…that event. In May of 2015, the Executive Lead of the review, Sue Herbert, was invited to OCUFA’s spring Board of Directors meeting to introduce the Review, present some of…
READ MORE…Any skill is developed by repeated exposure to effective practice. For practice to be effective, students have to see the value of the practice and need to be given the…
READ MORE…values and practices of free expression and inclusivity can and should be reconciled, and that the policies we adopt should reflect these commitments. Shree Paradkar, a Toronto Star journalist who…
READ MORE…freedom to debate and discuss difficult topics should remain a central feature of university life, according to the universities minister, Sam Gyimah. The new plans come after concerns over “no-platforming”…
READ MORE…syallabi, web-based teaching materials, lecture notes, even entire courses. Increasingly, intellectual property belongs to the university, not the instructor. Computerized evaluation systems, such as mypsychlab.com and mysoclab.com, eliminate the need…
READ MORE…that has administrations scrambling to enforce codes of academic integrity. And then there’s TurnItIn.com, a commercial service that will scan student work against its 130-million-essay database and report any similarities….
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