Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology (CTLT)

Executive Director Message

Welcome to The Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology (CTLT) at the University of Winnipeg. The Centre offers support in a number of areas including:

• Faculty professional development
• Distance education/learning
• Faculty course evaluations (FaCE)
• Campus-wide academic technology integration
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Desktop web conferencing
• 24/7 Video-on-Demand streaming servers
• AV podcasting multimedia archive and dissemination system
• iLink (synchronous province-wide audio delivery for Campus Manitoba

The Centre offers professional support through teaching development initiatives, introduction and support for newer technologies to enable enhanced teaching and learning environment, innovative integration of various technology and pedagogical techniques, and support systems for excellence in teaching techniques that address different learners.

With an excellent support staff, the Centre offers:

• Faculty workshops
• One-on-one professional advice
• Technology integration support
• Content evaluation
• Multimedia development
• Curriculum development
• Development of instructional technology

We have an upgraded fully equipped professional studio with experienced technology support staff. Activities include professional presentations by on-campus and off-campus experts on various pedagogical and technological innovations in teaching and learning. Some of the recent developments include:

• Complete migration of cable Telecourses to Web-based TV
• Updating the Campus Learning Management System
  
• 3D Scanner
• High end audio and video podcasting equipment
• Web-based synchronous videoconferencing
• Brown-bag Lunch Series
• Series of pedagogy and technology workshops (70% pedagogy and 30% technology)

A number of new initiatives are evolving including, new Faculty Associates, faculty mentorship programs, and departmental roving seminars. The Centre staff is also engaged in university wide initiatives that define and elaborate academic excellence and student satisfaction.

On campus, the CTLT provides expertise in academic technologies to the main UW campus programs, Division of Continuing Education, Global College, The Collegiate, Menno Simons College, and other affiliated institutions.

UW courses are offered to students in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and around the world. While the bulk of our students are located in Manitoba, we also have had students from most provinces in Canada, the US, Spain, Ireland, the UK, and other countries.

The UW is a member of the Campus Manitoba provincial consortium - along with University of Manitoba, Brandon University, College universitaire de Saint-Boniface, the University College of the North, Assiniboine Community College, and Red River College.

We also participate in the University College of the North – Inter-University Services (UCN-IUS) along with the University of Manitoba and Brandon University. Both of these organizations have a mandate to offer degree programs to students primarily in the North.

The Centre believes in the intervention of technologies to provide an education that is Affordable, Accessible, Flexible, and Relevant. Thanks to the UW faculty and staff, we are able to provide access to education for students from different backgrounds and needs. Our students are varied (part-time, busy raising families, working in other parts of the world, disadvantaged or high-risk, mature students, or may be geographically isolated).  Supporting the current Academic Plan, the Centre also assists in providing the community with open access to selected resources. As an innovative inner-city educational institution, the Centre actively engages using our resources to network with the communities around us.

These are only some highlights of the Centre. Please feel free to browse the website and contact me or any of our staff members for further information or assistance.