Opinion

Why not have mandatory “toolbox” training?

In a recent meeting with a number of teaching-minded colleagues, one made what – to me – sounded like a rather innocent […]

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Speak, listen, think, repeat …

Steve Joordens

Hey all, Please allow me to introduce myself! I’m Steve Joordens and, like many of you, I’m afraid I have become addicted […]

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Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary Education

Nick Falvo

On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. Points I raised in […]

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My Professorial ‘Eureka’ Moment

Steve Penfold

I remember the exact moment when I realized that I really am a professor. It wasn’t when I got hired, that’s for […]

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Lightning Over Bloor

Judith P. Roberston

We 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.

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Canada’s most expensive U-Pass: Students deserve what they pay for

Nick Falvo

Ottawa 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.

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Take Your Online Teaching to the Next Level

Camille Rutherford

Whether you are teaching a blended course (where a significant portion of the course takes place online) or have been using your […]

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New video on the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education

Last June, Academic Matters and its parent organization OCUFA sponsored the first Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education. It was a […]

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Mobile Learning in the 21st Century

Camille Rutherford

Cheap and ubiquitous technological resources have reshaped our geopolitical and economic realities, by providing individuals with almost instant access to the collective knowledge of humankind

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Strike Vote

Karen Dubinsky

Things 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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