Senate Learning & Teaching Committee

General Purpose

Identifies, prioritises and acts upon issues from across the University related to the promotion of an effective and comprehensive educational environment. The Committee may initiate activities that address specific issues or develop and make academic policy recommendations to Senate where appropriate.

Reporting

The LTC reports directly to Senate regarding its regular business. It directs to the AGPC recommendations regarding policy changes or changes to its terms of reference or composition.

Reports to Senate
Report of the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee, 2009-2010 [pdf]
Report of the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee, 2010-2011 [pdf]
DRAFT: Sub-Committees Plans and Goals, 2011-2012 [pdf]

Composition

Chair: Chris Evans, Vice Provost Academic

Members: See attached list [pdf]

Sub-Committees

Much of the committee work is conducted by a cross section of the Ryerson community within sub-committees formed and through the sharing of outcomes with the larger SLT group. There are six sub-committees working on different projects for 2011-2012. If you would like to join any of the sub-committees please contact the chair of the sub-committee.

Academic Integrity

Chair: Donna Bell, dbell@ryerson.ca
The Academic Integrity Sub-Committee was formed in 2004. This committee addresses issues of concern to faculty surrounding student academic conduct and methods to reduce misconduct. In addition this committee focuses on creating resources for faculty to assist with the reduction of misconduct on campus.

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Experiential Learning

Chair: Katherine Penny, kpenny@ryerson.ca
Experiential learning allows the needs and preferences of individuals to be met by providing learner-centred, accessible, purposeful learning. Building knowledge through a process of discovery provides opportunities for progression in social and scholarly development. The Experiential Learning Committee’s mandate is to model and disseminate best practices in experiential learning across the university.

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Information Literacy

Chair: Don Kinder, dkinder@ryerson.ca
The mandate of this committee is to create a culture of information literacy at Ryerson. By identifying instructors who are already embedding information literacy skills into programs and courses the committee aims to create an inventory of best practices and also develop programs and tools that will empower instructors to incorporate information competencies into their courses by working collaboratively with librarians and drawing on the expertise of their own peers.

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Inclusive Learning

Chair: Gretchen Bingham, gbingham@ryerson.ca
The sub-committee started meeting in 2007 to explore ways in which the Ryerson community could better respond to learning with an inclusive lens. The initial question posed was: What is inclusive education and how do we create inclusive learning environments? Through a series of discussions with sub-committee members and faculty, it was decided that a simulation experience would be developed in collaboration with the Interpersonal Skills Teaching Centre (ISTC).

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Writing & English Language Proficiency Working Group

Chair: Christina Halliday, challida@ryerson.ca
The Writing & English Language Proficiency Working Group is responsible for identifying student academic writing and English language skill development needs and, in response to those identified needs, making recommendations regarding faculty and teaching assistant development, program development across campus, and academic policies.

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Effective Use of Technology

Chair: Restiani Andriati, restiani@ryerson.ca
The goals of the sub-committee is to introduce Social Media and Web 2.0 tools to faculty and instructors; how these tools can be used to enhance students learning; debunking the notion that these tools are scary and cannot be used for teaching. Another goal is to promote resources available to Ryerson community.

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