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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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Memes — we got that
How I turned an internet trend into a teaching tool.
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Bring more joy into your teaching
A new tool helps instructors appreciate the positive in pedagogy.
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Emojis … as rhetoric?
A new course and lab at U of T Mississauga delve into these digital images 😀
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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.
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McMaster’s graduate midwifery program aims to give the profession a boost
‘Midwives have a lot to offer,’ says the program’s director, ‘and they’re underutilized in Canada compared to in other countries.’
