As Instructional Developer – Consulting and Research, Julie provides confidential teaching consultations for faculty members and instructional staff in areas, such as course design, delivery, and evaluation. She also supports faculty and staff with designing, implementing, and disseminating results from pedagogical research projects. Prior to joining the Centre for Teaching Excellence, Julie worked at McGill University’s Teaching and Learning Services, where she was involved in the Course Design and Teaching Workshop, graduate education initiatives, and teaching consultations. She also taught Effective Communication courses at McGill. Julie recently completed a Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology and Higher Education. In her thesis, she explored the notion of development as it applies to student learning and to the work of educational developers, by drawing on the exciting research on threshold concepts. Outside of work, Julie and her husband love playing at the park with their two young children.
Recent Publications
- Timmermans, J. (2010). Changing our minds: The developmental potential of threshold concepts. In J.
H. F. Meyer, R. Land., & C. Baillie (Eds.),Threshold concepts and transformational learning. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense.
Selected Recent Peer-Reviewed Presentations and Invited Workshops
- Weston, C., Winer, L., Berthiaume, D., & Timmermans, J. (2010, June). Levels of agency in educational development. Workshop facilitated at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED): Enhancing Strategies for Global Quality Learning in Higher Education, Barcelona, Spain.
- Timmermans, J. & Weston, C. (2009, August). Identifying potential threshold concepts in Educational Development: Towards a profile of professional Educational Developers. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- SSHRC National Doctoral Fellowship
- FQRSC Doctoral Research Scholarship
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