B4
Concurrent Session B4
Teaching with Technology and Navigating the New Normal
Time: 2:10 - 3:10 PM
Location: TBD
Bringing archives to life through immersive media experiences
Based on a case study of an immersive media experience developed for an introductory course in the School of Professional Communication in Fall 2023, this presentation explores the affordances and constraints of immersive media as a teaching-learning tool. The presentation will offer participants an overview of the potential benefits as well as the challenges of developing customized immersive experiences for and with students, including the capacity of such experiences to engage multiple senses, prioritize active learning, foster critical thinking, and facilitate the integration of faculty SRC into courses. The presentation will focus on an immersive media experience that was based on my archival research on nuclear imperialism in Canada and Japan. The experience was designed for the Immersion Studio at TMU Library’s Collaboratory and was integrated into CMN210 - Text, Image and Sound. The presentation includes an overview of workflows and tools as well as a discussion of implications for student-led learning and considerations for the design of courses and assignments involving immersive media.
Presenters
John Shiga is an Associate Professor in the School of Professional Communication in The Creative School where he teaches courses on urban media, knowledge translation, science communication, and communication for social change. His research engages with a range of topics including intellectual property, the history of audio media, musical memory, media and the environment, intellectual property, interspecies communication, ocean sound and Cold War military-science. His current research and creative projects focus on the politics of underwater sound in the context of the Cold War.
Dynamic Digital Learning Approaches: Maximizing Educational Impact
This concurrent sessions is a “call to action” to forge a proactive strategy where TMU’s practitioner-expert educators team up with their students so they thrive in navigating the New Normal in our AI world. In teaching Industrial Engineering’s Data Analytics open elective courses at The Chang School, and by leveraging competency-based, skills’ acquisition teaching practices, students learn technical data science skills in an AZURE-based, online learning sandbox environment and perform virtual hands-on, real-work weekly data analytics activities and final projects. The impact on academically conscientious students is that, with their journey from zero knowledge to their attainment of technical and analytical data analytics proficiency, that students are reporting back to us that they are being hired into junior data analyst roles. To thrive as adults in our AI world, commencing in the 2024-2025 academic year in The Chang School’s instructor-led Full Stack Developer Certificate, students will formally learn computer programming language and scripting skills to code and build full-stack built websites (front-end, middleware and back-end development), followed by applying their recently developed practical skills and the industry-adopted AI Assisted Coding tool, Github CoPilot powered by CODEX to evaluate, debug, test and correct their code, and then modify it in order for the code to compile and run.
Presenters
Dr. Ceni Babaoglu is an Assistant Program Director in Data Science. She supports the implementation, delivery, and quality assurance of Data Science certificate programs, ensuring academic excellence and program currency across different curriculum formats. With a background in Applied Mathematics, she has previously held positions as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics. Her current research interests focus on statistical machine learning, data mining, and deep learning, with several research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and collaborations with industry partners. As a subject matter expert in Data Science, she has developed video lectures and online course materials for various data analytics courses. These resources are currently utilized in certificate programs and have benefited a large number of students. She teaches degree credit data science courses in both certificate and MSc programs, providing professionals with upskilling opportunities in the field. Additionally, she supervises students on their Big Data Analytics Projects and acts as the second reader for M.Sc. Data Science Major Research Projects. She has presented at prestigious conferences such as the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) Conference and the TMU Learning & Teaching Conference. Her expertise in online learning and experiential learning in data science courses has been well-received by the academic community. The approach she has implemented in the Chang School's data science courses has garnered positive student feedback, resulting in successful student outcomes, including acceptance into graduate programs and employment in the data analytics industry. You can find more about her on her website: cenibabaoglu.com, Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/cenibabaoglu/, Twitter: twitter.com/cenibabaoglu, Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/cenibabaoglu
A TMU Make Your Mark Innovation Award, a TMAPS Teaching Award and a GREET Teaching Award recipient, Anne-Marie Brinsmead currently serves as Program Director for Engineering, Architecture & Science (STEM) at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University. She performs oversight of one part-time undergraduate degree, ten labour market responsive professional continuing education certificates, including two degree credit Data Analytics, and Practical Data Science and Machine Learning certificates. All but two of the certificates are fully online. She is a labour market researcher and specialist on labour market and competency-based skill shortages in English speaking countries between now and 2040. For over thirty years, without missing a semester, she taught university degree credit courses at The Chang School. She is the granddaughter of a Kickapoo tribe nôhkom (grandmother), the latter of whom resided in Northeastern Kansas.
Dr. Tamer Abdou holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University and specializes in Software Engineering. His research focuses on mining historical project data and applying techniques from data mining, artificial intelligence, and statistical analysis. Dr. Abdou aims to create explainable AI solutions that empower practitioners and researchers to maintain high-quality software processes with cost-effective resources. His work has received notable attention from the industry and has been implemented by leading firms such as Mozilla Corporation and IBM CAS Canada. Dr. Abdou is an Assistant Program Director of Data Science at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he contributes to developing and instructing data analytics certificates and data science courses.
A drawing is worth a thousand lines of code
In this proposal I would like to present my experiences with various forms of teaching communication skills, in particular the ways in which drawings perform important connections between individuals both in the classroom and beyond the classroom. I will be building upon how studio based instruction and environments have been transforming with a focus upon the ways that traditional methods of drawing are now becoming mimicked in fascinating ways with certain types of accessible technology by students. In my presentation, I am not proposing an innovation per se, rather, I am proposing that there is a convergence occurring (has it already occurred?) between traditional tools used in the representation of ideas through drawing and contemporary tools of drawing. It may be speculated that the convergence between traditional drawing (pen and pencil on paper etc.) and digital drawing (tablet with smart pen and various software etc.) is strengthened paradoxically by offering a duet-like experience with the students over what is perceived to be the realm of traditional (time-intensive and based on years of practice) drawing and other ways of drawing.
Presenters
A lifelong drawer, Drew has been teaching at TMU since 2000 and enjoys seeing the ideas of students develop as they utilize various tools in their 2D and 3D works. Professional degrees in two drawing-heavy disciplines help inform his way of thinking and seeing (Architecture and Interior Design) yet his first passion is the bridging of the left and right sides of the mind that only the comics format enables.
Session Details
Time
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM
Venue TBD
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