This file consists of announcements of faculty members newly working in the Learning and Teaching Office, 1999, 2001, and 2008.

This internal publication for new and experienced faculty was a guide to many aspects of post secondary teaching and was adapted for Ryerson University by the editor of the same publication at the University of Manitoba. A few of the topics include instructional methods, such as teaching large or small classes ; creating tests and exams ; evaluating student work; teaching adults.

This file contains correspondence to the university faculty via internal forum networks, sent through email, primarily teachnet@ryerson.ca.

This file contains McConnell Project : Proposal/Correspondence/Awards. In June 1999 Ryerson was the recipient of a $500,000 grant, over a three year period, to support the project "Transformative Learning Through Innovative Community Experiences".

File includes e-mails, programs and other materials created for the awards ceremony and the associated lecture series of award recipients. The awards are grouped into university level and faculty level. The university level are university wide, across all faculties, while the faculty awards are awarded specific to an individual faculty.

The new Active Learning Initiative was "designed to solicit and support proposals to redesign and/or enhance the delivery of large enrolment courses."

This file contains posters advertising the Faculty Conference and showcasing award winners for teaching excellence.

The series contains records of the Learning and Teaching Office (LTO) committees : minutes of two meetings ; two committee reports to the Academic Council ; and a committee report on the establishment of teaching and learning enhancements to classroom POD 372.

The file contains the minutes of two meetings for the Learning and Teaching Office (LTO) Committee, May 27, 1993 and October 24, 1995.

The file contains two reports to the Academic Council :

• Report of the Learning and Teaching Committee to Academic Council, May 3, 1993
• Focus on Information and Educational Technology : The Larger Context for Our Deliberations, May 1995

The short report discusses the mandate to create flexible learning and teaching environments by retrofitting existing classrooms with upgraded presentation technology. The report was created for the Provost and Vice President Academic and the Vice President Administration and Finance from the Committee for Effective Teaching and Learning Environments (CETLE). The committee consisted of members from across the university.

The Series holds newsletters issued by the Learning and Teaching Office for faculty.

The faculty newsletter featured information on teaching and learning, gave notices of events and conferences, and reported on LTO activities and articles. Following a department re-organization, this newsletter continues where the GREET Exchange newsletter left-off in 2006.

This file contains an E-newsletter issued by the the Learning and Teaching Office. Inaugural issue was January 2010.

This file contains copies of newsletter "The Learning & Teaching Office Monthly Digest".

The series holds files on a number of faculty conferences, including the Ryerson Faculty Conference held each May, the McGraw-Hill Ryerson Teaching and Learning Conference Series, and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).

The faculty conference was known as the Annual Workshops (see RG 574.2) until 1999 when, in keeping with common usage and references, the name was changed to the "Annual Ryerson Faculty Conference."

As of 2002, the Ryerson affiliate GREET became the Learning and Teaching Office and Judy Britnell of GREET became the director. The acronyms GREET and SRC were dropped in connection with the faculty conference and the name changed to "May Faculty Conference" or the "Ryerson May Conference" and finally to the "Ryerson Faculty Conference." With these 2002 changes, the faculty conference material has been arranged in the Learning and Teaching Office group.

The file contains an email and application for a presentation proposal to be held at the 31st conference held jointly with McGraw Hill (publishing). The topic of the conference was, "Students at the Centre - Transforming Education...and Lives".

This file contains information on a few learning and teaching conferences offered to Ryerson faculty. These include one live video conference via satellite, continuing education, developing teaching portfolios, and innovative learning.

The contents of the file include material from three conferences :

• 1997 - A review by a Ryerson faculty member on their experience of the 17th annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference in Regina.

• 2010 - Jointly hosted in Toronto by Ryerson and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Most of the material in the file is for this conference. The title of this year's conference, "Creative Teaching and Learning - Exploring. Shaping. Knowing.

• 2011 - Consists of a booklet with the call for nominations and how-to instructions for possible winners of the awards for excellence in teaching.

This file contains notices regarding seminar series, "Let's Talk About Teaching" as well as GREET Teaching seminars.

The file contains notices regarding workshops including the Teaching and Research Essentials.

This file consists of notices and information about Learning and Teaching Office general events.

This file contains information and notices for Summer Institute in Learning and Teaching.

This file consists of informational notices on the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring faculty from other universities across Canada who had won awards of excellence and/or who wanted to share their research or teaching methods. Each event was aimed at the faculty of a particular TMU school or faculty, but all teaching staff were welcome. A buffet lunch was often included.

This file contains notices about two charrettes, an intensive unique weekend educational experience for students, in these cases in interdisciplinary fields and offered across the university for more senior undergraduates.

File contains job postings prepared by the Human Resources department for LTO.

This file contains email notices, a proposal and guide to orienting the new employee, programmes to orientation days, Summary of Roundtable Discussions.

This file contains information on a variety of workshops offered by LTO.

The report in this file was written for the Vice Provost Academic by a Research Associate of the Learning and Teaching Office.