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The Teaching and Learning Centre's Instructional Support team offers a variety of programs, events, and training to instructors, staff, and teaching assistants at Ontario Tech. We invite you to join us to develop your abilities and confidence as an educator, refine your instructional design skills, and connect with your colleagues and community.

Instructional Workshops and Webinars

Instructional Workshops and Webinars

Indigenization Community of Practice

Indigenization Community of Practice

UDL Community of Practice

UDL Community of Practice

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Programming Highlight <br/>September 2026

Programming Highlight
September 2026

Connect with your colleagues at the Let's Play Faculty Learning Community 

As part of Ontario Tech University’s Teaching Scholar in Residence (TSiR) program, current TSiR recipient Dr. Eric Rapos will be facilitating a year-long Faculty Learning Community (FLC) for faculty and staff involved in teaching and learning.

The Let's Play FLC will focus on role reversal as a tool for empathy and connection with students. We will explore how the unconventional medium of board games can serve as a catalyst for reflection, discussion, and pedagogical experimentation.

  • Are you looking for a community of like-minded educators to discuss teaching innovation?
  • Are you interested in receiving professional development funding to support a teaching innovation project?
  • Do you enjoy in-depth pedagogical conversations with colleagues — preferably over lunch?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the 2026–2027 Let’s Play FLC may be for you!

Register by September 11

Certificate in University Teaching Program

The Certificate in University Teaching program brings expertise and experiential learning to the development of teaching practices. Explore principles and theories of adult education and student-centred teaching with opportunities to apply the knowledge in your own practice.

  • Instructor Stream: Open to full-time and sessional instructors, postdoctoral fellows, and doctoral students.
  • TA + Staff Stream: Open to master's students, graduate teaching assistants, and staff members.

Register by September 15

September 24: Pedagogies in Practice Discussion

What becomes possible when we rethink how we teach?

We seek to answer that question at Pedagogies in Practice, a discussion series that explores how educators are rethinking teaching, learning, knowledge, identity, and belonging in higher education.

At our first session, Teaching Through Indigenous, Anti-Racist, Decolonial, and Intersectional Perspectives, we bring four scholars from four distinct traditions together in conversation to explore what teaching could look like.

  • When: Thursday, September 24; 10 a.m. to noon.
  • Where: Online delivery (Google Meet).

Come curious. Leave with possibilities.

Learn More and Register

Workshops and Webinars

Our workshops and webinars cover a wide range of instructional topics. Here's a preview of this month's sessions:

  • Monday, September 14: First Day Toolkit for TAs
    • Open to teaching assistants.
  • Monday, September 21: The Weight of the World: Supporting Students through a Trauma-informed Lens
    • Open to instructors, staff, and teaching assistants.
  • Tuesday, September 22: Open Educational Resources 101: Start Here
    • Open to instructors, staff, and teaching assistants.
  • Friday, September 25: Canvas “Refresh”: What’s New and What’s Next
    • Open to instructors, staff, and teaching assistants.
  • Tuesday, September 29: Assessing Authentically: Alternatives to Traditional Assessments
    • Open to instructors, staff, and teaching assistants.
Learn More and Register
Student Programs

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The Teaching and Learning Centre facilitates a revolving series of workshops covering a wide variety of topics. The workshop schedule is updated each semester based on emerging topics and audience interests, so check back often!

Instructional Workshops

  • Explore instructional workshops on topics ranging from course design and inclusive teaching to assessment, artificial intelligence, educational technology, and learner engagement.

Workshop Archive

  • View past workshop topics and descriptions.

The TLC offers professional development certifications and training to members of the Ontario Tech community interested in enhancing their instructional skills.

Certificate in University Teaching (CUT)

  • The Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) program brings expertise and experiential learning to the development of teaching practices. It runs from September to April and is designed for instructors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate teaching assistants, and doctoral and master's students.

Facilitating Academic Support and Training (FAST)

  • The Facilitating Academic Support and Training (FAST) program is intended for staff members who design and deliver training sessions, workshops, and other programs, and are seeking to enhance their facilitation skills.

In the TLC's Incubator and Institute programs, participants can address questions or challenges in their roles through collaborative, indepth, and interactive explorations of topics of interest. 

Course (Re)Design Institute

  • Are you preparing to teach a new course or looking to refresh an existing one? Offered annually in June, this intensive and collaborative program guides instructors through the course design process, helping them create engaging, aligned, and student-centred learning experiences.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Incubator

  • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Incubator is a six-week program in which participants aim to improve learning and investigate problems of practice by implementing optimized teaching practices based on research and evidence.

Open Educational Resource (OER) Incubator

  • The Open Educational Resource (OER) Incubator is a five-week program that provides a collaborative space for interested participants to learn the basics of OER and open licensing, explore best practices for curating open materials, and begin creating an open resource.

A community of practice (CoP) involves a group of people (community) with a shared concern, problem, or interest (domain) working together to fulfil individual and group goals (practice).

Indigenization and Decolonization CoP

  • Members of the Indigenization and Decolonization CoP generate ideas, seek feedback, and share resources and stories related to Indigenizing and decolonizing content, instructional approaches, and interactions.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) CoP

  • The Universal Design for Learning CoP explores guidelines for implementing UDL principles, inclusive instructional design, instructional multimedia design, and accessible instruction to reduce barriers in any learning environment.

Throughout the year, the TLC hosts events and campaigns based on all things teaching and learning. Watch this space to join us at our recurring and one-time events!

Conference on University Teaching and Learning

  • Join your Ontario Tech community at our annual Spring conference to connect, converse, and celebrate instructional excellence and innovation at our institution.

New to Ontario Tech Orientation

  • Each summer, New To Ontario Tech orientation introduces new instructors and teaching assistants to teaching techniques and strategies, educational technology, the student experience, and more!

Open Education Events

  • Members of the Ontario Tech community are invited to attend events and programming hosted by the Open Education Lab throughout the year to learn about open education and how they can contribute to the movement on our campuses and beyond.

Past Events

Let's Get Generative!: A GenAI Coffee Chat

  • On July 21, the TLC hosted an open, informal gathering of Ontario Tech colleagues to explore how GenAI is shaping their work in the classroom and beyond.