The Skills Agenda
The time to experiment is now and you have the skills to try.
Students are not being properly prepared for future careers. This needs to change.
Academic leaders conduct and oversee considerable emotional labour within Canada’s universities. Care ethics approaches can inform this work.
Applying care ethics to our academic work.
Emotional labour and care work are part of academia. They should be recognized as such.
Nine active learning ideas to consider as you end the semester.
Effective listening is a valuable life and career skill that instructors can help students develop.
Understanding research independence can help identify level-appropriate strategies for skill development.
How some Canadian research universities approach graduate professional development.
As supervisors, PIs and department chairs, individual faculty members can help early career researchers identify and develop their skills.
How instructors can help teaching assistants develop as graduate students.
These learning materials can be freely shared and usually allow for the ability to adapt them to meet student needs.
Use your concerns about ChatGPT and academic misconduct to redesign your courses to build academic integrity skills.
Evolving technologies present both challenges and opportunities for advancing academic integrity.
Understanding the reasons for cheating provides instructors with a starting point to address the issue.
The Canadian Historical Association is leading by example when it comes to modernizing doctoral education.
Our students will work in a data-driven world. How can instructors ensure they have the skills they need to work with data responsibly?
Knowledge workers will require the ability to work in diverse teams and contexts.
ChatGPT is demonstrating the disruptive potential of AI for higher education. The challenge is to identify how to use this disruption to advance learning.
The Pay It Forward Assignment allows students to share their learning to help current and future students.