Now in its third year, Teaching and Learning Month at Queen’s (May–June) brings together teaching and learning events from Faculties, Schools, and Support Units, providing a shared focus for showcasing innovative practices and fostering collaboration. Organized by the Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, the month highlights Queen’s commitment to student learning and academic excellence.
Teaching and Learning Month provides a platform to recognize teaching excellence, share ideas, and strengthen Queen’s learning community.
This year we are delighted to have Dr. Danny Liu from University of Sydney, join us from Australia to deliver the keynote address.
Are we asking the right questions around AI in education?
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 9:00 - 11:00 am EST
Hybrid Event: This event can be viewed online or in-person.
Conversations around AI in education usually circle around assessment and integrity. This is critical, but perhaps more foundational questions exist around learning, thinking, and being in a world where AI is rapidly affecting work and life. In this session, we will explore some of the deeper questions that seem to be surfacing, three and a half years on. We will take the focus away from just AI and examine learning and human agency, and the structures that promote or restrict their development in a contemporary higher education context. We will explore core questions including what we value, what we measure, and what we incentivise, to challenge ourselves to think about the core ֱ of education.
Dr. Danny Liu
Dr. Liu is a molecular biologist by training, programmer by night, researcher and faculty developer by day, and educator at heart. A multiple international and national teaching award winner, he is Professor of Educational Technologies at the University of Sydney where he co-chairs the University's AI in Education working group and leads the Cogniti.ai initiative that puts educators in the driver's seat of AI.
Selected Publications
- The impact of generative AI on health professional education: A systematic review in the context of student learning. Med Educ. 2025;59(12):1280-1289.
- Supporting Pre-service Teachers’ Understanding of Behaviour Management Using Chatbots. Social Education Research, 7(1), 34–48. 2025
- Talk is cheap: why structural assessment changes are needed for a time of GenAI. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(7), 1087–1097. 2025
- Integrating generative AI and load reduction instruction to individualize and optimize students' learning. Learning and Individual Differences, Volume 121, 2025, 102723, ISSN 1041-6080,
2026 Teaching and Learning Month Events
| Date and Time | Description |
|---|---|
| Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am |
Last Lecture with Dr. Eleanor MacDonald In this “last lecture”, Eleanor MacDonald draws on insights from a range of political theoretical frameworks in order to reflect on the lecture as a site of learning/teaching. Rejecting the characterisation of the lecturer as a “sage on the stage”, MacDonald offers alternative metaphors to represent the work that we do when we lecture, and to inspire us to rethink how we understand the educational encounter that is possible in a lecture-based course. |
| Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 9:30 - 1:00 pm |
Showcase of Teaching and Learning at Queen's The Showcase for Teaching and Learning has established itself as the stage for educators across campus to share their classroom innovations. Educators at all stages of their careers and with backgrounds in all kinds of teaching environments, will explore our theme for this year’s event: Assessment for Learning. |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 1:30 - 3:00 pm |
Revising your Teaching Dossier This workshop is designed for educators who are in the process of updating their teaching dossiers for renewal, tenure/continuing appointment and promotion. Participants will explore the essential components of an effective teaching dossier, learn strategies for documenting and showcasing their teaching effectiveness, and develop a clear action plan for assembling materials that demonstrate their commitment to pedagogical excellence. |
| Thursday, May 28, 2026, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm |
QHS Celebration of Education Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning This full-day event will take place in-person, on Queen’s Kingston Campus on May 28th, 2026, 9:00am – 3:00pm. The day will be a celebration of the innovative educational work occurring across QHS, including a plenary session, poster presentations, oral presentations, workshops, lunch, and refreshments. Registration is free for QHS members. | |
| June 2 - 3, 2026, 8:45 am - 12:00 pm |
Smith Engineering Dean's Showcase of Teaching and Learning This full-day event will take place in-person, on Queen’s Kingston Campus on May 28th, 2026, 9:00am – 3:00pm. The day will be a celebration of the innovative educational work occurring across QHS, including a plenary session, poster presentations, oral presentations, workshops, lunch, and refreshments. Registration is free for QHS members. | |
| June 3, 2026, 1:00 - 4:00 pm |
AI in Teaching and Learning Forum 2026 Join the Queen's AI Nexus for an energizing half-day symposium where curiosity meets innovation: hear a candid State of AI at Queen's from university leadership, roll up your sleeves in a collaborative Wicked Ideas workshop tackling real challenges alongside your colleagues, then wander an open Ideas Fair with light refreshments in hand, where faculty and staff share what they actually tried, what worked, what didn't, and what they wish they'd known sooner. |
| June 8 - 9, 2026, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm |
Educational Support Professionals' Retreat The ESP Retreat is a space to come together as a community to share, reflect, and learn from one another’s work. Grounded in a spirit of collaboration, the retreat highlights the diverse ways we are navigating challenges, advancing innovation, and evolving our practices across the ESP landscape. This event invites all educational support professionals at Queen's to participate. If you think that's you, please email us at ctl@queensu.ca. |
Resources and Online Learning Opportunities
Centre for Teaching and Learning
The best plan for your course is the plan that sits comfortably with you—a plan that makes the most of past approaches and materials while leveraging the best strategies and technologies for your course context. This self-assessment tool will prompt reflection on your strengths and recommend some resources that meet your needs.
