SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

Thursday May 9th, 2019

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Surrey, Cedar Board Room 2110

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AGENDA 1. Call to Order…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….David Burns 2:00pm

2. Confirmation of Agenda………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…….2:05pm

3. Approval of Minutes, April 4th, 2019………………………..…………………………………………………………………...…… 2:07pm

4. Chair’s Report………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….David Burns 2:10pm

5. Vice Provost Teaching and Learning Report………………………………………………………………..…Stephanie Chu 2:20pm

6. Action Items:………………………………………………………………………………………………………...........................……………………

6.1 Thought Exchange Communication Plan Update: What questions do we ask? ..................................................................................................David Burns 2:30pm

6.2 DFW Living Document:

What do we say with the DFW information we have? …………………………..…………...........…..David Burns 2:50pm

6.3 Update on Concerns around Atypical Assessments……..…............……David Burns/Christina Page 3:10pm

7. Items for Discussion

3:25pm 7.1 Meeting Frequency………………………………………………………...................………………..…David Burns

7.2 Transition Plan Chairship………………………………………………….....................……………..David Burns 3:35pm

8. Adjournment...............................................................................................................................................3:45pm

Next meeting May 30th, 2019 Surrey Cedar Boardroom

SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING Thursday, April 4th, 2019

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Surrey Campus Boardroom, Cedar 2110

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Present: (Quorum=6) Non-voting Members

Heather Clark Carolyn Robertson (online) Louis Saumier Demers Christina Page Nancy Norman

David Florkowski Robert Ironside

David Burns (Chair) Deepak Gupta Gina Buchanan, (designate for Stephanie Chu)

Regrets: Senate Office Guests:

Farhad Dastur Melody Geddert Lee Boudier Carole St. Laurent Reza Khakbaznejad

Sarah Dunn, Administrative Coordinator

1. Call to OrderThe Chair called the meeting to order at 2:09pm 2. Approval of AgendaMotion that the agenda be accepted with 6.1 on the agenda moved to the first item of business Motion by Louis Saumier Demers Second Christina Page

The motion carried. 3. Approval of Minutes March 07, 2019.David Florkowski moved the minutes be accepted as circulated. Second Louis Saumier Demers.

The motion carried.

4. Chair’s Report4.1. ACTION ITEM Thought Exchange………………………………………………………..…………………….

The Chair discussed the utilization of the Thought Exchange platform for this project. The process would involve asking a set of 3 or 4 stimulating questions. The results would provide some data analysis. This tool was used for the strategic plan. Action Item: the Chair will prepare a Thought Exchange communication plan. Gina Buchanan and David Burns volunteered to be the points of contact for this initiative.

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4.2 ACTION ITEM DFW dashboard……………………………………………………………………………………

Christina Page provided a handout titled Resources to Address High Failure Rates. The Committee also discussed possible suggestions for the self-study guide for program review, and the possibility of setting future benchmarks for DFW rates.

Action item: Produce a short living document with contacts, feedback, and links to send out to Faculties.

4.3 ACTION ITEM Committee members collecting resources……………………………………. The Committee discussed ways in which resources can be provided to Departments that could assist in address courses with problematic DFW rates.

5.0 Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning Report

In absence of the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning, Gina Buchanan, was present for any questions/inquiries.

6.0 Items for discussion:

6.1 Draft Policy and Procedure RS5, Intellectual Property The Committee discussed the ways in which the proposed policy might incentivize research, the lifecycle approach to IP, implications for creators, owners and users, the link between the collective agreement and KPU Policy, the importance of considering IP before a project begins. The Committee recommended that the policy not refer to specific procedures (on the grounds that these will change), that the policy might not fit well in contexts in which more than one employee group is involved.

3:03pm Motion to move in camera by Roberti Ironside. Seconded by David Florkowski. 3:09pm Motion to leave in camera by Louis Saumier Demers. Seconded by Heather Clark. Motion to adjourn the meeting by Christina Page. Seconded by Robert Ironside.

