Universal Design for Learning
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 20, 2025
- Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025 - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- (PDF) Familiarity, Current Use, and Interest in Universal Design for Learning Among Online University Instructors - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Dreamery Speaker Series: Sessions focus on inclusive learning and accessibility - Penn State University October 31, 2024
Education and AI
- Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Medical Device - openPR January 21, 2025
- UNESCO dedicates the International Day of Education 2025 to Artificial Intelligence - UNESCO January 20, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence In Education To Be Discussed In Bernards - Patch January 20, 2025
- Education in the age of Artificial Intelligence - Sunday Observer January 18, 2025
- Estyn to review use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools - GOV.WALES January 13, 2025
- BT Connect To Discuss Artificial Intelligence In Education - Patch January 10, 2025
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence Tools into Education and the Workforce - PA Times January 10, 2025
- Top Artificial Intelligence Applications | AI Applications 2025 - Simplilearn January 8, 2025
Social Media Policy
- Follow Me: Social Media Butterfly | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties - North Bay Bohemian January 22, 2025
- AT THE SHELTER: Check Out The Humane Society On Social Media - Greeneville Sun January 22, 2025
- Texas Tech basketball fans gloat on social media after Red Raiders beat Bearcats - Wreck 'em Red January 22, 2025
- Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for January 21, 2025 including Wendi Deng was curiously absent from yesterday' - LaineyGossip January 22, 2025
- Don’t rely on social media users for fact-checking – many don’t care for the common good - Monash Lens January 22, 2025
- Cristiano Ronaldo Reacts on Social Media After Brace and Georgina Rodriguez Leaves Comment - Sports Illustrated January 22, 2025
- 2nd ethics probe examines Ryan Walters for social media, political activity - Sequoyah County Times January 22, 2025
- Zane Smith's wife McCall exudes effortless elegance in social media post about her St. Barth vacation update - Sportskeeda January 22, 2025
Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU streamlines program completion by translating prior learning, experience into credits - Education News Canada January 9, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY KPU researchers seek to create the perfect T-shirt - Education News Canada January 8, 2025
- KDocsFF goes on hiatus after founder and festival director suffers hip fracture - Pancouver December 21, 2024
- Local business partnering with KPU to do several research projects in Cloverdale - Surrey Now Leader December 13, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU alum's book on Taylor Swift's fashion becomes New York Times bestseller - Education News Canada December 3, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU students expand Traditional Chinese Medicine education in Beijing - Education News Canada October 30, 2024
- B.C. Election: What the results across Metro Vancouver tell us about the 2024 vote - Vancouver Sun October 21, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Happy Public Domain Day!
From The Public Domain Review: Another year dawns… and another bevy of works dust off their copyright and emerge fresh-faced, full of hope, into the elysian plains of the public domain! On this year’s Public Domain Day (which falls each January … Continue reading
Pernicious Balance
Scholarly journals hide everything from people who can’t afford to read them. Large language models steal everything from people who can’t afford to lose anything.
Retirement
Reposted from basil.CA: 2025 Next year, at summer’s end, I will be retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The … Continue reading
“AI-powered bias meter”
Watching owners of once-great American newspapers destroy their own property has been truly shocking to me.
Feedback
When interviewing candidates for teaching positions at my university, I often ask them how they provide and receive feedback in the workplace, to get a quick, vivid picture of their character and initiative. When you give clear and useful feedback … Continue reading
Prime marketing space!
“The Inukshuk is my friend.” The Invictus Games are coming to Vancouver and Whistler in February. It will be the first time winter sports events will be featured “in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting … Continue reading
Election Day in B.C.
And it’s an “atmospheric river” event in Vancouver. Timing!
Is Kwantlen Student Association trying to kill student newspaper?
Seems bad. I trust these machinations, no matter who is behind them, will not be successful. My life is already too full of dismay (thank you very much). The editor of The Runner, the student newspaper, is interviewed here. Many … Continue reading
Raw Milk
Let’s not. The marvellous Talia Lavin discusses “the collapse of consensus reality.” I love how Lavin lets loose her scorn. Increased raw milk consumption has already led to a rise in foodborne illness—including stillbirths, miscarriages and deaths, albeit in very … Continue reading
“Storying Universal Design for Learning”
My Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Seanna Takacs, PhD, has coauthored “Storying Universal Design for Learning” (with coauathors Lilach Marom, Alex Vanderveen, and the late Arley Cruthers Mcneney). It is a terrific book that “compiles post-secondary student voices on accessible teaching … Continue reading