Latest series: Teaching in the era of gen AI
It's no secret that generative AI is disrupting higher education as we know it - how will teaching and learning adapt?
Join co-hosts Jasmine Parent and Adam Finkelstein as they break down some key considerations for gen AI in the classroom, explore teaching strategies with instructors, and tackle the big issues with senior academic leaders.
Episodes
Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025
30 min
Join us for a conversation with Management Prof. Tatiana Lamoureux Gauvin as we delve into sustainable approaches to course design, focusing on social sustainability, workload management, and efficiency. Discover practical strategies for evergreening your course content, and ensuring it remains relevant and engaging for students.
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Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
29 min
How can sustainability be integrated into a Hispanic literature course to offer students a modern twist on classic texts? Prof. Cristina Carnemolla and PhD student Daniel Salas describe how they designed a course to engage students with historical texts and contemporary issues through diverse formats like recipes and conduct books, making these texts relevant to today’s students in novel ways.
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Feb 17, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
26 min
How can sustainability be seamlessly integrated into an engineering course? Prof. Daniele Malomo and PhD student Anna Wang discuss their redesign of a concrete structures course. They share pedagogically sound strategies for embedding sustainability into the curriculum, engaging students with real-world examples, and fostering ethical design practices.
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Feb 3, 2025
Feb 3, 2025
27 min
How can we transform our world through education? To change everything, we need everyone. Prof. Blane Harvey and PhD candidate Stephanie Leite describe the critical role of a holistic approach to sustainability education. Discover insights from McGill’s Sustainability Education Fellows program and learn how innovative course design has the potential to make a lasting impact.
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Nov 25, 2024
Nov 25, 2024
33 min
Have students’ perceptions of engagement changed after the Covid-19 pandemic? Is it harder to focus on lectures in the “attention economy” with overwhelming amounts of information designed to engage us to click and scroll? Are students engaging with learning in ways that are more autonomous—such as watching recorded lectures? In this episode, we speak with Kai Gutteridge and Lavínia Travassos to learn about their experiences with engagement and learning on McGill’s campus today.
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Series themes
We cover a different topic in each series, featuring voices from across the McGill / higher ed community
2: Strategies for assessment for learning
3: Promoting engagement in learning
4: Course design with sustainability in mind
5: Teaching in the era of gen AI
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