For Instructors

We are committed to empowering our instructors and providing them with the resources and support they need to deliver engaging and innovative learning experiences to our students.

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Blended Learning Studio | Support for Educational Technology | Tech Library | ASB Teaching and Learning Resources | Consultation Booking

Blended Learning Studio

At the Office of Education, we are passionate about enhancing the academic experience through technology. The Office of Education offers a fully equipped blended learning studio that gives instructors a powerful video creation environment, complete with a lightboard, which acts as a forward-facing whiteboard for instructors to add notes, diagrams, formulas, and more to your presentation slides or video while you film.

The Office of Education offers a range of valuable resources, including:

  • Template slides tailored for use with the blended learning studio, to empower instructors in designing compelling and interactive video content.
  • Training programs designed to equip instructors with the skills and knowledge necessary to leverage the studio effectively, enhancing their instructional practices and student engagement.

Instructors book your training sessions here.

Support for Educational Technology

The Office of Education prioritizes purposeful and impactful technology integration. Our commitment is to help instructors develop effective teaching strategies that lead to specific learning outcomes. We carefully explore various tools and technologies to determine how they can best support your unique approach.

Examples of the various support we can provide includes:

  • Assisting in selecting and integrating the right tools for your course.
  • Ensuring seamless functionality during your classes.
  • Conducting technology needs assessment and offering pedagogical consultation.
  • Facilitating collaboration, sharing best practices and staying up-to-date with advancements.

Tech Library

The Tech Library is equped with a diverse range of educational technology resources that can be utilized during in-person and hybrid lectures. To book available hardware, please click here. 

Select devices: 

  • Catchbox: A Catchbox is a throwable microphone that enhances audience engagement during events. It allows for interactive communication by tossing the device between students.
  • Meeting Owl: The Owl Camera revolutionizes meetings with its compact design, delivering high-quality video and audio. It naturally directs the focus to whomever is speaking in the room, allowing online participants to feel like they are physically present.

Available Platforms:

  • Coursera: Coursera offers a wide range of high-quality online courses, certifications, and specializations from top universities and institutions around the world. With these resources, you can augment your curriculum and provide your students with access to cutting-edge educational materials.
  • Kritik: Kritik is a peer assessment platform designed to improve students’ higher-order thinking and critical reasoning abilities. Kritik actively involves students in their learning journeys by encouraging self-reflection and peer evaluation.
  • Riipen: Riipen is a work-based learning platform helping educators, organizations and learners collaborate on real industry projects to bridge the gap between higher education and employment.
  • Mentimeter: Mentimeter is a helpful presentation-based digital tool that allows educators to make the most of its features for teaching, including quizzes, polls, and word clouds. If you're already using presentation tools in class, perhaps on a smart whiteboard or screen, this is a really powerful version of that which could help you in class.

Reach out to busedu@ualberta.ca if there are any direct inquiries about the above offerings, platforms or devices provided by the Office of Education.

Alberta School of Business Teaching and Learning Resources

The Office of Education is focused on developing and sharing resources that address the needs of our instructors in a continually evolving learning environment.

Some highlighted resources we have developed are:

  • Experiential Learning Toolkit: find out information about what experiential learning is, the different forms it might take and the various theoretical frameworks it encapsulates to assist you in implementing this type of learning into your course.
  • Little Office of Education Library: a resource hub with a curated collection of books, articles and journals on the topics of general teaching and learning, assessment, Indigenous history and decolonization (with artwork from Leah Dorion), EDI, professional development and leadership, and more.
  • Teaching and Learning Shared Drive: the Teaching and Learning Shared Drive is a frequently updated collection of teaching resources available to all Alberta School of Business instructors. 

AI resources: 

Teaching focus resources: 

Every two months, the Office of Education releases themed resources for Alberta School of Business instructors, including curated external content.

  • Accessible Course Design: This focus offers guidance on designing accessible courses using Universal Design for Learning and Instruction principles.
  • Accommodations and Accessibility: Released after a session with the Dean of Students, this focus clarifies accommodations policies and offers tips for accessibility.
  • Assessment:This focus addresses common questions on assessment, featuring resources on peer/group assessment, multiple choice, and LMS-based evaluations.
  • Assigning Final Grades: Following a Final Grades panel discussion, this focus provides clarity on grade approval processes and includes a recording of the discussion, applicable policies, and resources.
  • Blended Learning: With the rise of blended learning, this focus explores different approaches and offers tips for large courses and a sample flipped-classroom plan.
  • Indigenization and Decolonization: Released during Indigenous Peoples’ Month, this focus provides strategies for integrating Indigenization and decolonization into business classrooms.
  • Delivering Large Courses: This focus provides tips and strategies for instructors new to teaching large courses or redesigning existing ones.

General Appointment or Consultation Booking

The Alberta School of Business Office of Education offers consultations on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

  • Assessment: Summative assessments (ex. tests, exams, question types, open-book exams, group projects, presentations) and formative (quizzes, one-minute paper, concept map, exit ticket, poll, etc.) assessment. Alternative assessments (ex. portfolios, journals, posters, videos, interviews, podcasts, performance tasks, etc.)
  • Accessibility and accommodations: Access, Universal Design for Learning, fostering communities of care in teaching and learning, navigating student accommodations
  • Course design and development: Instructional materials, learning activities, learning outcomes, feedback and assessment
  • Online and hybrid teaching: Online presence, engagement strategies, special considerations for online course design, hybrid approaches to teaching and learning
  • Educational technology (hardware and software): Access to and instruction on educational technology supported by the Office of Education (ex. Catchbox, Meeting Owl, Mentimeter). Recommendations for educational software.
  • Instructional delivery: Active learning strategies, student engagement and motivation, forms and methods of instruction
  • Large course support: Course development and planning, managing TA roles, large scale assessments, active learning, classroom management, administrative considerations, etc.
  • Learning environments: Classroom management, fostering positive relationships, dealing with difficult students, etc.)
  • LMS transition support: Support with transitioning over to Canvas, using the provided course template, etc.
  • Blended learning studio: Access to and instruction on the School of Business' Blended Learning Studio
  • Curriculum mapping: Curriculum and content of courses offered at the School of Business, typical modalities, assessment types, etc. (Currently only available to the ABA department.).
  • Presentation: to a department or unit on one of the topics above (please select the topic you'd like a presentation on)

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