
PEARLS will be hosting a Mobile Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching (MoSI) at the University of Windsor from July 12-16, 2021. MoSIs are intensive multi-day…

Join us on Thursday March 25th from 3:30 – 4:30PM for our next PEARLS Seminar “Interactive engagement in the remote-teaching era – why we should…

Dr. Cameron Proctor and Dr. TJ Hammond will be speaking about “Using Gather.Town in Teaching” on Friday March 12th from noon to 1PM. To join…

All are welcome to our PEARLS Seminar “Motivating durable learning – focused attention through instructional design” which will be taking place on Tuesday, March 16th on Microsoft Teams from 3:30PM…

All are welcome to our first event of the semester “Publishing your teaching,” which will be taking place on Thursday, February 25th on Microsoft Teams from 2:30PM – 3:30PM….

Active learning online brings new opportunities for student engagement. Here is a resource compiled by Columbia University that provides simple strategies that combine active learning…

Congratulations to our PEARLS grant winners! Dr. Tranum Kaur, “Developing real world clinical scenario based engaging and experiential learning method for Clinical Biochemistry course” Dr….

Many of us are trying to design an online course for the fall that provides an experience as close to in-class, face-to-face instruction as we…

On Tuesday May 12th, PEARLS members gathered for an online discussion on how we can offer labs for online courses. Ms. Ashlynne O’Neil from the…

Now that everyone is musing about how their courses might work online, we are sharing a few resources that might be helpful. A very basic…

Active learning methods narrowed the achievement gaps significantly in both exam scores and passing rates between overrepresented and underrepresented student groups. Read the summary here: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-underrepresented-college-students-benefit-techniques.html And the…

PEARLS has funds available for faculty members in the Faculty of Science who wish to implement teaching and learning projects. These grants will support educational projects that…

First-Year Seminars (FYS) are a great way for faculty to engage students on fun and interesting topics that demonstrate their expertise and passion to a…

On Jan 16th 2020, our first workshop of the New Year; DIY: Design Your First-Year Seminar in Science took place in Essex Hall 335. Thank…

Celebration of Teaching Excellence are awards presented by the Centre For Teaching and Learning. We would like to recognize all recipients of teaching awards in…

The PEARLS December Workshop was held on Thursday Dec 5th 2019. We would like to give a huge thank you to everyone that came out…

All are welcome to the December event in the PEARLS workshop series that will be taking place on Thursday, December 5th in Essex Hall Rm….

The PEARLS Inaugural Workshop was held on Thursday Nov 7th 2019. A huge thank you goes out to everyone that came to our event to…