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Shifting Perspectives

By Leelan Farhan, M.I. candidate, Faculty of Information Currently in its second year, Prof. Geoff MacDonald’s fourth year psychology seminar, Special Topics in Social Psychology...
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Connecting Research to Reality: How an organization hopes to revolutionize consumption...

By Leelan Farhan, M.I. candidate, Faculty of Information Outside of someone’s own field or specialty, the world of research can seem unreachable, its findings resembling...
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Gaming the System

Technology has the power to transform, transport, illuminate and educate, and when it’s put into students’ hands, hands-on learning can reach a whole new...
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Making A Mark: The rise of innovation and collaboration in Canada’s...

As with every discipline, engineering is faced with unique challenges when it comes to teaching, establishing learning goals and bringing those goals to life....
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Designing Active Learning

Olivier St-Cyr’s approach to teaching favours active learning techniques, focusing more on student engagement activities than traditional lecturing. So much so, that St-Cyr, an...
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The City as Classroom

As an institution with roots in the community for almost 200 years, U of T has grown and evolved along side the city of...
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Educator Exchange

Instructors may stand alone in front of a class, but they aren’t alone as educators. The Educator Exchange series provides a space for the...

The Role of Compassion and Understanding

In March 2020, the University of Toronto moved to an entirely online/remote teaching environment in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Instructors, staff and...

Catching up with U of T’s Teaching Fellow, 2016-2017

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