September 22nd, 2020
Usha James (pictured) of the Critical Thinking Consortium will be back with us for Ped Days this Fall, taking place Oct. 13-16 during the Fall Study Break. This is your chance to see Usha, who impressed the Dawson crowd at the last Ped Days in the winter. Usha will speak about and model critical thinking…
On the Faculty Hub
September 8th, 2020
Peace Week is Sept. 13-25
September 8th, 2020
Peace Week is almost here! Make sure you check out the schedule of speakers and events.
News story in the Read More link.
September 8th, 2020
Do you recognize yourself, your courses, your interests and concerns in our newly adopted Women’s/Gender Studies’ attributes? The Women’s/Gender Studies Certificates began a reflection last semester on the state of our certificate: where it began, where it is now and where we might want to go in the future. Our new certificate attributes of knowledge,…
Welcome back Dawson faculty!
August 25th, 2020
Visit the Faculty Hub website for the latest webinar schedule and online teaching resources.
In a hurry? Check out the Quickstart Guide for Teaching Remotely.
Posture and fitness are related: Joanna Farmer’s research
June 16th, 2020
During her career as a teacher of Physical Education, Dawson’s Joanna Farmer has developed expertise in teaching posture.
Click Read More to read a homepage news story about Joanna's posture research and for a link to her research article.
June 16th, 2020
Post-secondary aged youth are a social group too often consumed by uncertainty about their future and inadequate opportunities for personal fulfillment. They are immersed in questions relating to adolescence, to their current relationship with family, their community, and the overall system they live in. Known causes of stress Normal adolescent development, the climate crisis, and…
Faculty Hub supported teachers in pandemic emergency
June 16th, 2020
On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two days later, classes ended for spring break and Dawson College closed for what turned out to be the rest of the semester. Teachers and the newly launched Faculty Hub were plunged into an education emergency: completing the semester for about 9,000 students.
Click Read More for the homepage news story about how the Faculty Hub supported teachers through this extraordinary end of semester.
Faculty Hub highlights
June 9th, 2020
- Check out the self-paced tutorial Developing an Online Course. It was developed by Dawson French teacher and E-Learning Community of Practice Lead Chantale Giguère.
- Learn Moodle by following this self-paced course: Teach with Moodle (you will be asked to enter your Dawson username and password).
- Webinars continue until June 25th!
Click Read More to go to the Faculty Hub.
June 9th, 2020
In April 2019, the Board of Governors of Dawson College approved DawsonAI Initiative: an ambitious, multi-faceted three-year strategic effort to better prepare our students for a future which will be increasingly shaped by new technologies such as Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, and Big Data. The largest fraction of the approved financing is for the DawsonAI multi-disciplinary Community of Practice. CoP Fellows are faculty who meet regularly and collaborate on developing portfolios of teaching resources in…
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