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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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Why you should start using open educational resources in your teaching
These learning materials can be freely shared and usually allow for the ability to adapt them to meet student needs.
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Designing courses that promote academic integrity
Use your concerns about ChatGPT and academic misconduct to redesign your courses to build academic integrity skills.
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ChatGPT? We need to talk about LLMs
Large language models are here to stay, but they also present ethics and equity questions about their design, operationalization, and legacy that universities must consider.
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U of Manitoba professor is helping kids explore their gender identity
Researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities.
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A partnership with U of Ottawa’s med school aims to train more Inuit doctors
The collaboration between the university and the Government of Nunavut highlights the importance of culturally safe care.
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Big canoes, small world
Lakehead project aims to restore one of several decades-old boats that are ‘catalysts for community building.’
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What’s left, 10 years after Quebec’s Maple Spring
Young leaders reflect on the legacy of the province’s largest-ever student protests.
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The quest for more vets
How universities are responding to a country-wide shortage.
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Advice for sessionals
A part-time professor’s most important lesson: survival.
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Snapshots from a bumpy academic year, through a math professor’s lens
The journey back from pandemic-enforced online learning will be a steep learning curve for everyone.
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Faculty lack training programs in pedagogical skills
Training needs to go beyond course delivery and focus on evolving issues such as student mental health and educational technology.
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Returning to the ranks after more than 20 years as an administrator
Could I completely re-pivot back to where I started as an academic? It would be disingenuous to claim that I had no doubts, especially on the teaching side.
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Reflections on teaching and practice as cross-cultural communication
The cultural dimension is particularly important as Canadian universities enroll more and more international students.
