Honorary Member Founding member and essential contributor

Robert Cassidy

SALTISE Executive Member

Dawson College, Montreal

Academic Dean

SALTISE Lifetime Award Recipient

Education and background

PhD, Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

B.Sc., Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Expertise

Student-centred pedagogies
Pedagogical design
Design & implementations of pedagogical innovations
Institutional policies and procedures to support the implementation of AL pedagogies

Projects:

Research Practice Partnerships
Leveraging new paradigms and disruptive technologies to successfully orchestrate pedagogical change, a project funded by Social Science & Humanities Research Council – College Community Social Innovation Fund (SSHRC-CCSIF). It is a multi-institutional, inter-provincial, team of researchers, practitioners and corporate partners currently investigating how best to promote the scaling of evidence-based pedagogies and leverage the affordances of educational technologies to support collaborative learning.

Papers

How Teachers Implement Active Learning: Typologies of Orchestrational Flow

Featured

Author: Elizabeth S. Charles, Jim Slotta, Robert Cassidy, Michael Dugdale, Kevin Lenton and Chao Zhang | Source: CSCL Proceedings | Year: 2019

La co-conception pour engager collègues et étudiants dans les pédagogies actives en physique

Author: Rhys Adams, Kevin Lenton, Elizabeth S. Charles, Chris Whittaker, Michael Dugdale and Robert Cassidy | Source: Presented at the Association pour la Recherche au Collégial (ARC) colloquium at the 86e Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) Conference | Year: 2018

Awards

SALTISE Lifetime

2019 SALTISE Conference