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Building Brilliance - Showcase 2025
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Lakeshore Campus

Innovative Learning invites Humber faculty and staff to our annual SHOWCASE event, celebrating teaching and learning innovations.

Join us for this full day conference that begins with a presentation featuring our Innovation of the Year Award recipients, followed by a keynote address by Dane Jensen, acclaimed speaker and author. The day also includes concurrent sessions, lunch, exhibits, poster sessions and a closing reception that provide the Humber community with an opportunity to network with colleagues and win great prizes, including a signed copy of Dane Jensen’s book, “The Power of Pressure.”
Date: Thursday, June 5Location: Lakeshore Campus

This year’s SHOWCASE theme, Building Brilliance, encourages us to rethink and enhance the way we teach, collaborate, and create meaningful change in education. Humber is responding in creative and purposeful ways—accelerating innovation, enhancing efficiency, and equipping learners with the skills needed to drive economic and social progress.

KeyNote Speaker

Dane Jensen

CEO, Third Factor

Dane Jensen is an acclaimed speaker, media commentator, educator and author.

He is a top-rated instructor at Queen’s University in Canada and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has contributed to the development of thousands of leaders in companies of all sizes through his company Third Factor.

Dane works extensively with coaches, athletes, leaders, and Boards throughout the Olympic and Paralympic sport system to enhanced competitiveness.

Dane’s book, The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t The Problem, It’s The Solution, was called “the best book I’ve read on pressure and performance” by championship-winning NBA head coach, Nick Nurse.

To learn more about the speaker, visit the Third Factor website

SHOWCASE AGENDA 2025

Click here to download the complete Conference Program

TIME DESCRIPTION
8:00am – 9:00am Registration
9:00am – 11:00am Conference Opening
Innovation of the Year Award Presentations
Keynote Address by Dane Jensen
11:00am – 11:15am Transition to Sessions
11:15am – 12:15pm
Session Block 1
  • Rebuilding CYC Practice
  • Simulation-Based Learning to Build Resilience in Behavioural Science Students
  • “And then it went horribly wrong!” How to make thesis research fun.
  • Re-imagining Learning Experiences with the Idea Lab
  • Igniting Global Learning through Collaborative Online International Projects
  • Hacking Hackathons: Leveraging Industry Challenges for Experiential Learning
  • Brilliance in the Everyday: Hidden Innovation at Humber
  • Lets Get Organized ! Reimagining Learning through the Labour Movement
  • Instructors’ Perspectives on AI in Higher Education Learning Settings
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 1
    • LT1: Collaborative Testing: Rethinking Assessment to Build Brilliance
    • LT2: Lego City Crisis: A Creative, Hands-On Public Relations Simulation
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 2
    • LT: Personalizing Learning with CBE: Insights from Health Sciences and Wellness
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 1:45pm Exhibits
Poster Session
1:45pm – 2:00pm Transition to Sessions
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Session Block 2
  • Is this a Game to You? ! Turning course content into a (fun !) game.
  • Design Dash: The PLAR Sprint Workshop
  • In Transition: Co-Creating Solutions for International Graduate Employability
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Technology & Sustainability
  • Navigating Post Secondary Spaces: Black Students Voices
  • Indigenizing Education: Student-Teacher Collaboration and Co-Learning
  • The Fashion History Project: A Cross-Disciplinary Digital Archive
  • Testing Assumptions Through Applied Research – Is It For You?
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 3
    • LT1: Campus as a Canvas – Student Belonging through Art
    • LT2: CCBI and Humber Galleries Fellowships
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 4
    • LT1: Customizing Micro-Credentials: Tailored Learning for Industry Impact
    • LT2: Challenges in E-textile for Bio-Potential Monitoring
    • LT3: Building Brilliance Beyond Borders: Global Learning with Humber IDI
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 5
    • LT1: Greening the Screen: Embedding Sustainability into Film Education
    • LT2: Humber’s Sustainability Vision: how to engage with climate action
3:00pm – 3:15pm Transition to Sessions
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Session Block 3
  • Introducing a new digital tool to understand the health of the Humber River
  • Digital Doorways: Virtual Previews to Support Experiential Learning
  • Game On ! Playful Pedagogy and Learning Through Board Games
  • Student Community Standards Discussion: Revised Code & Addressing Behaviours
  • Suicide Risk Assessment: Simulation-Based Learning for Difficult Conversations
  • Student Panel: Well-being in Learning Environments
  • Universal Design for Learning Enthusiasts: Coaching for Inclusive Teaching
  • Designing for Doing: A Competency-Based Approach to Curriculum Development
  • From Admin to Researcher: A First-Time Journey of Professional Growth
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 6
    • LT1: Expanding Educational Design Through Blind and Neurodivergent Perspectives
    • LT2: COIL – An International Look at Care and Services for People with Dementia
    • LT3: PhD Community of Practice: Growing Research Culture Through Collaboration
  • LIGHTNING TALK GROUP 7
    • LT1: ReThinking Research with Librarians in the Copilot seat
    • LT2: Building in the HLOs
    • LT3: Developing a Shared AI Literacy Guide for Humber Polytechnic and U of GH
4:15pm – 5:00pm Closing Reception
Networking
Raffle and Prize Giveaways
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