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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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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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AI in Education Forum 2024: Unleashing AI’s potential for transformative learning
This groundbreaking conference on AI is organized by the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications.
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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.
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The curious incident of the nobbled college and university retiree associations
All soon-to-be-retired academics should be encouraged to join their institution’s retiree association – but some don’t even know it exists.
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Plotting out your summer
Summer is a great time for both rest and productivity, so some serious planning on the front end can help you make the most of both.
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Designing a pathway through our post-pandemic teaching challenges
How to support the teaching mission at your institution.
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Mentorship matters: Building relationships that shape your grad school success
Having a mentor who is available when you need them and listens to your dreams and concerns objectively is key.
