In my opinion
BY BONNIE STEWART | July 10 2013
Understanding MOOCs as a battle between marketization and traditional higher education blocks us from envisioning other viable futures for higher education.
In the ongoing buzz and backlash around MOOCs (massive open online courses) clogging higher education news these days, the narratives are hardening. Dialogue around change in higher education increasingly centres on the illusion of a simple divide: the
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/moving-beyond-a-binary-view-of-moocs/
Graduate Matters
BY STEPHANIE DUPLEY | March 21 2018
To build an effective network that can lead to referrals, starting early is best.
networking event) and informally (meeting a friend of a friend who works at a company that interests you), as well as online, and in person. However, the very thought of actively meeting new people and conversing can make students shudder (especially us awkward folk), but the process of creating and...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/networking-catalyst-academic-career-success/
News
BY SHAUNA MCGINN | February 01 2017
Several Canadian universities have had their IT systems taken hostage over the past year.
The word “ransom” usually brings to mind harrowing kidnappings by armed thugs. But, in the digital age, it’s taken on a new meaning with ransomware: malicious software, or malware, targeting personal computers or computer net-works at places like banks, hospitals – and uni-versities. Instead...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-must-take-steps-protect-ransomware-attacks/
News
BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | November 27 2017
Five universities and three community colleges hire a shared chief information security officer to help fend off attacks.
On a recent late Friday afternoon at Brock University, an administrative assistant received a phone call from someone identifying himself as being from Microsoft tech support. The caller alerted her to unusual activity on her PC and asked her to download an app so he could control her computer and s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/several-ontario-universities-join-together-fight-cybercrime/
News
BY MAXIME BILODEAU | March 01 2022
Whether they like it or not, Canadian institutions will have to address the issue of cybersecurity – before it’s too late.
Are Canadian universities vulnerable to cyberattacks? Not according to them. Unless regular operations are affected, very few postsecondary institutions report being victims of cybercrime. Case in point: when a major security flaw was discovered in December 2021, it wasn’t until the Quebec governm...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-need-to-start-taking-cybersecurity-seriously/
The Black Hole
BY DAVID KENT | June 30 2010
networking events. This is exactly the type of thing that off campus research institutes need to create and support in an effort to compensate for the lack of a physical university campus.
Importantly, there needs to be space and time given to exposing graduate students and post docs (and profess...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/doctors-of-philosophy-i-fear-not/
Career Advice
BY ROCHELLE MAZAR | February 27 2013
Aliases aren’t just for the infamous. Bibilotech podcast host Rochelle Mazar offers advice on separating the personal and the professional online.
Welcome to BiblioTech – the podcast about emerging technologies for academics. Your host is Rochelle Mazar, an emerging technologies librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Every month you can listen in as Rochelle talks about what's new in technology and what academics should ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/episode-15-of-bibliotech-online-pseudonyms/
Sponsored Content
BY BRAD SAFFER | January 08 2021
A flexible approach to teaching and learning – whether that’s onsite or remote – is now integral to delivering uninterrupted learning.
networking, collaboration and security technologies can help universities and colleges to navigate these uncertain times to drive student and educator success, maintain physical and virtual security and streamline operations to help with cost savings.
https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/sponsored-content/higher-education-institutions-must-embrace-technology-at-all-levels-to-survive-the-covid-19-crisis/
Features
BY TIM LOUGHEED | June 09 2008
Canadian researchers have been chronicling the decline of the world’s fisheries for years yet some remain cautiously optimistic that we may still be able to turn the tide on their fate
Economics is known as the dismal science, but with numerous apocalyptic reports on the state of the world's fisheries, one could be forgiven for awarding the gloomy title to fisheries research.
Canada has had a front-row seat to the drama of our depleted oceans with the collapse of the cod stocks...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/a-ray-of-hope-on-the-dark-seas/
Features
BY TIM LOUGHEED | April 06 2010
Enthusiastic volunteers help researchers with the labour-intensive task of collecting data and specimens in the field.
Nova Scotia’s Pugwash Estuary, on the Northumberland Strait across from Prince Edward Island, is the type of place that attracts the attention of naturalists. Featuring a largely undeveloped coastline and forested upland, the area hosts dozens of bird species, both on shore and on surrounding isla...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/citizens-sold-on-science/