Every spring, the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) offers Walls Optional, a one-day conference for faculty and staff focused on teaching, learning, and technology.
Walls Optional 2025
Date and schedule TBA. Call for Proposals will open in February 2025.
Questions? Email cetl@camosun.ca.
Past keynote speakers
2024 - Teaching and Learning in a World of Complexity - Vanessa Andreotti
2023 - CANCELLED
2022 - Regrounding and Reconnecting: What's next and how do we prepare? Issues facing post-secondary education - Joan McArthur Blair with Cynthia Smith, Derek Murray and Amanda Garner
2021 - Responding to COVID - Mary Burgess
2020 - CANCELLED
2019 - Universal Design for Learning - Shane Baker, Melissa Lyon, Sue Doner, Sheryl Haynes
2018 - Learning Spaces, Adam Finkelstein
2017 - Resilience - Monique Grey Smith
2016 - Creativity and Design Thinking - Ben Weinstein, Yael Katz
2015 - Communities of Practice - Beverly Wegner Trayner
2014 - Education technology from a CEO perspective - Jonathan Baker
2013, Open Education - David Porter
2012 - Democratization of teaching and learning - Blended delivery - David Kahane, Ike Shibley
2011- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Tony Bates
2010 - Information Literacy, Mike Eisenberg
2009 - Social media and education - Alec Corous
2008 - Trends in educational technology: reflections on the Horizon Report - Brian Lamb, Scott Leslie