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2024 Fall Newsletter

September 23, 2024

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Finding Our Own Ways: COED Fall Meeting 2024

Friday, October 25, 9 am to 4 pm ET (online via Zoom)
Register on Eventbrite ($15, $0 for students or precariously employed individuals)

As Ontario educational and curriculum developers, we are navigating many challenges. GenAI is coming into higher ed at a time of institutional austerity measures due to the Ontario provincial government cutbacks in funding and a tuition freeze that began in 2019 and will continue for at least another three years during a moment of significant inflation. With this comes the precarity of employment in our field and larger enrollments. How do we take care of ourselves, meet the needs of our institution, manage emotional labour, and move forward with our missions to enhance pedagogies (particularly inclusive pedagogies)?

Join Ontario educational and curriculum developers and our plenary speaker, Dr. Maha Bali, at the COED Fall Meeting 2024 to reflect, discuss, and collaborate about our challenges, opportunities, and strategies for continuing our work in higher education.

Pre-Fall Meeting Events

Stay tuned for various pre-fall meeting events organized by the community

COED | EDNA Workshop: Setting boundaries as an educational developer: Your wellbeing matters

Friday, October 18, 2024, 12:30 to 2:30 pm ET (online via Zoom)
Register via Zoom

Facilitated by Christopher Laursen, Council of Ontario Educational Developers (COED) & Cosette Lemelin, Educational Developers Network of Alberta (EDNA)

This workshop is a unique opportunity for EDs in Ontario and Alberta to engage in cross-country peer support in identifying boundary pinch-points, i.e., the moments that test your ability to set boundaries. This synchronous online workshop will not be recorded. Participants will have both anonymous and optional opportunities to share experiences, and to discuss strategies to set boundaries to protect our health and wellbeing in our ED roles.

Curriculum CoP Fall Meeting Pre-Session

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 1 to 4 pm ET (online)
Join the listserv for registration details as they become available

COED Fall Elections: Chair-Elect Nominations

Nomination Deadline: Tuesday, October 1, 2024, closes 11:59 pm ET

With fall elections approaching, we encourage you to consider nominating a colleague or yourself for the position of COED Chair-Elect for the upcoming year. You also have the option to nominate one or more individuals as co-Chair-Elects! These nominees can come from the university sector, the college sector, or a combination of both. We have witnessed the incredible synergies that occur on the executive team. We strongly encourage members from both sectors to consider stepping into the Chair-Elect position(s)!

Visit the “COED Executives” webpage for a history of COED’s formation and information about current and past executives. Learn more about the exec positions from the COED Past Chair Video (7:07, transcript txt). Please reach out to the current COED Execs (Mel, Brian, Samantha, Christopher, Mercedes, and Shirley) if you have any questions and/or curiosities about the COED Chair-Elect role.

Election Process

  • All COED members are invited to nominate or self-nominate individuals for the position of Chair-Elect. No one can be nominated without their consent.
  • Each nominee should submit a photograph and a short biographical statement (about 100 words) to the COED Elections account elections@coedcfpo.ca by 11:59 pm ET on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
  • Each nomination is confirmed by the current Past Co-Chair, Mel Young, via email.

Note: The COED Fall Elections membership voting will take place between October 7 and 18, 2024.

Fall 2024 Important Dates

Bookmark and visit the ”COED Important Dates” webpage for a list of upcoming events. We look forward to connecting with you at the following Fall 2024 events.

COED Programming

  • Fika Friday: September 27, November 29
  • Fall Elections: October 7 to 18
  • COED | EDNA Workshop: October 18
  • Fall Meeting: October 25
  • Co-Mentorship: December 6

Communities of Practice

  • Access and Accessibility in Educational Development ActLS Meeting: October 29, December 3
  • Curriculum CoP Meeting: September 24, October 24 (Fall Meeting Pre-Session)
  • Experiential Learning CoP: October 10, November 7
  • GenAI CoP: October 8, December 5
  • Graduate Student Development CoP: November 4, December 2

For upcoming Action Learning Sets and Communities of Practice sessions, please contact the leads of active groups. If you have an idea for a group that would appeal to the COED community and is not on this list, feel free to contact the COED Executive.

Questions about COED? We would love to chat with you. Please email us at communications@coedcfpo.ca.

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