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The Slow Professor ages well
The recently published 10th anniversary edition adds new material to this classic text.
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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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Teaching in a world of bleakness
Instructors have the opportunity to provide students with empathy, context and skills to manage our current context.
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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.’
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New VIU program expands the therapeutic toolkit
The program hopes to create an environment that is safe and effective for the use of psychedelics.
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Lessons learned from icebergs: reflections on learning and teaching
My past experience is always with me, below the surface, yet my teaching work hasn’t been about what I’ve done. Instead, it’s been about trusting the depths of my experience to stabilize me.
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Will COVID forever flip learning?
Rather than transmitting course content, in-person class time should be dedicated toward deep and transformative learning.
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Check your bias at the door
When addressing student plagiarism, it is easy to react emotionally, but as educators we need to keep a growth mindset even when we find ourselves in ethically challenging situations.
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Online learning: confusions, conflations, and conundrums
Let’s make sure these mediated formats really are about facilitating students’ learning and procedural knowledge construction.
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Western prof gets students to swim with sharks, virtually
New course is part of a three-year project examining whether emerging technology can help boost engagement in learning.
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How universities can support student professional development by supporting instructors
Considering York University’s Envision YU initiative model.
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Are microcredentials the future of higher ed?
They’ve been on the lips of a growing number of postsecondary administrators and faculty in recent years, and COVID-19 has only accelerated the trend.
