April 2025

Announcing: The ActuEras Tour!

I have my first ever Spring non-teaching term in May - August 2025, so I'm planning a world tour to talk about actuarial & statistical education! I'll be updating my tour dates here: /scholar/dkchisho/actueras-tour and hopefully making a blog post about what I presented as well as what I learned at each location/event. Hope you can join me at one of the talks and/or follow along online!
P.S. Credit goes to my sister for coming up with the ActuEras Tour name :) Read more about Announcing: The ActuEras Tour!

Educational Research Summary

Guest post by Nicola Ablett, nablett@uwaterloo.ca

My name is Nicola Ablett, and I am a fourth year Data Science student here at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. I have had the pleasure of being the Educational Research Assistant for Diana this term. Throughout the last couple of months I have been working on the Enhancing Assessment Practices project investigating data from core math courses, reading results from student surveys, and learning more about general policies that are on course syllabi. The project is wrapping up this year, and by giving a...

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[TDF Recap] From Lecture to Keynote: Talk on Cognitive Load Theory sparked my next presentation

Guest post by Ilham Akhundov, Associate Professor Teaching Stream (ilham.akhundov@uwaterloo.ca)

Recently, I attended the Math Teaching Colloquium at University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. The speaker Dan Wolczuk delivered a compelling presentation on how cognitive load theory can revolutionize teaching and learning math. The talk highlighted how managing cognitive load effectively can lead to better student engagement and deeper learning. Inspired by this insightful presentation, I decided to dive deeper into the subject.

I quickly realized that there is a significant...

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