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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Are you interested in helping students build their capacity to become self-directed learners? Are you interested in how we might provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities for students?
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/" id="OWAecc233d2-1201-26a9-2815-fde2da842b43" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/" data-outlook-id="d3eaea1a-dd07-4782-a939-c22207cb152f" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">The
Centre for Teaching Excellence</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> along with the
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/teaching-incubator/projects/adapting-student-led-individually-created-courses-sliccs" id="OWAcec32895-9399-86ec-51ba-e59f9e24d2e0" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/teaching-incubator/projects/adapting-student-led-individually-created-courses-sliccs" data-outlook-id="bbb8f18e-05e6-4845-8e94-945faba55f6e" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">Teaching
Innovation Incubator</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> invite you to attend the following in-person sessions on Thursday October 24 and Friday October 25. We will be joined by
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/scriley" id="OWA5d325f8e-eb57-4770-b429-4b7c8383874b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/scriley" data-outlook-id="c3ad91a2-bf92-4ed1-8662-ded00d108460" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">Dr.
Simon C. Riley</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, academic lead for the University of Edinburgh’s institution-wide
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><u><a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/facilitators-toolkit/case-studies/sliccs" id="OWAb5e9c917-70cd-8c0f-09cb-1b29d7acc937" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/facilitators-toolkit/case-studies/sliccs" data-outlook-id="c84a9993-9d9b-4926-a119-6fac6f667b23" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215);">SLICC</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> initiative.</span></div>
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Please find details below. We hope you can attend!</div>
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Thanks, </div>
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The SLICC Team</div>
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<b>Supporting Self-Directed Experiential Learning at UW using the SLICC Framework</b></div>
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<b>WHAT’S HAPPENING?</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/scriley" id="OWA1c0e97c4-db53-8f8d-7bc6-935b9a511b44" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/scriley" data-outlook-id="0fc59ea8-8ed9-4736-8427-12ac24df44d4" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Dr.
Simon C. Riley,</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> academic lead for the University of Edinburgh’s institution-wide
</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/facilitators-toolkit/case-studies/sliccs" id="OWA3a54a7b6-2965-2857-8de2-d13b9022a6d0" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/facilitators-toolkit/case-studies/sliccs" data-outlook-id="3897849c-d3d5-474f-bbb1-bcf60bb15ab3" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Student-Led
Individually Created Course (SLICC) initiative,</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is coming to the University of Waterloo. Join us to learn about his journey championing SLICCs at his institution and explore how SLICCs have been adapted for
use at UW!</span></div>
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<b><i>Join us for these in-person sessions. Registration is required.</i></b></div>
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<b><i><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/supporting-self-directed-learning-uw-using-student-led" id="OWA6acc0d96-15ee-7adc-3dca-ae18e70160e8" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/supporting-self-directed-learning-uw-using-student-led" data-outlook-id="e3665a4c-eb40-45e0-8436-bd7b09c508ce" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">What’s
happening at UW? SLICC instructor and student panels</a></u></i></b></div>
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<i>Thursday October 24, 9AM to noon</i></div>
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<b><i><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/student-led-individually-created-course-slicc-instructor-0" id="OWAd14497a3-2d96-4df0-7fc4-79547039284f" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/student-led-individually-created-course-slicc-instructor-0" data-outlook-id="6316bfd4-9c1f-431b-8183-0de7c2a4bf0c" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Workshop:
Introducing the SLICC Framework – with Dr. Simon Riley</a></u></i></b></div>
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<i>Thursday October 24, 1:30-3:00</i></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i> </i></span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><b><i><u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/supporting-interdisciplinary-learning-through-sliccs-cte7034" id="OWAbba14616-4e69-53e1-f1f8-774cac9e9636" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/events/supporting-interdisciplinary-learning-through-sliccs-cte7034" data-outlook-id="b2f66560-89ec-4235-86b5-2b276732e9ea" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Supporting
Interdisciplinary Learning</a></u></i></b></span></div>
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<i>Friday October 25, 9:30-11:30</i></div>
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<b>What is a SLICC?</b> <br>
A self-directed experiential learning and reflection framework designed to help students develop skills required to succeed in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world they will encounter. This framework can be integrated into a course or
an extra-curricular project wherein the instructor sets the learning outcomes in broad strokes, and the student is responsible for planning, proposing, carrying out, and evaluating a learning experience of their own creation that aligns with the learning outcomes.
This approach encourages self-directed learning, fosters creativity, develops learning and assessment literacy, and allows for a personalized experience that aligns with the student's interests and career aspirations. Instructors typically provide guidance
or support as students take the driver's seat. </div>
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Unlike traditional courses which prioritize the learning product, SLICCs focus on the process and experience of learning. This means that a student can excel in a course that integrates the SLICC framework, even if their proposed output is unsuccessful, by
effectively articulating, with evidence, what they would do differently, and how they will apply these lessons in the future. As such, reflections are central to SLICCs. </div>
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The SLICC framework integrates nicely into practicum courses, capstone courses, major project-based courses, e-coop, entrepreneurship courses or courses/programs with volunteer, service-learning, self-directed learning, internships, work experiences and/or
research project requirements. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://contensis.uwaterloo.ca/sites/open/resources/sliccs/pages/home.aspx" id="OWA2afab0b0-8477-e985-4148-617870cc2a39" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://contensis.uwaterloo.ca/sites/open/resources/sliccs/pages/home.aspx" data-outlook-id="0ec81709-6dd6-4af1-8616-e28602971235" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"> SLICC
Instructor Toolkit</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> provides a comprehensive overview of the SLICC framework and our SLICC resources. </span></div>
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