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Teaching experience in the academic job market
“Evidence of teaching effectiveness” adds to the ever-growing demands on graduate students.
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Co-designing the curriculum
In the Students as Partners approach, instructors collaborate with students to develop a university course.
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Putting non-disposable assignments to work
The Pay It Forward Assignment allows students to share their learning to help current and future students.
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It is time to make teaching-stream faculty count
A survey of primarily teaching math faculty reveals the need for standardization to strengthen and support these integral contributors to undergraduate education.
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Major international survey will shine a spotlight on the academic profession
Canadian researchers offered a sneak peek of some of the results at Congress in Vancouver.
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It’s a professor’s duty to teach proper essay writing
These six strategies can easily be implemented as part of a proactive approach to essay writing.
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The lure of learning analytics
Researchers now have access to a flood of educational data on students that they hope will offer insights on how to improve the learning experience. Will it work?
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Canadian journalism schools partner in new association
J-Schools Canada, a network for journalism educators and program administrators, will have its first meeting at the Canadian Communication Association conference at Congress in June.
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We need to improve teachers’ mental health literacy
Faculties of education have a role to play in ensuring that teachers can identify and respond to students’ mental health challenges.
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Do universities put too much weight on student evaluations of teaching?
Research suggests that student evaluations of teaching are often badly designed and used inappropriately. But change is underway.
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Business schools offer a growing number of specialty programs as alternatives to MBAs
The once-ubiquitous MBA degree is being replaced by shorter, more targeted master’s programs.
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Teacher supply goes from glut to scarcity in a few short years
The mounting teacher shortages in parts of Canada have several sources, including working conditions, cuts to teacher education programs and a lack of specialty instructors.
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Instructors explore game-based learning
Educators are using gaming elements, combined with the interactive and immersive aspects of virtual reality, to enhance learning.
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Dear professor, watch what you tweet
As time goes by, I’m having more and more misgivings about using social media.
