COED Fall Meeting 2019 – Registration NOW OPEN!

This year’s Fall Meeting will be held at the Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation (CTSI)  at the University of Toronto on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m (registration 9:30-10:00am). The meeting this year will embrace as its theme the Danish concept of hygge (pronounced “hoo-guh”), which roughly translates to “cozy”. We’ll speak more about hygge at the meeting, but consider reading this article for an overview of the concept. To support the theme, we invite everyone to come to the Fall Meeting in comfortable, cozy, clothing (think wool sweaters, comfortable pants, cozy socks/slippers, etc.) 

We are looking forward to another exciting year of connecting with our colleagues, sharing practices and resources, and generating ideas for the coming year. You can register for the COED Fall Meeting here. The registration fee for the Fall Meeting is $45.00 which will include snacks, refreshments, and lunch. Upon completion of your registration, you will receive a confirmation email. Payment receipts will be provided to all participants at the event.

Note: there is limited space available at this fall meeting (45 people total), so we recommend you register as soon as possible.

More detailed information about the logistics for the event and full agenda will be available soon. Stay tuned!

Pre-Meeting Sessions

This year, there will be two half-day sessions on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th at CTSI in Robarts Library. 

9:00am – 1:00pm: Educational Development: Getting Started 

A session focused on exploring or pursuing a career in educational development will be held from 9am-12pm. This session will provide an opportunity for prospective and early-career educational developers or those exploring educational development as a career option to learn more about the profession and connect with colleagues. Registrants are also invited to stay for a brown-bag networking lunch from 12pm-1pm, which will provide an opportunity to connect with one another as well as others in the educational development community. Participants can either bring lunch with them or join a few colleagues to purchase lunch from a variety of nearby vendors.

This session is free for participants, and we encourage COED members to forward this invitation to GAs and TAs who may be interested in participating, as well as new colleagues who may not yet be aware of the COED community.

1:30 – 4:30pm: Curriculum Working Group Meeting 

This half-day meeting will focus on discussion of case studies collected from members and attendees. Each case study will offer an opportunity to share ideas, practices and processes from our unique contexts. This session will cost $20.00 which will include snacks and refreshments. We also encourage registrants to attend the brown-bag networking lunch taking place immediately before the Curriculum Working Group session.

Accommodation Options

The closest hotel to the meeting location is the Intercontinental Yorkville, which is a 15 minute walk from Robarts Library. The hotel was not able to provide a group rate less than $300 per night, so we encourage registrants to search this hotel (or others downtown) on sites such as trivago.ca or booking.com for better pricing. Note that CTSI is less than a 10 minute walk from the St. George subway station, so hotels along the subway lines will still be convenient options.

Registrants may wish to consider Airbnb as an alternative to pricier hotel options. Consider locations in Yorkville, the Annex, or Harbord Village to be as close to the university as possible.

If you are planning to stay overnight, particularly on Friday the 8th, we recommend you book accommodations as soon as possible.