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Covers of various books, movies, and TV shows that have representations of fictional teaching and classrooms as parts of their narratives.

Fictional Classrooms: Read-[and-Watch]-What-You-Can Educational Development Communities

Fictional Classrooms: Read--What-You-Can Educational Development Communities Date: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 Time: 1:00-2:00pm (AT) / 12:00-1:00pm (ET) / 9:00-10:00am (PT) Register here! Workshop Description: The Fictional Classrooms project was born out of conversations about how we might attempt to reach faculty that did not typically engage with standard educational development offerings. While book clubs and […]

Cover of Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History.

Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice – June 2025 Meeting

Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice – June 2025 Meeting Date: Monday, June 16th, 2025 Time: 2:00-3:00pm (AT) / 1:00-2:00pm (ET) / 10:00-11:00am (PT) Sign up to join! (you may be prompted to log in to your Google account)   Fictional Classrooms National Community of Practice Description:   Over the past three years, our very own Matthew […]

Cover of Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History.

Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice – August 2025 Meeting

Fictional Classrooms: National Community of Practice – August 2025 Meeting Date: Monday, August 18th, 2025 Time: 2:00-3:00pm (AT) / 1:00-2:00pm (ET) / 10:00-11:00am (PT) Sign up to join! (you may be prompted to log in to your Google account)   Fictional Classrooms National Community of Practice Description:   Over the past three years, our very own Matthew Dunleavy […]

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

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Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.