CENTRE FOR TEACHING
EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION
CENTRE FOR TEACHING
EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION

Digital Pedagogies and Innovation

Meeting our Digital Pedagogies and Innovation Team!

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Alisa Cunnington
Senior Educational Developer, Digital Pedagogies and Innovation
acunnington@yorkvilleu.ca

Alisa Cunnington (she/her) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with 6+ years in increasingly senior roles with educational technologies and over 25 years’ post-secondary education teaching experience in colleges and universities as well as with museums and art galleries. She immediately is joining our CTEI from Brock University’s Centre for Pedagogical Innovation where she was the Senior Educational Developer, Technology Enabled Learning, and she is looking forward to connecting with YU + TFS faculty and instructors about their relationships with technology and its integration and entanglement with their pedagogies. (Alisa welcomes conversations, too, about her artistic practice; her research and teaching about storytelling, museum studies, or studies in arts and culture; her love of hiking and exploration of the world near and far; and her deep commitment to situating herself as a settler in a colonized nation and to all things anti-oppressive.)  

Yirong Wang
Educational Technologist
ywang@yorkvilleu.ca

Yirong Wang (she/her) holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Educational Technology as well as a Master of Education (MEd) in Adult Education. Yirong brings a diverse academic background to her role as Educational Technologist at Yorkville University and Toronto Film School. Providing expert guidance on technology selection and incorporation, Yirong is committed to enhancing technology-enabled teaching practices for diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility. Yirong is also responsible for planning, developing, and delivering targeted faculty development programs on pedagogical strategies with approved educational technologies. Driven by a passion for advancing educational technologies and digital pedagogical innovation, Yirong engages with emerging tech trends and conducts institution-level research to facilitate transformative teaching and learning experiences for achieving our signature learning outcomes.

Tony has long blonde hair over their shoulders and is wearing a black turtlenecked t-shirt with a thin gold chain necklace.

Tony Payment
Educational Technologist
tpayment@yorkvilleu.ca

Tony Payment (they/them) is a recent graduate of Brock University’s Game Design MA, whose research focuses on the linking of scholarship to design and development. They have previously served as a training coordinator at MacDon Industries, as well as a teaching assistant at Brock university. With experience in employee training and a passion for teaching and connecting with students and educators, they hope to bring a unique, creative perspective to YU + TFS and the CTEI.

Stay tuned as we continue to launch with portfolio.

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Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

mdunleavy@yorkvilleu.ca 

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.