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2025–2026 Sessions

DesignEd offers a series of sessions on various topics related to teaching, learning, course design, media development, and other key skills for teaching in higher education. Sessions are held on the second Friday of the month. Check out our upcoming and past offerings below:

📅 Upcoming Workshops

Check back later for our 2026 session!

📚 Past Workshops (click to expand)
Integrating Sensitivities to Indigenous Matters into Teaching and Learning

Dr. Cathy Richardson Kineweskêw discussed her goals as the Chair of Indigenous Healing Knowledges at Concordia University. Her work focuses on decolonizing the classroom through dignity-centered practices, working in circle, centering Indigenous and marginalized knowledges, and exploring how to attend to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations. She also emphasized cultural safety and creating inclusion and belonging in classrooms and workspaces.

Presenter: Dr. Cathrine Richardson Kineweskêw

Using Structure to Promote Student Engagement

As instructors, we often have a vision of how we want students to engage with us, with the material, and with each other. Then, we get to the classroom, and students don’t always engage in those ways. In this session, Dr. Cait Kirby used the window of tolerance as a framework for understanding how emotional dysregulation can result in a lack of engagement. Discussions included strategies for leveraging structure to support student regulation and promote engagement.

Presenter: Dr. Cait Kirby

Incorporating Reflection into Your Courses

Reflections are commonly used as a graded or non-graded course activity. This session explored the benefits, challenges, design considerations, and practical examples.

Presenters: Dr. Anushka Ataullahjan, Assistant Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
Najmeh Keyhani, FHS Curriculum Specialist

Using AI to Facilitate or Enhance Your Teaching

Join us for a peek into how other faculty members are using AI in their teaching. You'll also get the opportunity to try some tools yourself.

Presenters: Dr. Andrews Tawiah
Najmeh Keyhani
Julie Whitehead

Decolonizing Evidence-Based Healthcare

This session applied decolonial and Indigenous lenses to evidence-based healthcare and explored intercultural counseling strategies.

Presenter: Dr. Jaris Swidrovich

Clarifying Policies on Scholastic Offenses & Academic Considerations

A detailed overview of academic considerations, student absences, plagiarism, AI, and exam policies.

Presenter: Dr. Andrew Johnson

Health Professions Education from a Justice Lens

This session examined how curricular choices impact students from equity-deserving groups, with scenario-based problem solving.

Presenters: Dr. Tal Jarus & Dr. Hiba Zafran

Interprofessional Education (IPE)

What is it? Why do we need it? Ways to incorporate IPE into courses.

Presenters: Dr. Laura Brunton & Najmeh Keyhani

Flexible Assessments: Why, How, and Examples

Presenters: Dr. Sean McWatt & Najmeh Keyhani

Teaching Supports from the DesignEd Team

Presenters: Najmeh Keyhani, Julie Whitehead, Dave McNulty, Gelila Ayele