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Reflection on five years of The Skills Agenda
Faculty innovation is key to advancing student career preparation in the years ahead.
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Planning for effective, skills-building group projects
Group projects don’t necessarily build teamwork skills. Instructors need to teach and support skill development.
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The benefits of a ‘teaching hospital’ approach to education
How bringing real-world practice to campus helped produce highly sought after grad students with transferable skills.
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Practical strategies to end your courses on a high note
Nine active learning ideas to consider as you end the semester.
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How to make the history of ideas more engaging for students
Students become far more interested when discussions focus on the tensions within a belief system rather than comparing two different ones.
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What’s missing from current discussions about reimagining our universities
Assumptions that tenure is central to an effective university and that academics must be engaged in both teaching and research are only part of the problem.
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Weaving Indigenous and western knowledge
How Indigenous researchers and communities are working in partnership with universities and non-Indigenous researchers to shape the future of environmental sciences.
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How producing videos on TikTok is impacting teaching
“I think it's provoked a change in the way we actually teach. Hopefully, it’s going in a direction of being more engaging and interactive.”
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To sync or be async? Some thoughts and questions to consider when teaching online
Take the time to determine how your course is structured and run; it will make a huge difference in deciding which method to choose.
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Moving skills instruction from implicit to explicit outcomes
Give your students clear learning objectives and concrete opportunities to apply what they are learning.
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How the pandemic has shown social justice needs to be central to public health education in Canada
Including social justice in public health curriculum will equip students with an equity lens.
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Three ways to achieve meaningful online student learning
By rebranding office hours, having assignment debriefs and doing a survey after each module, I am able to build higher quality courses.
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A universal marking rubric
Our students like having rubrics for their assignments, but we couldn’t find a good example. So we created one.
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Embracing development, sustainably
Universities are turning to the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals as a blueprint for achieving a better and more prosperous world.
