Online and Blended Learning

Educational Leaders in Residence (ELR) are responsible for developing and implementing high-impact, institutional teaching and learning projects that lead to clear outcomes and results. 

Our ELRs for Online and Blended Learning will collaboratively work to advance blended and online course design, expertise and pedagogies across campus. 

Educational Leaders in Residence, Online and Blended Learning

In the area of online and blended learning, the Educational Leaders in Residence collaborates with the Taylor Institute and the Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) to:

  • Review and advise on the development of standards and regulations to support and advance online and blended learning at UCalgary.
  • Facilitate campus conversations related to online learning through existing campus networks and committees.
  • Advise and consult with academic programs on meaningfully integrating online and blended learning in new program proposals, in collaboration with academic staff in the TI and the program innovation hub.
  • Advise on and develop resources and supports needed to support academic staff, teaching assistants, students and other university stakeholders in the development of teaching expertise in online and blended learning.
  • Contribute to scholarship related to online and blended learning, including evaluating and disseminating the success and impact of initiatives implemented to strengthen online and blended learning.
  • Participate in the development of an institutional strategy related to online and blended learning at the University of Calgary, including capturing the lesson learned and how we have transformed teaching and learning through COVID.
  • Connect with other Educational Leaders in Residence, TI leadership and the VPTL to report on progress and relevant findings.
Dr. Corey Flynn

About Dr. Corey Flynn

I have been a faculty member at the University of Calgary since 2009, and I am currently a Senior Instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the BSc Neuroscience program. I am also currently the Assistant Head – Undergraduate for the Department of Biological Sciences.

I have always had a strong interest in technology-assisted teaching and learning practices. I was involved in the Online Course Delivery Program in Winter 2020. The transition to emergency remote delivery due to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed me to utilize these tools and the skills I had gained to help improve online and blended learning.

As an Educational Leader in Residence for online and blended learning, I look forward to taking stock of all the ways instruction changed during COVID and helping to ensure that these lessons learned shape and improve our teaching practices moving forward.

Dr. Derritt Mason

About Dr. Derritt Mason

Derritt Mason is an Associate Professor of English whose research interests include children’s and young adult literature, gender and sexuality, and cultural/media studies. He is the author of Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture (UP of Mississippi, 2021) and the co-editor, with Kenneth B. Kidd, of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (Fordham UP, 2019). Derritt is the recipient of a 2021 Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award and a 2020 Faculty of Arts Award for Outstanding Early Career Teacher. He has published on teaching and learning topics including the use of “Let’s Play” video game essays in the classroom (Teaching & Learning Inquiry 9.1), and teaching “close reading” to first-year English students (Pedagogy 22.3).