Celebrate and recognize the great work that your colleagues are doing. Nominate them for the Innovation of the Year Award 2019. See attached flyer for criteria and nomination form.

PURPOSE OR GOAL:

The purpose of the Innovation of the Year Awards is to recognize College employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that positively impacts the learning of students in the College.

ELIGIBILITY:

All employee groups (full and part-time faculty, administrators and support staff) are eligible for nomination.

CRITERIA:

Criteria to be used for judging the merit of an innovation and its impact on students’ learning are:

Creativity: The selected innovation will be as original as possible or be a unique adaptation of an existing program, process or concept.

Effectiveness: There is evidence that the innovation leads to a better process for accomplishing a task(s).

Replication: The significant components of the innovation selected can be replicated in other institutions with a minimum of difficulty. The description of the program will include any conditions necessary for replication. Timeliness: Innovation will not be more than five years old in the institution, but it must have been in existence long enough to have been tested.

Currency: There is evidence that the innovation is current in content and adaptive to technological applications as appropriate.

Collaboration: The innovation may demonstrate that a considerable collaboration effort has occurred between school/ or college teams.

Quality: Students and/or staff agree that the innovation increases quality in the course program, office or institution. Evidence of quality may include student ratings or letters of support for colleagues.

The Innovation must have a positive impact on students’s learning.

NOMINATIONS:

Nomination forms must be signed by two members of the College community and accompanied by:

1. A 200-word description of the innovation.
2. Rationale for nominating the innovation.
3. Objective/purpose of the innovation.
4. Impact of the innovation.
5. The role/contribution of the innovation to Humber and other community colleges.
6. Endorsement by division director/dean, associate dean/manager.

Welcome to the Centre for Teaching and Learning and Humber Libraries’ celebration of Open Education Week (March 4-8, 2019).

What is Open Education?

In the spirit of open, the definition below is a remix of the definition authored by the Open Education Consortium (2018, CC BY 4.0):

Open Education seeks to scale up educational opportunities by taking advantage of the power of the internet, allowing rapid and essentially free dissemination, and enabling people around the world to access knowledge, connect and collaborate.

Open allows not just access, but the freedom to modify and use materials, information and networks so education can be personalized to individual users or woven together in new ways for diverse audiences, large and small.

This sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built. 

People can connect with others they wouldn’t otherwise meet to share ideas and information. Materials can be translated, mixed together, broken apart and openly shared again, increasing access and inviting fresh approaches.

Anyone can access educational materials, scholarly articles, and supportive learning communities anytime they want to. Education is available, accessible, modifiable and free.

Want to learn more? Go to openeducationweek.org/page/what-is-open-education and ecampusontario.ca/oeweek2019.

In practice, Open Education involves creating and sharing educational content under an open license such as the Creative Commons license. Stay tuned to learn more about Creative Commons in tomorrow’s post.

On the latest episode of the NEXTcast podcast, available free on Soundcloud and iTunes, we speak with Geoff Lachapelle, eSports coordinator and Game Programming lecturer, about the educational value of competitive gaming.

Nestled in the LB building at Humber’s North Campus is a competitive gaming space, designed for closed private practice sessions and competition in an effort to create an efficient and effect training space for competitive student gamers.

“What video games can do, at their core, is show you how to create better practice tools, better improvement tools, how to look at your performance in whatever you’re doing, and be constructive and critical with yourself on how to improve.” – Geoff Lachapelle

Listen to the episode or read the transcript here.

NEXTcast is a podcast about teaching and learning at Humber College, created by Humber Press and The Centre for Teaching & Learning. New episodes go up on Soundcloud and iTunes every second week.

To suggest a future guest or topic, email Humber Press at humberpress@humber.ca.

Kristin Valois
Humber Press

Humber Libraries and Humber Galleries present: Exhibition Education Guides

We welcome you to explore Humber Galleries’ art exhibitions paired with current Humber Libraries collections. Each exhibition is organized around a theme or idea, and each education and media guide includes information on the curator, artists, and art works, as well as discussion questions, activities, lesson plans, and resources within Humber Libraries which engage these ideas in the classroom. Topics so far have included alternative approaches to education, Indigenous resurgence, diasporic identity, climate change, and more!

These LibGuides were researched, written, and designed by Humber Galleries’ Communication and Curatorial Assistants Diana Jaber and Jacqueline Simpson, with research by Communication and Curatorial Assistant Tracey Prehay, guided by the Humber Galleries team and with Humber Libraries support.

Contact Acting Curator Danica Evering to discuss ways of bringing your classroom to the exhibition and using our education guides into your classroom at danica.evering@humber.ca.

See the latest guide for The Breadth of Distance, curated by Curator in Residence Alize Zorlutuna, here.