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2025 Spring Newsletter

April 7, 2025

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Save the Date! Monitor-Side Chat with HEQCO

Friday, May 9, 2025, 12 pm to 1:30 pm (ET), Zoom

Register for the HECQO Chat

Join us for a Monitor-Side Chat with Ryan Tishcoff from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)—a virtual gathering for educational developers across Ontario’s colleges and universities.

In this interactive session, Ryan will share insights into HEQCO’s recent and upcoming research on teaching and learning, equity, student experience, and system performance. More importantly, this is your opportunity to share what matters most to educational developers across the province.

What are your burning questions? Where do you see research gaps? What support do developers need to better serve instructors and students?

This is a lunch-friendly session—COED members are encouraged to bring their lunch, listen in, and join the conversation!

Let’s build bridges between research and practice and shape the future of higher ed together.

Membership Questionnaire, due June 1

Membership Survey

The purpose of the questionnaire is to gather data to better support the professional development and networking goals of our membership. We will collect your name to help us identify who is joining us, and other information to ensure COED opportunities and gatherings are meeting your needs. We are interested in the work you are doing, projects you are working on, and ideas you have that you might want to showcase. We will share the summarized membership data in the next fall meeting (October 24, 2025). We will not share your data with anyone else without your prior written consent. We’d appreciate if you can complete this survey by June 1, 2025 so that we can use this information in planning our Fall Meeting content. Click here to complete the survey.

New Community Building Feature: Find Me at COED

We’ve created an interactive map of COED members and their organizations to facilitate opportunities for cross-organization collaboration. Click here to access it. If interested, please enter your location and contact details and a link to your organizations’ Teaching and Learning landing page and/or contact list.

  • Step 1: Click the Plus sign at the bottom
  • Step 2: Search for your institution, then replace the Title line with your name
  • Step 3: Upload an avatar, photo, favourite image, or take a photo
  • Step 4: Add title, project, specialization under “write something beautiful”
  • Step 5: Post!
  • Optional Step 6: Invite someone close by for a conversation and beverage!

Accessibility Features

  • On a web browser, click on the right-facing arrow (▷) in the right-hand menu to access a slideshow of all entries on the Find Me at COED map, which will open in a new tab in your web browser.
  • On a phone, the right-facing arrow (▷) to access the slide show may appear through the three dots in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
  • On that page, access the Accessibility Settings via the circle icon with a person with arms outstretched. On a phone, this may be located through the three dots in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. There, you can choose keyboard shortcuts, high contrast mode, and reduced motion.
  • We can provide a PDF of the listings upon request to our e-mail, exec@coedcfpo.ca. Please let us know if you need any further information from the Find Me at COED map.

Join us this Spring! Upcoming COED Community Events

Visit (and bookmark) COED’s “Important Dates” page for a list of COED community events, including:

COED Spring Programming

Action Learning Set (ActLS) and Communities of Practice (CoP)

  • Access and Accessibility in Educational Development ActLS Meeting: April 8
  • Curriculum CoP Meeting: April 29, May 27, June 24, July 29
  • Experiential Learning CoP: April 24, May 22, June 26
  • Graduate Student Development CoP: May 5, June 9

The Generative Artificial Intelligence CoP will be planning upcoming dates. If you’d like to join, you can visit their Google Group (you may be prompted to log into your Google account). On the right-hand side, click the small “Join” icon (next to the star) and ask to join group. We will approve your request within 2 working days and you will then have access to the group.

The Indigenous Education CoP also will be announcing further dates, which will be updated on our website page (linked below).

Want to connect with the COED community on specific topics? Consider joining one or more COED Action Learning Sets (ActLS) and/or Communities of Practice (CoP). COED ActLS and CoP co-leads can email COED to add meeting sessions to the COED website.

Contacting COED

Become a COED member to subscribe to the COED listserv.

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

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