In a recent meeting with a number of teaching-minded colleagues, one made what – to me – sounded like a rather innocent […]
READ MOREHey all, Please allow me to introduce myself! I’m Steve Joordens and, like many of you, I’m afraid I have become addicted […]
READ MOREOn June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. Points I raised in […]
READ MOREI remember the exact moment when I realized that I really am a professor. It wasn’t when I got hired, that’s for […]
READ MOREWe had taken our places at the table, For some words after the break, On various comings and goings. And when—twice—the professor said, “hope,” The celestial fireworks following the verb Had us rocketing skywards too. I had always suspected, The poet’s powerful leanings, but now I reckoned, How few exchanges we had actually come to know, Between pedagogy, providence, and rain.
READ MOREOttawa City Council has voted to increase the cost of the universal student transit pass (the ‘U-Pass’) by almost 25 percent. In return, one would think students deserve better—not worse—service.
READ MOREWhether you are teaching a blended course (where a significant portion of the course takes place online) or have been using your […]
READ MORELast June, Academic Matters and its parent organization OCUFA sponsored the first Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education. It was a […]
READ MORECheap and ubiquitous technological resources have reshaped our geopolitical and economic realities, by providing individuals with almost instant access to the collective knowledge of humankind
READ MOREThings I never thought I would do: today I went to my union meeting and voted in a strike vote. On a […]
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