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Bring more joy into your teaching
A new tool helps instructors appreciate the positive in pedagogy.
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The limits of graduate professional development
The gap between permanent academic positions and the number of PhD graduates.
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SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grant
Peer reviewer’s perspectives.
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Teaching students the connection between writing and thinking
Writing is an important skill because of its role in thinking processes. Instruction should be designed to reinforce this.
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Meet Marie-Eve Sylvestre, the new University of Ottawa president who sees a world of possibilities
Bringing people together to change the community and the world.
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Meet Wisdom Tettey, Carleton University’s new president
Transformation through education.
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Thompson Rivers University seeks experts to shape the future of online education
Subject matter experts collaborate with instructional designers to create high quality content for online courses.
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Conferences: are they worth the expense?
It's conference season. Let’s weigh the pros and cons.
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Be more than a bystander
Community support can go a long way towards mitigating the damages caused by online harassment.
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Demonstrating impact in your tenure dossier
Tools to attest to influence.
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Thriving in a new (work) environment
Four strategies for early success when starting a new position
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Theming your days for effectiveness and relaxation
By devoting entire days to particular areas of your academic life, you will feel like you have more control over your tasks.
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Addressing the leak in Canada’s academic pipeline
Systemic challenges often start in graduate school for women.
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Clarify this: structuring highly readable lists (Part 2 of 2)
One way to simplify potentially complex lists is to arrange the items to progress in complexity, placing the ‘heaviest’ or most complex item at the end.
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Strategies to help with the hardest part of our job: grading
Grading can be tedious, but there are ways to make it more human and – surprisingly – more fun.
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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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Emphasize this: structuring highly readable sentences and paragraphs (Part 1 of 2)
If your writing is being labeled as ‘too dense’, there are some simple ways to reorder the words in your sentences.
