Topic: Online education

Online education, Students, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Reflecting on a year in crisis: What the pandemic taught me about higher education leadership

Kathleen Bortolin, Vancouver Island University

For many, the crisis was COVID-19. For others, it was the various consequences of the pandemic: increased workload, learning to teach online, […]

Academic freedom, Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Health and safety, Online education, Public policy, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

The academy’s neoliberal response to COVID-19: Why faculty should be wary and how we can push back

Honor Brabazon

Neoliberal ideology has been restructuring Canadian universities for decades. This influence has been made clear in responses to the pandemic that have […]

Funding, Online education, Technology

Tax ‘pandemic profiteering’ by tech companies to help fund public education

Trevor Norris, Brock University

Thomas Reevely, 10, takes part in a class meeting in Ottawa, April 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Reevely As the one year […]

Health and safety, Online education, Students, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Tuition and student fees

How universities can support Indigenous online learners in the COVID-19 pandemic

Josephine Auger, Athabasca University and Janelle Marie Baker, Athabasca University

Indigenous people with experience guiding culturally safe talking circles in an online environment can work with students to nurture safe virtual spaces. […]

Online education, Teaching and learning, Technology

Distance learning: How to avoid falling into ‘techno traps’

Louis-Etienne Dubois, Ryerson University

There’s strong pressure to use more technology to capture student attention, but what about inviting students to adopt a contemplative posture? As […]

Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Tuition and student fees

Students facing challenges coping with online education during the pandemic

Chantelle Cruzat-Whervin

For those attending and teaching post-secondary education, there has been significant adaptation required during the pandemic. With classes over videoconference being the […]

Ethics, Online education, Technology

Online exam monitoring can invade privacy and erode trust at universities

Bonnie Stewart, University of Windsor

Testing and exam proctoring methods that invade privacy and erode trust undermine the very integrity that institutions demand students uphold. (Shutterstock) The […]

Health and safety, Online education, Students, Teaching and learning, Technology

For university students, COVID-19 stress creates perfect conditions for mental health crises

Kim Hellemans, Carleton University; Alfonso Abizaid, Carleton University; Robert Gabrys, Carleton University; Robyn McQuaid, Carleton University, and Zachary Patterson, Carleton University

A lone cyclist rides past the University of Toronto campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on June 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN […]

Online education, Students

Remote education is rife with threats to student privacy

Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

Students are being forced to disclose sensitive information online. urbazon/Getty Images An online “proctor” who can survey a student’s home and manipulate […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Online education, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Renowned educator Paulo Freire would have questioned how we are schooling our kids in the age of COVID-19

Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University and James D. Kirylo, University of South Carolina

The late education philosopher Paulo Freire would have argued that online schooling further entitles those in positions of power. Nefandisimo, CC BY-SA […]