The Teaching and Learning Open Forums are full-day events designed to promote constructive dialogue among educators about various aspects of teaching practice and build a stronger teaching community at Georgian. The day includes open / closing activities, small group discussions and a lovely lunch. The Centre for Teaching and Learning has hosted this event regularly since 2002 and before introducing our Focus on Teaching Conference in the spring, it was held twice a year.

This event is based on a meeting format called Open Space Technology, where participants play an active role in determining the agenda and facilitating the dialogue for small group discussions. It has always been quite popular and many who attend find it to be the best professional development event of the year.

To read more about Open Space Technology in general, visit http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi 

To see notes from discussions at previous Teaching and Learning Open Forums, visit the links below.

• Open Forum Notes – December 2010
• Open Forum Notes – December 2007
• Open Forum Notes – Spring 2004
• Open Forum Notes – Winter 2003
• Open Forum Notes – Spring 2003
• Open Forum Notes – Winter 2002
• Open Forum Notes – Spring 2002

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