Centre for Teaching and Learning

Western challenge explores, demystifies AI tools

Jun 12, 2025

Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning is using a weekly challenge to encourage exploration and deep thinking about artificial intelligence (AI). The Generative AI Challenge is a free, eight-week project designed to help participants “untangl …

STLHE returns to showcase teaching, learning

Apr 27, 2016

This summer, Western, in collaboration with Fanshawe College, will host the 35th annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), from June 21-24. Many Western faculty have been long-time members of STLHE, Canada’s pre-eminent...

Teaching Support Centre names three new fellows

Sep 3, 2015

Developing an e-portfolio tool, promoting collaborative learning in Engineering and creating a network of faculty who engage students in critical international service learning will be the focus of the three new teaching fellows at Western’s Teaching Support Centre....

Spotlight turns to teaching at conference

Aug 28, 2015

The students of today are somehow ‘different’ than they were 30 years ago … but how? Do they approach the university with a different set of goals? Do they have different expectations? How do they learn? Western Psychology professor Mike Atkinson will explore these...

Fischer: Taking learning outside the classroom

May 21, 2015

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Spring 2015 edition of Reflections, The Teaching Support Centre newsletter. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. When you think about the most important learning experiences of your life, where did they take...

New role to strengthen technology, teaching

Jan 22, 2015

Technology has always played a prominent role in Gavan Watson’s world. He remembers his first laptop in 1996, and being immediately drawn to what he could accomplish with the tool. As a PhD student at York University, he created an online learning management tool for...