The Conversation

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Arts and culture, Intellectual property, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Technology

ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process

Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston and Alec Stubbs, UMass Boston
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Collective bargaining, Contract faculty, Faculty associations, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure

New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk

Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury
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Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

The humanities should teach about how to make a better world, not just criticize the existing one

Robert Danisch, University of Waterloo
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Equity and social justice, Health and safety, Students, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

How to make post-secondary study more accessible? Collaboration between instructors and disability counsellors

Philip Burge, Queen's University, Ontario
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Arts and culture, History, Research and innovation

How Monopoly informs academia and economics, even when it’s not obvious

Thomas Michael Mueller, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Equity and social justice, Students, Universities and the academic mission

Universities and colleges want to enrol more students. But where are they supposed to live?

Timothy A. Brunet, University of Windsor

Universities and colleges that seek to grow their student enrolments have an obligation to address student housing. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) The Toronto […]

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Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Students, Teaching and learning, Technology

The dawn of AI has come, and its implications for education couldn’t be more significant

Vitomir Kovanovic, University of South Australia

Ground Picture/Shutterstock The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has given us a glimpse into the future of teaching and learning alongside artificial […]

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Research and innovation, Teaching and learning

How the pandemic affected our approach to reading and interpretation of books

Ben Davies, University of Portsmouth and Christina Lupton, University of Copenhagen

GoodStudio/Shutterstock During the pandemic, reading took on new meaning. People turned to books for comfort. Some read to confront difficult issues, especially […]

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Academic freedom, Academic mentorship, Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Intellectual property

Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University
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Equity and social justice, History, Students, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Canadian engineers call for change to their private ‘iron ring’ ceremony steeped in colonialism

Marcel O'Gorman, University of Waterloo
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