spaces in our multi-campus communities to our commitment to providing the tools and expertise for engaging educational experiences, Teaching and Learning is an active part of your life at ��˲�Ʊƽ̨.

For Students

Info for Community and Workplace Partners

Teaching Excellence and Innovation

Teaching Excellence and Innovation Team

Experiential Learning and Career Development

Continuing Education

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Spotlights

Master of Applied Computing student launches career with eight-month co-op.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨ Association for Lifelong Learning offers wide-ranging lectures in Waterloo and Brantford.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨ launches micro-credentials program for educators focused on child and youth mental health.

Teaching and Learning launches the Conversations about Teaching Excellence series.

Experiential learning initiative engages ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ Arts students in municipal projects.

Undergraduate certificates in digital media, geomatics will equip students with in-demand skills.

TD Lab works with ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ to offer valuable experiential learning opportunities for students.

Economics associate professor wins Teaching Excellence Award from Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance.

Community Health and Biology Associate Professor Richelle Monaghan named ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ Teaching Fellow.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨ students gain future-ready skills and give back through community and workplace partnerships.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨’s Centre for Public Safety and Well-Being awarded for Gladue Principles and Global Crime and Justice continuing education programs.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨, Empowerment Squared partnership provides students virtual service-learning opportunity.

Teaching and Learning staff support ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ instructors with transition to alternative assessment formats.

A World of Difference: International education opportunities at ��˲�Ʊƽ̨.

‘Real problems worth solving’: Harnessing user experience design to tackle homelessness

Poland field course immerses ��˲�Ʊƽ̨ students in the history of the Holocaust.

��˲�Ʊƽ̨ User Experience Design student Fatima Khan named Co-op Student of the Year.

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