Topic: Teaching and learning
Lecture recordings mean fewer students are turning up – does it matter?
Shutterstock In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class […]
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Ontario’s high school e-learning still hasn’t addressed students with special needs
Following a negotiation impasse, Ontario public secondary teachers walked off the job on a one-day strike. Here, striking teachers are seen outside […]
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Academic mentorship, Equity and social justice, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning
Healthy research ecosystem—healthy researchers? The researcher as an organism of focus within a research ecosystem
The academic research environment is changing and researchers report struggling to adapt in order to be successful. Funding shortfalls are perennial, but […]
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Teaching truth and reconciliation in Canada: The perfect place to begin is right where a teacher stands
Despite challenges, teacher education offers a path to begin righting inequities and injustice. Here, people stand on a map from the Indigenous […]
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Academic mentorship, International issues, Students, Teaching and learning, Tuition and student fees
The importance of supporting international students with financial literacy education
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has indicated that financial knowledge is a central life skill for participation in modern […]
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The problem with the push for more degrees
RIDTHISING/Shutterstock.com In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion […]
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The ‘slow professor’ could bring back creativity to our universities
Creative, social and family life should not be banished from the knowledge economy. (Shutterstock) Last summer, a friend gave me a copy […]
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Le « slow professor » ou comment retrouver la créativité dans nos universités
Il est temps de pratiquer une certaine dissidence au sein même de l’université. shutterstock L’été dernier, une amie m’a remis le livre […]
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International issues, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Shifting priorities in the new university
The image of universities composed of mostly full-time tenured professors is long out-of-date. Half of all undergraduate students in Canada, as in […]
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