Advancing Teaching and Learning Committee

Mandate and Role

The Teaching and Learning Committee aims to advance strategic areas and core principle(s) outlined in CARL’S Strategic Focus 2022-2025 and the institutional academic mission by:

• Articulating the strategic role of research libraries in supporting the delivery of education (both teaching and learning);
• Working collectively to develop and implement a pan-Canadian framework to support essential student, faculty and researcher literacies (digital skills, information literacy, maker literacy, science literacy, data literacy, open educational practices);
• Pursuing strategic partnerships and innovative, scalable opportunities to promote equity as it pertains to student and faculty access to information and ways of knowing, potentially including:
  • Promoting greater access to learning materials, whether through open educational resources, more affordable e-textbook licensing and pricing, controlled digital lending, etc.;
  • Guiding the implementation of Marrakesh treaty outcomes and promoting greater accessibility;
  • Partnering in Indigenizing and decolonizing curriculum content and delivery;
  • Optimizing library use of learning technologies (LMS, AI applications, CDL) and optimal user experience;
• Partnering in initiatives to enhance student academic success in CARL institutions including student mental health and wellness.

Read the ATLC-Terms-of-Reference-Mandat-CAEA-2022

Members (as of September 2023)

• Amber Lannon (Carleton University) – Chair
• Gohar Ashoughian (Simon Fraser University)
• Lesley Balcom (University of New Brunswick)
• Amanda Etches (University of Guelph)
• Megan Fitzgibbons (Concordia University)
• Navroop Gill (University of Toronto)
• Sheril Hook (York University)
• Dominique Lapierre (Université Laval)
• Nicole Nolan (Brock University)
• Lionel Villalonga (Université du Québec à Montréal)
• Brett Waytuck (University of Regina)
• Susan Haigh (CARL, ex-officio)

CARL Liaison and Committee Secretary

• Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Senior Program Officer
  

Active Sub-Groups of this Committee

Open Educational Resources (OER) National Strategy – Stratégie nationale en matière de ressources éducatives libres (REL)

Past Sub-Groups

Open Education Working Group

AI Task Group (2023-2024)

Members

Sheril Hook (Chair), York University
Dianne Cmor, Concordia University
Karen Munro, Simon Fraser University
Dominique Lapierre, Université Laval
Mark Robertson, Toronto Metropolitan University
Helen Kula, McMaster University
Lesley Balcom, University of New Brunswick
Marc Comeau, Dalhousie University

Digital Literacy Task Group (2023-2024)