Latest Past Events

Journal Club – July 2025 Meeting

Journal Club – July 2025 Meeting Date: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 Time: 2:00-3:00pm (AT) / 1:00-2:00pm (ET) / 10:00-11:00am (PT) Sign up to join! “Journal Club” CTEI Communities Description: Join the CTEI for monthly get-togethers where members will gather to share and discuss ideas on teaching, learning, and education more broadly. Discussions will be guided by selected journal articles balancing theory and practice. The article for July 2025’s Meeting will be determined together closer to the date – stayed tuned! Meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month at 10-11AM PT / 1-2PM ET / 2-3PM AT. Check out our CTEI Communities page for […]

Journal Club – June 2025 Meeting

Journal Club – June 2025 Meeting Date: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 Time: 2:00-3:00pm (AT) / 1:00-2:00pm (ET) / 10:00-11:00am (PT) Sign up to join! “Journal Club” CTEI Communities Description: Join the CTEI for monthly get-togethers where members will gather to share and discuss ideas on teaching, learning, and education more broadly. Discussions will be guided by selected journal articles balancing theory and practice. The article for June 2025's Meeting will be determined together closer to the date - stayed tuned! Meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month at 10-11AM PT / 1-2PM ET / 2-3PM AT. Check out our CTEI Communities page for […]

Tiny Teaching Tales

Tiny Teaching Tales Date: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 Time: 3:30-5:00pm (AT) / 2:30-4:00pm (ET) / 11:30-1:00pm (PT) Register here! Workshop Description: Inspired by Chris Anson and Nancy Sommers’ work with “Writing and Sharing Tiny Teaching Stories,” this interactive workshop aims to bring together Yorkville U and TFS faculty and staff to do just the same: write and share some of our tiny teaching tales together! In the vein of the NY Times’ “tiny love stories” series, Anson and Sommers shift the lens of love to that of teaching to see what happens when we capture something interesting or memorable about […]

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.