Online modules have been developed by the CTL and with other departments on campus to provide you with resources that fit your schedule.
Topics include:
- Group Work
- Faculty Positionality Statements
- EDI in Pedagogy and Practice Modules (co-created with the Human Rights and Equity Office)
The Ed Tech Toolkit is designed to support educators and educational support staff in selecting, comparing, and finding information related to various ed tech tools in use at Queen's.
Tools include:
- Feedback Fruits
- Turnitin
- onQ
Past Teaching and Learning Months
Keynote Session
Shifting from Punitive to Pro-Active Approaches to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
Guest Speaker: Sarah Elaine Eaton, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
This session is about shifting away from a punitive mindset when it comes to academic integrity to set up students for success in and beyond the classroom. There is no question that teaching, learning, and assessment have changed since generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and similar apps have become ubiquitous over the past few years. We can be ethical or unethical about how these tools are used in our classrooms and beyond. In this session, we’ll talk about student, faculty, and leaders’ responsibilities for upholding and modeling academic integrity in ways that set up students for success today, tomorrow, and beyond.
This session is not about how to use specific tools. Instead, we will delve into the broad ethical and practical implications of AI for education and business. A key takeaway from this talk is how academic integrity provides a foundation for ethical decision making beyond the classroom, in the workplace and in everyday life.
Schedule of Events
| Date and Time | Upcoming Event |
|---|---|
| Thursday, May 8, 2025 |
Colloquium on Story and Narrative in Research Faculty of Education |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
Showcase of Teaching and Learning at Queen's Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Wednesday, May 21, 2025 |
Enriching Student Learning with Library Collections & Collaborations ֱ Library |
| Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
Update your Teaching Dossier for RTP/RCAP Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Thursday, May 29, 2025 |
Shifting from Punitive to Pro-Active Approaches to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI Office of the Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) |
| Tuesday, June 3, 2025 |
Dean's Showcase of Teaching and Learning in Engineering Smith Engineering |
| Available all month |
Respectful Collaboration Module Library Queen's Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship |
| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
The Essentials of Clinical Teaching Queen's Health Sciences |
More events will be added soon!
Welcome Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joe Kim, McMaster University
We are pleased to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Joe Kim from McMaster University. Joe Kim is an Associate Professor in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour and is actively involved in the science of teaching and learning.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
2:30-4:30pm | Psychology of Focusing on What Really Matters
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
10:00-11:30am | KEYNOTE: Using Cognitive Principles to Motivate Durable Learning in Students
11:30am-12:30pm | Lunch (provided)
12:30-3:00pm | Science of Delivering Powerful Presentations
Schedule of Events
| Date and Time | Upcoming Events |
|---|---|
| Thursday, May 2, 2024; 8:30am – 2:30pm | Showcase of Teaching and Learning at Queen’s | Centre for Teaching and Learning |
| Monday, May 6, 2024 | 2nd Annual Competency-based Assessment Symposium | Smith Engineering |
| Thursday, May 9, 2024; 2:00 - 4:00pm | The Gender-Friendly Post-Secondary Classroom - Two Part Workshop Series (Virtual, open to QHS Faculty) | Faculty of Health Sciences |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2024; 10:00 - 11:30am | Graduate Supervision Lecture with Dr. Amy Warren, Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Dean of Graduate Studies, Memorial University (for faculty members only) | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2024; 12:00 - 2:00pm | The Gender-Friendly Post-Secondary Classroom | Smith School of Business |
| Wednesday, May 15, 2024; 1:00 - 3:00pm | A Conversation on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Business Education | Smith School of Business |
| Thursday, May 16, 2024; 1:00 - 3:00pm | Ask Me Anything with Experts from the Centre for Teaching and Learning | Smith School of Business |
| Tuesday, May 28, 2024; 2:30 - 4:30pm | Psychology of Focusing on What Really Matters with Dr. Joe Kim | Office of the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning |
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024; 10:00 - 11:30am | Using Cognitive Principles to Motivate Durable Learning in Students with Dr. Joe Kim | Office of the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning |
| Wednesday, May 29, 2024; 12:30 - 3:00pm | Science of Delivering Powerful Presentations with Dr. Joe Kim | Office of the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning |
| Thursday, May 30, 2024; | Dean's Showcase of Teaching and Learning Engineering | Smith Engineering |