CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2016 TIME SESSION Pick up Registration Packages – Coffee and Light Refreshments 8:00-8:30 Plenary Session Hagey Hall (HH) Don Craig Atrium Welcome from Associate Vice-President, Academic, Mario Coniglio 8:30-8:45 8:45-10:00 10:0010:30 Introductions by Conference Chair Julie Timmermans, Centre for Teaching Excellence HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106 Presentation PRESIDENTS’ COLLOQUIUM Keynote Address by Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin Workshop HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106 Panel Thank you by Treasurer and member of FAUW Executive Committee, Lynne Taylor Refreshment break sponsored by FAUW Alternative Session HH Don Craig Atrium Session Numbers Session 100s 10:3011:30 Session 101 HH 1102 Small stakes, big learning: Building Writing Centre practice into assignment design Clare Bermingham, Nadine Fladd, and Mandy Penney, Writing Centre Session 102 HH 1104 Risk and resilience in an introductory Women’s Studies course Trevor Holmes, CTE; Katrina Ackerman, History; Jessica Blackwell, Library; Brianna Bennett, Science; Emily Lorentz and Meghan Voll, Arts; Tatianna Brierley, Environment Session 103 HH 1106 Fellows for failure: Teaching Fellows’ reflections on failure, challenge, and change 10:3010:55 Kelly Anthony, School of Public Health and Health Systems; Shannon Dea, Philosophy Session 104 HH 1108 104a Everything takes longer than you expect: Challenges designing, developing, and deploying open educational resources Tonya Elliott, CEL 11:0011:25 104b Accessible STEM: What guidelines don’t tell us about making online STEM content accessible and what we can do about it Tonya Elliott, CEL 11:3011:40 Break Session 105 HH 2104 105a Third time’s the charm: Case study challenges in a first year Management Engineering course Session 106 HH 2107 106a CANCELLED How to succeed in class, while failing in the process: Teaching failure as a risktaking tool in the classroom Ken McKay, Management Sciences; Samar Mohamed, CTE; Lyndia Stacey, Dean of Engineering Office 5 Minute Transition Jennifer Vokoun, Humanities, Walsh University CANCELLED 105b Ideas Clinic series of teamwork workshops – Implementation and evaluation of two firstyear workshops 106b Persist, pivot, or punt: Teaching students to learn from setbacks through rapid iteration Samar Mohamed, CTE; Ada Hurst, Management Sciences; Erin Jobidon and Andrea Prier, SSO; Chris Rennick, Engineering Undergrad Office; Jason Grove, Chemical Engineering; Carol Hulls, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; Rania AlHammoud, Civil and Environmental Engineering 5 Minute Transition David Goodwin and Jill Tomasson Goodwin, Drama and Speech Communication Session 200s 11:4012:35 Session 201 HH 1102 Stories of teaching challenge and failure 11:4012:05 Featuring stories by Steve Furino, Mathematics; Judi Jewinski, Renison University College; Greta Kroeker, History; Bob Sproule, School of Accounting and Finance; David Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering Session 202 HH 1104 202a Problem-solving group work in an online Physics course Felicia Pantazi, CEL; Joe Sanderson, and Robbie Henderson, Physics and Astronomy Session 203 HH 1106 203a WatPD's Marker Training course: An effective solution for teaching teams of all sizes Amy Fernandes and Victoria Feth, WatPD Session 204 HH 1108 204a Gamifying the classroom: A natural framework for risk taking, making mistakes, and continuous learning Session 205 HH 2104 205a What works the first time doesn't always work the second - and that's the beauty of the Engineering Ideas Clinics Hadi Hosseini, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and CTE; Maxwell Hartt, School of Planning Marc Aucoin, Chemical Engineering; Eline Boghaert, Engineering Undergrad Office and Chemical Engineering; Bryan Tripp, Systems Design Engineering; Christine Moresoli, Chemical Engineering; Maud Gorbet, Systems Design Engineering Session moderator: Julie Timmermans, CTE Session 206 HH 2107 206a Using interactive activities and a case study to promote deeper learning in Statistics Diana Skrzydlo and NamHwui Kim, Statistics and Actuarial Science 5 Minute Transition 12:1012:35 12:352:00 202b Assessment challenges and innovations in technologyaugmented instruction and learning 203b How environmental