Francis Bangou
Professor Francis Bangou specializes in Second Language Education. He is interested inter alia, in second language teacher education, and designing technologically enhanced courses and community service-learning teaching. He has worked diligently to empower future teachers by researching, building knowledge, and providing training on the use of digital technologies in second-language education. He challenges his students with diverse teaching approaches and modalities and shows through his courses how education can effectively serve those who have been marginalized from the education process. An educator of great rigour, creativity, and flexibility, he makes sure to implement the strategies he shares with his students in his own classroom.
Anthony Carlsen
- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor Anthony Carlsen’s strives to be at the leading edge of pedagogical innovation and always aims to provide a bridge between the conceptual and the practical. Perceiving the pandemic’s online teaching format as an opportunity, he and a colleague developed software used by over 10,000 people worldwide in 2021, enabling students to complete experiential learning labs on their own devices. He uses a variety of media to cater to various learning styles, fostering an environment in which students are actively engaged in their studies. Generously sharing the educational tools he creates for his students with others, his passion for teaching and his dedication to student learning is outstanding.
Isabelle Giroux
- School of nutritional sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor Isabelle Giroux is a Registered Dietitian nationally recognized for her dedication, commitment, and innovation in educating Canada's future dietitians. Her teaching philosophy focuses on listening to students: helping them discover their interests, strengths, and limitations, and shaping their professional independence by emphasizing the importance of self-assessment and self-improvement. As the author of the book Applications and Case Studies in Clinical Nutrition and a pioneer in the development of the University's Honours Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Sciences – Dietetics, Professor Giroux is always striving to provide experiential learning opportunities to support the development of professional and interprofessional collaboration competencies, tools, and resources that will enrich her students’ learning.
Michel Godin
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science
Having instructed over 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students over the course of his career, Professor Michel Godin’s educational impact is far-reaching. For students new to physics, he finds ways to illustrate challenging concepts by conducting practical demonstrations (occasionally showcasing his unicycling skills!). He fosters an atmosphere of inclusion by offering alternative learning resources, from supplementary lecture notes and videos to online discussion forums. Recently, he led efforts to transform teaching labs into innovative, experiential learning opportunities by redesigning learning spaces and updating science experiments. At the graduate level, students in the research lab receive cutting-edge training in the interdisciplinary field of biophysics, leading them to careers in academia as well as in the private sector.
Rebecca Tiessen
- School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor Rebecca Tiessen is an internationally-renowned innovator in experiential learning and scholar of global citizenship education. From contributing to the creation of the uOGlobal program to being the first faculty member to design microcredit options for experiential learning, she recognizes the importance of linking academic learning to practical examples of community development. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, she adapted international internships and study/volunteer abroad programs to fit the new online format by co-creating a new course on Global Experiential Learning, linking students with community partners around the world. She continues to employ bimodal teaching methods to provide students with unique international learning opportunities, including collaborations with social innovators around the world as part of the Ventures Initiative.