Topic: Uncategorized

Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Technology

Unlike with academics and reporters, you can’t check when ChatGPT’s telling the truth

Blayne Haggart, Brock University
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Universities and the academic mission

Why UK universities are going on strike

Heather Connolly, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Arts and culture, Libraries, Politics, Universities and the academic mission

The war in Ukraine shows how libraries play a vital role in challenging disinformation

Ksenya Kiebuzinski, University of Toronto

The library at the Barockhaus Museum in Görlitz, Germany. Libraries play a vital role in preserving texts and challenging disinformation. (Shutterstock) Libraries […]

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Academic mentorship, Students, Teaching and learning

What is ‘blended learning’ and how can it benefit post-secondary students?

Siobhán McPhee, University of British Columbia and Micheal Jerowsky, University of British Columbia

Blended learning helps students learn to use new technologies so they can critically integrate and construct new knowledge while communicating in an […]

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Equity and social justice

To foster real change universities need to stand beside Black professors, not condemn them

Sarah R. Olutola, Lakehead University

Carnegie Mellon University’s denouncing of Uju Anya’s tweet about the Queen shows that universities need to do much more the support racialized […]

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Equity and social justice, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission

Why women’s studies programs in Canada are more important than ever

Jacquie Gahagan, Mount Saint Vincent University; Adwoa Onuora, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University

The ‘othering’ of women through misogyny, racism and sexism in scholarship has had, and continues to have, serious consequences on women’s lives. […]

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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 […]

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Public policy, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission

Congress 2015: The Canadian higher education data problem

Every year at the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education (CSSHE) meeting, you can count on someone – or a lot […]

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The BABY BOOMER’S lingering echo

David K.

David K. Foot tracks the Baby Boom’s impact on Canada’s university system—from an enrolment explosion in the ’60s and ’70s to mass […]

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