contextdependent memory affects student performance during an examination Ashley Kelly, English Language and Literature; Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University Amenda Chow, Math, Trent University 204b What a Fiasco! Student resistance to failure--even in learning activities where spectacular failure was the main point Vanessa Schweizer, Knowledge Integration; Luke Bayne LUNCH Federation Hall 2:002:45 “IGNITING OUR PRACTICE” Greta Kroeker (Arts) and Troy Vasiga (Math) Session moderated by Donna Ellis, Centre for Teaching Excellence HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106 2:452:50 Move to next session 205b Much ado about 0.02% Eline Boghaert, Engineering Undergrad Office and Chemical Engineering; Jason Grove, Chemical Engineering 206b Reflection and workintegrated learning: An opportunity to learn from failure Judene Pretti, WatCACE; Anne Marie Fannon, WatPD Session 300s 2:503:50 Session 301 HH 1102 Hello my name is Stephanie and I am [not] an imposter: Dealing with Impostor Syndrome in academia Stephanie Verkoeyen, Environment and CTE Session 302 HH 1104 Fail fast: Entrepreneurship as a metaphor for learning Colleen Sharen, Social Sciences, Management and Organizational Studies, Brescia University College, Western University Session 303 HH 1106 A fail-safe sorting algorithm for screening first and second draft writing assignments 2:503:15 Michele Bristow, Systems Design Engineering; Judi Jewinski, Renison University College; Graham Stonebridge, Systems Design Engineering Session 304 HH 1108 304a Flipping an introductory Physics classroom: Challenges and lessons learned in light of student feedback Firas Mansour, Physics and Astronomy; Mary Power, CTE; Felicia Pantazi, CEL; Samar Mohamed, CTE; Jessica Fallone, Physics and Astronomy Session 305 HH 2104 305a Risks and regressions: International development and the Holy Grail Julie Kate Seirlis, St. Paul’s and School of Environment, Enterprise and Development Session 306 HH 2107 306a Challenges in designing an online continuing education program for health professionals Feng Chang, Tejal Patel, Rosemary Killeen, and Agnes Kluz, School of Pharmacy; Felicia Pantazi, CEL 5 Minute Transition 3:203:45 304b Interactive flipped classrooms: Successes and challenges Rania Al-Hammoud, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Samar Mohamed, CTE 305b System failure James Skidmore, Germanic and Slavic Studies; Christina Kraenzle, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University 306b 2nd year midpoint assessment to identify PharmD students for remediation Cynthia Richard, Alana Rigby, and Andrea Edginton, School of Pharmacy 5 Minute Transition 3:504:05 Session 400s 4:055:05 BREAK Session 401 HH 1102 How can instructors support student mental health? Kristin Brown, Public Health and Health Systems and CTE; Stephanie Lu, Public Health and Heath Systems; Michele Anderson, AccessAbility Services; Tom Ruttan, Counselling Services 5:056:00 Session 402 HH 1104 Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) - A tool to support learning from challenges and failures Bob Sproule, School of Accounting and Finance; Andrew Milne, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; Monica Vesely, CTE; Gordon Stubley, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; Judi Jewinski, Renison University College; George Freeman and Allyson Giannikouris, Electrical and Computer Engineering Session 403 HH 1106 A prescription for success: Creating a safe environment for curricular innovation 4:054:30 Session 404 HH 1108 404a Programming is failure Stanislav Sokolenko, Chemical Engineering Elaine Lillie, Jeff Nagge, Cynthia Richard, and Nancy Waite, School of Pharmacy Session 405 HH 2104 405a Conducting teaching and learning research at UWaterloo: Tips and templates for navigating the ethics approval process (Part 1) Julie Joza and Sacha Geer, Office of Research Ethics 5 Minute Transition 4:355:00 404b Reinforcing the research cycle through student consultations Rachel Figueiredo and Sandra Keys, Library 405b Conducting teaching and learning research at UWaterloo: Tips and templates for navigating the ethics approval process (Part 2): Question and answer session Julie Joza and Sacha Geer, Office of Research Ethics 5 Minute Transition Closing Remarks by Dean of Environment, Jean Andrey Wine and Cheese Reception HH Don Craig Atrium