The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is the academic support unit that provides leadership and expertise in furthering the mission of teaching and learning at the University of Manitoba.

Our vision, mission and values

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning values

Collaboration, excellence, integrity, innovation, reciprocity, respect, transformative, resurgence, truth, wholism

These ten values invite conversations about how we do our shared work, both internally and with the campus community. The values represent our collective commitment to learning from, with, and about each other, a process that involves creativity, tensions, and opportunities.

The values also represent commitment to individual growth through reflection and practice; put another way, a commitment to honouring mind, body, and spirit. Taken together, the values provide a common language for our work at The Centre, and the ongoing journey towards collective well-being, reconcili-action, and justice in education.

The Centre has six key areas of practice:
- Faculty Development and Consultation
- Curriculum Development and Renewal
- Research, Evaluation and Innovation
- Flexible Learning Course Development and Support
- UM Learn and Solutions
- Strategic Projects and Programming
Vision: Every teaching experience at the University of Manitoba is optimized for learning.

Mission: Provide leadership, expertise and support for the teaching and learning mission of the University of Manitoba and to advance and advocate for the practice and scholarship of teaching in higher education.

Read The Centre 2021-2022 Annual Report

Our commitment to anti-racism

We are resolved to affirm our identity explicitly and publicly as an anti-racist academic support unit. We are resolved that our anti-racism commitment be reflected in the life and culture of the unit through our policies, programs and practices as we continue to learn about racism. We resolve to develop and work to implement strategies that dismantle racism within all aspects of our department, college, university and society.

Learn more about our equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives

Our services

We offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist instructors, teaching assistant, post-doctoral fellows.

- Classroom observation
- Customized workshops
- Course development consultations
- Learning technologies help
- UM SRI course evaluation consultations
- Creative media services
- Indigenous pedagogical resources and consultations
- Equity, diversity and inclusion consultations
- Academic integrity consultations
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) guidance
- Teaching assistant consultations
- Teaching and learning research collaboration and consultations
- Teaching dossier consultation
- Teaching strategies discussion
- Help with difficulties you are facing in the classroom

What's new

Check out our workshops

Register for a workshop

We are constantly evaluating our workshop offerings. Explore the workshops available at The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

Visit our workshops page

How to record lectures and meetings

We've created a quick guide to help you record lectures and meetings in Zoom and Webex.

Learn how to record lectures and meetings

Artificial intelligence

We have created an AI resource to help you navigate artificial intelligence in teaching.

Our teams

Teaching support

Whether you are a new or experienced instructor, graduate student, or a postdoctoral fellow starting out on your teaching career, we offer a broad range of teaching development supports that will assist your teaching. Supports include workshops and teaching programs, course and curriculum design and development, teaching handbooks, learning technology resources and academic integrity strategies.

Teaching research

Lifelong learning is important and curiosity can ignite opportunities for growth. The Research, Evaluation, and Innovation team (REI) is responsible for fulfilling the Centre’s mandate as it relates to the practice and scholarship of teaching and learning.

Learning technologies

Discover more about the learning technology tools that are fully supported by The Centre or in cooperation with Information Services and Technology. This support includes workshops, Ask an Expert sessions, troubleshooting and support documentation.

Office of Experiential Learning

The Office of Experiential Learning, within the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, serves as a gathering place for collaboration and innovation in experiential education. The Office supports a growing community of practice dedicated to sharing knowledge, fostering reflection, and enhancing experiential learning opportunities.

Instructor and student looking at a laptop.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is the commitment to upholding the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage in all scholarly activities (International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), 2013). At the University of Manitoba, we believe strongly that academic integrity is everyone’s responsibility.

Strategic initiatives and partnerships

The Centre is involved in many institution-wide strategic initiatives related to teaching and learning. These include policy creation, learning technologies, spaces research and development, teaching awards, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning awards, our signature publication TeachingLIFE as well as academic integrity.

Manitoba Flexible Learning HUB

The Centre is a strategic partner of the Province of Manitoba’s Flexible Learning HUB, an initiative dedicated to advancing, with technology, teaching and learning at the post-secondary level through the offer of innovative course design for online education.

The HUB staff is comprised of staff with expertise in instructional design and multi-media.

mbhub.ca

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Contact us

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
65 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

thecentrecontactus@umanitoba.ca

204-474-8708

204-474-7514