Topic: Teaching and learning

Equity and social justice, Ethics, Performance assessment, Teaching and learning

Read the student survey responses shared by academics and you’ll see why Professor Hambling is justified in burning hers

Pema Düddul, University of Southern Queensland

Eliza Morse/Netflix If you’ve watched the Netflix sitcom The Chair you’ll remember the scene in which Professor Joan Hambling burns her student […]

Online education, Performance assessment, Teaching and learning

The art of good teaching

John Oughton

After I retired from a decade of leading faculty orientations and workshops at Toronto’s Centennial College, I wondered what to do with […]

Public engagement, Public policy, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Reckoning with the truths of unmarked graves of Indigenous children, education systems must take action

Lisa Korteweg, Lakehead University; Pauline Tennent, University of Manitoba, and Tesa Fiddler

A temporary memorial for Canada’s residential schools is blessed by Indigenous elders in a pipe ceremony in Calgary in August 2021. THE […]

Online education, Teaching and learning, Technology

Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?

Dilani Gedera, Auckland University of Technology; Ashwini Datt, University of Auckland; Cheryl Brown, University of Canterbury; Dianne Forbes, University of Waikato, and Maggie Hartnett, Massey University

Shutterstock As any university student, lecturer or tutor can attest, the pandemic has turned learning and teaching upside down. So it’s important […]

Equity and social justice, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Universities and schools must acknowledge how colonial education has reproduced anti-Indigenous racism

Lisa Howell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Kiera Brant-Birioukov, York University, Canada, and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Protesters march to Parliament Hill in Ottawa in response to the discovery of unmarked Indigenous graves at residential schools on July 1, […]

Equity and social justice, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

In times of racial injustice, university education should not be ‘neutral’

Jennifer S Simpson, Ryerson University; Sulaimon Giwa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Verna St Denis, University of Saskatchewan

While Canadian universities are paying more attention to anti-racism and equity, more must be done to incorporate those values into the education […]

Academic mentorship, Online education, Students, Teaching and learning

Open letter to my soon-to-be student: Math likely tops the list of things you worry about, but there is good news

Andrijana Burazin, University of Toronto Mississauga, Veselin Jungic, Simon Fraser University, and Miroslav Lovric, McMaster University

Dear Student: Congratulations on accepting our offer! Becoming a university student is an important and exciting milestone in your life, as well […]

Ethics, Teaching and learning, Technology

Data science education lacks a much-needed focus on ethics

Jeffrey C. Oliver, University of Arizona and Torbet McNeil, University of Arizona

Undergraduate students need to learn the responsible use of data science as well as the nuts and bolts. Hill Street Studios/Stone via […]

Contract faculty, Teaching and learning

The casual staff who do 80% of undergrad teaching need more support — here’s a way unis can help

Robyn Moore, University of Tasmania; Emily Rudling, University of Tasmania; Maria Kunda, University of Tasmania, and Sebastien Robin, University of Tasmania

Shutterstock Casual staff do an estimated 80% of undergraduate teaching in Australian universities. Research shows these staff are highly committed, going above […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Online education, Public policy, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Technology, Universities and the academic mission

Constructing the futures of Canadian universities

Ian Roberge, York University

This article is interested in the futures of Canadian universities. Around the world, much has been written about the futures of universities. […]