2025 Program

Collective Growth: Cultivating Meaningful Change

From May 5 to 9, celebrate teaching and learning at the 16th annual Celebrate Learning Week. This year’s showcase will feature a week of exciting events, including open lectures, workshops, panel discussions, asynchronous activities and more.

Please see below for a detailed schedule and to register for sessions.

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UBCV KEYNOTE: RAJIV JHANGIANI

Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University

Designing for Justice: On Navigating Change as a Critical Pedagogue

May 6, 2025 | 10:30am – 12:00pm | Online

From pandemic pedagogies to the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, post-secondary educators have recently had to manage the destabilizing effects of much uncertainty and change. In this presentation we will consider some ways in which educators and institutions can embrace and support meaningful change that serves our core mission to widen equitable access, empower learners, cultivate critical consciousness, and lead societal transformation.

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UBCO KEYNOTE: DAVE CORMIER

Learning in a Time of Abundance

May 9, 2025 | 9:00am – 10:30am | Online

Our education systems were designed to solve the problem of information scarcity. We collected information in books, created artifacts like essays to prove that we knew how to find and handle that information and our schools were often the only places where that information could be found. The information technologies of the last 30 years have changed all of that. Information is now more abundant than ever before. Learners can access information with little or not effort. At the same time, the world is more complex and uncertain. What does this mean for post-secondary education?

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Program Schedule

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  • Fostering Neurodiversity Affirming Teaching Approaches

    May 21, 2025
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    1:00 pm
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    2:30 pm

    Online This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025. In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to neurodiversity as an umbrella concept, and the impact of neurodivergence on student learning. Together, we will consider how to foster a neurodiversity affirming classroom environment. We will explore…

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