7.0 Meeting adjourned 3:16pm

VPTL May 2019 Report

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Vice Provost Teaching & Learning: Report Report for the Senate Standing Committee on Teaching & Learning (SSCTL)

S. Chu May 1, 2019 (for the period of March 29 to April 30)

NEWS • Welcome to Kathy Leung, Communications & Events Specialist who started with us on April 17! • Thank you to Christina Page, Kaitlin Kozslowski & Adam Vincent who ended terms as Educational Consultants. • Welcome, Gordon Cobb & Seanna Tackas as our new Educational Consultants.

SELECT MAY & JUNE EVENTS See our events calendar for current info & registration.

Intercultural Teaching Competency: 3-day Workshop May 23, 28 & 29 (Surrey) Building Interactive Content with H5P May 8, 11:00- 12:00 (Online) Online Collaboration Tools & Strategies: May 8, 1:00 - 2:00 (Online) Engaging Students with Video - Kaltura Part 1 May 14, 10:00- 11:30 (Surrey) May 15, 1:30- 3:00 (Richmond) May 16, 1:30- 3:00 (Langley)

Faculty Bootcamp – Conflict 101 May 16, 10:00- 11:30 (Surrey) May 16, 3:00 - 4:30 (Langley) Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW): 4-day Workshop May 27 - 30, 8:30 - 4:30 (Richmond) Learning with ePortfolios: 2-day Workshop June 11 & 12, 9:00- 3:30 (Surrey) Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW): 4-day Workshop June 17 - 20, 8:30 - 4:30 (Surrey) Using PowerPoint to Design Effective Slides for Learning June 26, 10:00 to 12:30 (Surrey)

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SELECT ACTIVITIES

EXTERNAL

• Communication with Dave Heidebrecht, Manager, Office of Community Engagement, McMaster University regarding tracking community requests (L. Petrillo)

• Completed Social Impact survey for Social Impact Canada (L. Petrillo) • Coordinating projects with Kwantlen First Nation (L. Petrillo) • Expanded partnership with Kwantlen First Nation, bringing in new faculty members from History, Fine Arts,

Marketing, Interior Design and Sociology (L. Petrillo) • KPU Representatives, Social Impact Initiative, Universities Canada (L. Petrillo) • GLOW - Women in Global Education - participated in PD event and networking dinner (L. McCannell) • Networking Lunch with BCIT and Capilano Reps (L. McCannell) • Collaboration with BC colleagues on professional development opportunities for new(er) faculty (G. Buchanan) • Judging Panel for Beedie Luminaries Scholarships (D. Burns) • Attendee of pilot capstone presentations at North Delta Secondary (D. Burns) • Participating in UBC MOOC on Indigenization and De-colonization (L. McCannell)

INSTITUTIONAL/CAMPUS-LEVEL

• KPU’s 3rd Symposium on Teaching, Learning, Scholarship & Research: Best of KPU • Metwith Student Rights office to assist in video production (R. Leung) • Literature review on competency-based admission to health programs for Faculty of Health (D. Burns) • Internal meetings for Carnegie Community Engagement Classification (Canadian Pilot) (L. Petrillo) • TOR developed for KPU Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Working Group (L. Petrillo) • Phone call with Reza Khakbaznejad, Chief Information Officer, regarding tracking community work (L. Petrillo) • Conversation about the K-12 Curriculum changes (individual sessions): ACA (1); Arts (2) (N. Norman)

KPUs 3rd Annual Symposium: Field Trip of Richmond Farm

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• K-12 workshop for School of Design planning and preparation for May 22 event (N. Norman)• SSCTL Committee member & attendee (N. Norman, G. Buchanan)• Attended Public Relations Students Fundraiser Event (L. McCannell)• Continued collaboration on the review/revision of the self-study program review guide (G. Buchanan)• Contributing to FSH committee and collaborating on review and potential revisions (G. Buchanan)• Overhead transition project (L. Waddington, R. Leung, J. Zhang, M. Mohammed, G. Buchanan)• Teaching, Learning, Scholarship & Research survey to faculty & educators under development with IAP & AVPR (S.

