August 2026 Sessions for Faculty | The Teaching & Learning Centre | Seneca Polytechnic

Teaching & Learning Conference 2026 – Day 1

Tuesday, August 25

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Newnham Campus

Theme: Conference Opening & Artificial Intelligence

• Opening keynote
• Artificial Intelligence tools
• Artificial Intelligence and academic integrity
• Artificial Intelligence and assessment
• Hands on workshops such as prompting, agentic AI, etc.

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Teaching & Learning Conference 2026 – Day 2

Wednesday, August 26

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Newnham Campus

Theme: Curriculum Integration & Implementation

• Coffee chat with Marianne Marando, Vice-President Academic
• Program Quality session
• Curriculum Integration (CI) research overview and discussion
• CI implementation sessions and workshops across priority areas

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Centralized Academic Appeals & Academic Integrity Committees Kickoff Meeting

Wednesday, August 26

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Newnham Campus

For faculty members participating in these committees

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Teaching & Learning Conference 2026 – Day 3

Thursday, August 27

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Newnham Campus

Theme: Teaching Practice, Supports & Tools

• Closing Keynote
• Teaching, learning, and classroom practice
• Hands-on workshops, including online proctoring, teaching in Flex, classroom technologies
• Showcases for SoTL, OER, and XR
• Service fair (e.g., ITS, Libraries, Privacy, OER, Sandbox)

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Micro-teaching Sessions

Thursday, August 27 & Friday, August 28

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

virtual

Theme: Student Engagement

Mandatory for new full-time faculty but open to all faculty members and instructors

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On-campus Coffee Chat

Wednesday, September 2

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Seneca@York Campus

Coffee Chat with Marianne Marando, Vice-President Academic

On-campus Coffee Chat

Thursday, September 3

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

King Campus

Coffee Chat with Marianne Marando, Vice-President Academic

New Faculty Orientation

Wednesday, September 9

4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

virtual

Mandatory for new full-time and non full-time faculty, but open to all faculty members and instructors

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