Communities of Practice

Join a Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Community of Practice to learn and share experiences with colleagues across campus.

This community of practice is a collaborative and collective learning space to connect, capture, and share our learning, thoughts, and experiences with EDIA in teaching and learning practices. In this participant-driven space, we aim to explore our understanding of the diverse human experience in post-secondary contexts.

This community of practice is a participant-driven online space dedicated to sharing experiences, strategies, and resources among academic staff and instructors who teach online large enrolment courses. The group was created to provide a space for community members to support one another through post-pandemic teaching and learning in large student cohorts.

The Learning Technology Forum is a space to share different ways we use learning technology as a part of our teaching and learning in the University of Calgary community and to connect with other members of the community. Learning technology is a broad category, but the focus of the forum is on the tools instructors use to engage learners and evaluate learning. 

The TI and Libraries & Cultural Resources have collaborated on the development of a new online community of practice (OCoP) for open educational practices at UCalgary. This online community of practice is a space for educators, staff and students to share open educational practices, pedagogies and resources.

Extended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term referring to virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as other immersive environments. This community of practice is a space where instructors using extended reality in their teaching can come together to connect, share experiences, good practices and resources, and to help to foster innovative teaching practices across UCalgary.

Any instructor who teaches (or is interested in teaching) with any form of computer-aided tool, from phone-based Augmented Reality to full Virtual Reality setups, is encouraged to join the community, as is any member of the campus community who helps support these types of efforts. 

A network of 200+ champions from different faculties and departments @UCalgary. This group consists of individuals with diverse backgrounds, expertise and roles, including in-house tech support/ instructional designers, teaching & learning leaders/ associate deans and departmental program administrators.