Huntington University

About the Centre

A first of its kind, The Lougheed Centre for Teaching and Learning at Huntington University promotes excellence and innovation in higher learning and professional development throughout the north. In joining the campus community and the public at-large, the centre strives to foster a culture that continually implements initiatives for integration and provides opportunities for critical dialogue that spread best practices in teaching and learning in both theoretical study and practical application.

Under the guidance of the director, The Lougheed Centre for Teaching and Learning is building a community of collaboration that seeks to enhance the quality of teaching and learning through integrated communications, academic conferences and more.

The Lougheed Centre for Teaching and Learning:

• Provides ongoing leadership in teaching and learning in and within the northern landscape;
• Increases awareness and understanding about scholarship in the northern environment;
• Supports and enhances the diverse teaching contributions and learning efforts of all partners;
• Explores the unique ways of enhancing the teaching and learning experience as well as the creative strategies that
engage student, faculty and community participation;
• Annualizes opportunities for students, faculty and community partners to engage in critical discourses related to epistemology and pedagogy;
• Produces and communicates proceedings resulting from knowledge shared at conferences, workshops and other related events.

The Leadership in Northern Education Award

The Leadership in Northern Education award forms part of The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence’s strategy aimed at promoting excellence and innovation in education. In May 2010, the Centre recognized Ms Jean Hanson, retired Director of Education of the Rainbow School Board, with the first Leadership in Northern Education Award. In 2011, the award was presented to Dr. Lorraine Carter. Dr. Carter currently serves as the Academic Director at Nipissing University’s Centre for Flexible Teaching and Learning

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 Leadership in Northern Education Award.

NOMINATION CRITERIA

The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence wishes to acknowledge an individual who has succeeded in:

• Providing leadership to teaching and learning throughout northeastern Ontario
• Contributing to the scholarship of education
• Enhancing educational programs and the quality of teaching and learning
• Creating strategies to enhance teaching and learning experiences with the community

The award will be presented in part of The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence’s 2012 Conference on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS

Nomination letters, matched in detail to the criteria of the award as described above, complete with full contact information of the nominator(s) and nominee can be submitted directly to:
teachingconference2012@huntingtonu.ca

For additional information, please contact:

Lorraine Mercer
Director, The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence
Huntington University
705-673-4126 ext. 209
teachingconference2012@huntingtonu.ca

Upcoming Events

Teaching the Humanities: Reel Life, Education Unscripted
Thursday, May 3, 2012

A call for workshops is NOW OPEN for The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence’s third annual conference, “Teaching the Humanities: Reel Life, Education Unscripted”.

This one-day symposium, scheduled to occur on Thursday, May 3, 2011, will raise important questions about the pedagogical realities of this expansive academic terrain by mapping the changes and challenges of Humanities education in the face of innovations and interruptions. Hosted by The Lougheed Teaching and Learning Centre of Excellence at Huntington University, Teaching the Humanities: Reel Life, Education Unscripted will bring interesting perspectives into dialogue and will feature thoughts from students to scholars and from supporters to sceptics.

By hosting a serious of workshops, the conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various academic units that make up the Humanities today. A call for workshop proposals is being issued for this one-day conference. You are invited to submit the title and a 300-word abstract of your proposed workshop along with your choice of hosting a 45-minute or a 90-minute workshop. Abstracts should be sent to teachingconference2012@huntingtonu.ca on or before January 30, 2012.

Consider the list below as possible presentation topics to inspire your own thinking:

• 2012 and Beyond: Teaching in the Humanities in Post-Modern Times
• And, Action!: Applying the Study of Humanities through Internships and Placements
• Dividing Disciplines: Humanities versus Science
• Going Digital: Technology and the Humanities
• Interrogating Reality: Conversations on the Interdisciplinarity of the Humanities
• Methods, Means and Madness: Reflections on Research Methods in the Humanities
• Passion, Performance and Play: Engaging Student Learning across the Humanities
• Textualizing the Humanities: Definitions, Divisions and Divergence
• What Now?: Student and Teacher Vocation in the Humanities

Past Events

Graduate Information Session for Students, October 2011

Powered Pedagogy
2nd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, May 2011

Official Opening of the Centre, March 2011

Lunch and Learn Series, January 2011

“now what?” Supporting Youth Through Death and Loss
Bereavement Symposium, October 2010

Lunch and Learn Series, September 2010

Lectures and Landscapes: Diversity in Northern Higher Education
Inaugural Teaching and Learning Conference, May 2010

Launch of the Centre, October 2009