How I Contribute to Higher Education’s Ongoing Success

• Coordinator, Learning and Faculty Development the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Thompson Rivers University.
• Founder, Senior Specialist and Evaluator, Higher Education & Beyond
• Adjunct Faculty member in the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies with School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan
• Chair, Educational Developers Caucus
• Certified Evaluator (C.E.) with the Canadian Evaluation Society.
• Trained ISW facilitator
• Workshop facilitator on evaluation and methodology topics of statistical literacy, mixed methods, qualitative methods, data analysis, data management, evaluation planning, and survey design
• Workshop facilitator for teaching and learning topics of experts teaching novices, how students learn, assessment, program outcomes development and evaluation, constructive alignment (Video).
• Writing, publishing and reviewing on curriculum evaluation, educational development research and evaluation, collaborations in research on teaching,  graduate student success and more.

Previously

• Curriculum Specialist (Microcredentialing) working with OCAD and OntarioTech on SMA funded strategy; OCAD University.
• Curriculum Development Consultant in the Office of the Vice Provost Academic at Ryerson University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (current)
• Tutor and co-developer of the International Educational Development Course with collaborators across Canada and the UK.
• Educational Development Specialist at The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Saskatchewan with a focus on curriculum, evaluation, research on teaching (SoTL), and assessment (2012-2018)
• Instructor – Qualitative research methods (2016, 2017), Statistics (2015), Introductory Instructional Skills (10 times; 2013-2017)
• Vice-Chair, Professional Development, Educational Developers Caucus (2014 – 2016)
• Educational Development Associate (or Graduate Student Coordinator), Centre for Teaching and Learning, Queen’s University
• Teaching Assistant Associate, Educational Development Office, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Co-President, Psychology Student’s Association, University of Toronto

Three+ degrees of education

• Leadership Saskatoon 10-month program, Leadership Saskatoon and University of Saskatchewan
• MBA Courses, University of Saskatchewan (Business & Society, HR, and Accounting)
• Indigenous Voices, University of Saskatchewan
• Doctorate of Philosophy in Education, Queen’s University – Dissertation: A Contextual View of Support For Graduate Students’ Scholarly Teaching (full version) (Two-page Bridges Newsletter summary:  Hoessler-2013-What-Supports-Graduate-Students-teaching.pdf )
• Masters of Arts in Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University – Thesis: To Ipsatize or Not To Ipsatize: That is the Question
• Honours Bachelor of Science, Psychology Research Specialist Program, University of Toronto – Thesis: Does aging affect the use of shifting standards?

Some of my professional memberships…

• Member of the Educational Development Caucus since 2007 (nomination committee member 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2017).
• Member of the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education since 2007 (New Awards Working Group in 2009, and Adjudicator for the 3M National Student Fellowship 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019).
• Member of International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (since 2012)
• Member of the Canadian Evaluation Society (since 2017)

Grateful to be Honoured

• 2016 Educational Developer Leadership Award, Educational Developers Caucus. This national award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills working on a teaching and learning project or initiative that benefits the educational development community.

Other things I enjoy…

Photo by Heather Fritz

• Baking (with its own twitter account: @yxebaking)
• Puzzles (1000+ pieces ideally)
• Designing and stitching custom cross-stitches
• Gardening (when ground not covered in snow)