Teaching isn’t what it used to be.

Neither is learning.  Both faculty and students struggle to engage with complex content, environments, technologies, assessment criteria and program requirements – as well as demands from their social, professional and personal communities.

Our job is to help Sauder staff and faculty create excellent teaching and learning experiences, which may or may not use technology. We provide consultation and expertise in the planning, development, design, delivery and evaluation of  engaging and effective programs and activities for business education.

Find out more about the Learning Design Cycle .

Our academic and real-world experience resolve challenges inherent in teaching in a variety of settings (including online and blended courses) with a wide range of learners.

Teaching Activities and Strategies

Helping students build knowledge, skills and networks to succeed in business calls for teaching strategies that support participatory, interactive, collaborative and social learning activities. This kind of constructivist approach not only facilitates learning that sticks – it also helps students develop critical communications and team-based skills that employers demand.

We work with faculty and lecturers as consultants and coaches to provide personalized, just-in-time support for their teaching portfolios. The Learning Services team provides individual consulting, design and action research services to help meet most needs. If we can’t help, we’ll  find someone who can, through resources at CTLT or beyond.

Curriculum Development

Sauder, like other schools, is working to establish effective and efficient procedures for curriculum development and assessment practices that will help us maintain and enhance our ranking as a global leader in business education.

In addition to meeting this challenge, changes in teaching environments (such as new large classrooms) and stakeholder expectations (related to graduate outcomes) are driving demand for revisions to existing curriculum.  New programs are also creating a need for curriculum design and support.

Our consultants can offer guidance, support and design services to faculty and staff, to help them meet administrative and pedagogical challenges related to curriculum development.

Shooting the Breeze

We know that sometimes, faculty just need to chat – about whatever is going on in their courses, their classrooms, their research or their labs.  We love that – and we’re here when you need us.  Call, write or drop by anytime.