Chu)• Learning Technology Stats:

SEMESTER # OF CONSULTS Fall 2018 74

Spring 2019 106 Growth + 32 (43%)

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT • L. McCannell:

o Developed excel spreadsheet for Faculty to use to conduct an assignment audito Contributed to development of Pressbooks prototype that embeds professional skills into assignmentso Built a digital skills audit tool in Moodle to help faculty assess student's foundational professional skills o Developed Moodle site to support participants in the Building Professional Skills in the Classroom Project

PRESENTATIONS/EVENTS/WORKSHOPS • Moodle Training for Traditional Chinese Medicine Faculty Development Day (J. Zhang)• Mahara ePortoflio Training for ACP faculty (L. McCannell & J. Zhang)• Proposal for 2019 ETUG Accepted. Title: Learner Experience in Virtual Reality: Exploring the Design of Virtual

Reality for Education (J. Zhang, M. Mohammed)• New to Moodle workshop for Arts (M. Mohammed, R. Leung)• Podcast workshop – Ed Media Program (R. Leung)• Smartphone Video production workshop – Ed Media Program (R. Leung)• Workshop facilitators, moderators & planning committee members for KPU’s 3rd Symposium (all members of the

TL Commons, some multiple sessions. Symposium report to come, separately)

FACULTY/DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM-LEVEL

• Communications with various departments regarding community partners (L. Petrillo)• Group Educational Consultants Meeting (L. McCannell)• Presented Building Professional Skills Project to BUSI Dept. meeting (L. McCannell)• Developed and delivered Intercultural Development Inventory for TLC (L. McCannell)• Presented on ePortfolios to ESLT class (L. McCannell)• Presented Building Professional Skills Project to CMNS Dept. meeting, School of Business Chairs, School of

Business Faculty Council (L. McCannell)• Continued collaboration with Marketing re-development of the TLC website (G. Buchanan)

SEMESTER TICKETS CLOSED Fall2018 469

Spring 2019 574 Growth +105 (22.3%)

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• Developed and delivered a half day session for faculty on Building Professional Skills in the Classroom (L. McCannell)

• Helped with the design and delivery of 3-day Intercultural Teaching Workshop with Kyra Garson and EmmaBourrassa (L. McCannell)

• Planning commenced for a workshop for Communications and PR Department Meeting (G. Buchanan)• Participated in Effective Slide Design Workshop (L. McCannell)• Participated in Wordpress KickOff Session (L. McCannell)• Participated in Educational Development Brown Bag luncheon (L. McCannell)• Administrative Assistant & Administrative Coordinator searches underway (S. Chu, Chair; L. Waddington)• Communications & Events Specialist search completed (S. Chu, Chair; L. Waddington)• Provided administrative support for the Intercultural Teaching Competency Workshop (G. Buchanan)• Chair consultation for workshop (ANTH) (K. Dukewich)

COURSE/INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL

• Communication with faculty members in Psychology and Biology about experiential learning (L. Petrillo)• Communication with SDG Fellows regarding their fellowships (L. Petrillo)• Met with a Faculty Member to consult on supporting diverse teams• Conducted 8 individual IDI debriefs (L. McCannell) and several with TLC team members (G. Buchanan)• Faculty consultations on how people think & learn; what a seminar is; objective grading; rubrics; learning

outcomes & slide design (K. Dukewich)

SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON TEACHING AND LEARNING Agenda Item: 7.1 Meeting Date: May 9th, 2019 Presenter: David Burns

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Agenda Item: Proposed SSCTL meeting frequency

Action Requested:

Motion to Approve Discussion Information Education

Recommended Resolution:

THAT SSC Teaching and Learning will meet on a __________________ basis.

Senate Standing Committee Report:

Context & Background:

Key Messages:

Consultations: 1.

Attachments: 1.

Submitted by: David Burns, Vice-Chair of Senate

Date submitted: May 1st, 2019

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Agenda Item: Transition Plan, Chairship,

Action Requested:

Motion to Approve Discussion Information Education

Recommended Resolution:

THAT the Chair seeks advice on the transition plan to a new chair.

Senate Standing Committee Report:

Context & Background:

Key Messages:

Consultations:

Attachments:

Submitted by: David Burns, Vice-Chair of Senate

Date submitted: May 1st , 2019