T-15: Program-Level Innovations in Teaching and Learning

In response to the growing demand for flexible and engaging learning experiences, the Desautels Faculty of Management launched McGill University’s first blended learning initiative. With support from McGill’s Teaching and Learning Services and Desire2Learn, over 19 blended courses have been successfully implemented. Feedback from more than 1000 student survey responses demonstrates high satisfaction, as well as positive perceived impacts on stress levels and time management. Challenges such as reduced motivation and concentration and difficulty asking questions were also noted. This session will explore effective course design strategies, student and faculty experiences, and recommendations for enhanced blended learning in higher education.

Program outcomes are clear statements of the knowledge, skills, and values that students will be able to develop by the end of a given program of study. Program outcomes help to enhance a shared sense of curricular priorities, guide curricular decisions, and more. This session introduces a suite of self-serve materials that you can draw on if you wish to develop program outcomes in your milieu. These materials were developed to offer more autonomy to units wishing to develop program outcomes locally, while concurrently increasing our capacity to support units. The materials can be adapted to different institutional contexts.

Discover how the interprofessional education (IPE) team at Dawson College has been building towards an embedded IPE program across their seven medical technology and social service programs. You will learn about our past and present practices in addition to how we are working to remove barriers for future IPE learning opportunities. We will present the most recent research on this topic, outline our most impactful learning opportunities to date, present our current feedback data on the impact of IPE activities from our students, and list the steps we will need to take to ultimately build our embedded IPE program.