Universal Design for Learning- Studio G Architects Celebrates Completion of Florence Roche Elementary School - Boston Real Estate Times January 9, 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
- December 13, 2024 - www.alfred.edu December 13, 2024
- (PDF) Text-to-Speech Software and Reading Comprehension: The Impact for Students with Learning Disabilities - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports - CA.gov November 13, 2024
- Why Accessibility Will Be the Next Big Demand From K-12 Districts - Education Week November 7, 2024
- Education and AI
- BT Connect To Discuss Artificial Intelligence In Education - Patch January 10, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in education: California’s approach and community perspectives - West Side Index & Gustine Press-Standard January 10, 2025
- SUNY board approves civic discourse, artificial intelligence requirements - Newsday January 9, 2025
- International Day of Education 2025 global event in Paris - Artificial Intelligence and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation - UNESCO January 9, 2025
- The effect of growing artificial intelligence usage on education - The Gateway Online January 9, 2025
- NJII launches AI and machine learning division - ROI-NJ.com January 8, 2025
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education for Improved Patient Care - Medical News Bulletin January 8, 2025
- Artificial intelligence - Machine Learning, Robotics, Algorithms - Britannica January 8, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Democrats reexamine their social media game after losing to Trump: Not 'direct' or 'authentic' - Fox News January 10, 2025
- Houston County veteran sentenced to 20 years for soliciting minor on social media - wgxa.tv January 10, 2025
- Facebook Gave a Key Trump Ally a Preview of Its New Plans - POLITICO January 10, 2025
- Shares in TikTok’s rivals gain as Supreme Court weighs U.S. ban for app - MarketWatch January 10, 2025
- IDF strikes targets in Yemen as Israel threatens to hunt down Houthi leaders - The Times of Israel January 10, 2025
- Health authority in Manitoba fires worker over 'racist' social media post - HRD Canada January 10, 2025
- Texas Lawmakers Discuss Effects Of Social Media On Children - The Dallas Express January 10, 2025
- What is Community Notes, and how will it work on Facebook and Instagram? - CBS News January 10, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU streamlines program completion by translating prior learning, experience into credits - Education News Canada January 9, 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 - Researchers focus on Surrey drug crisis with $339K award - Education News Canada December 11, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU alum's book on Taylor Swift's fashion becomes New York Times bestseller - Education News Canada December 3, 2024
- Artist Mayuresh Ambekar hopes his new mural will motivate students to explore their potential at Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Pancouver November 27, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers explore memory failure across the lifespan - Education News Canada November 13, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
More on Open Learning
These short and very well-written videos given by Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechnic University‘s Associate Vice Provost of Open Education, and produced by Cobb House Studio vividly describe new ways to create a class. What are Open Educational Resources? What are Open Textbooks? … Continue reading
“Intimate supervision”: Surveillance on campus
This Washington Post report – holy crap: Short-range phone sensors and campuswide WiFi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before. Dozens of schools now use such technology … Continue reading
“The Professional Culture of the Press”
NYU Journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen* writes that “Not in personal but in public life, 2019 has been the most bleak and depressing year I have lived through of my 63. A few tiny green shoots in a … Continue reading
Open Learning
Some of my colleagues in the Applied Communications department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have published an “open textbook” for people in our profession. Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral … Continue reading
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Vancouver histories
I am much enjoying rereading “Vancouver Special,” a funny but unsparing collection of essays written by local writer and comic Charles Demers and published by Arsenal Pulp Press (with photographs by Emmanuel Buenviaje). A note in his chapter on the … Continue reading
Happy to help
Twice in the last week I have helped to prevent a calamity from befalling a colleague. One colleague was irritated and the other was infuriated to receive my editorial help, though they each requested it. Both will come out “smelling … Continue reading
Getting it over on Google
As someone who has taught digital and social media to super-smart marketing students, this cracked me up: Why would Rudy Giuliani associate and indicted dealmaker Lev Parnas name his company “Fraud Guarantee”? Is there a worse name for a company … Continue reading
Discussing parapsychology in the classroom
A few days ago I had the good fortune to chat (via Skype) with advanced undergraduate students at Brooklyn College. Our topic was “parapsychology.” The gifted and nimble instructor of Psych 3585 was LeAnne Flaherty, who was a student in … Continue reading