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
- International Day of Education 2025 global event in Paris - Artificial Intelligence and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation - UNESCO January 17, 2025
- International Day of Education 2025 event in New York: Artificial intelligence and education: challenges and opportunities - UNESCO January 15, 2025
- 5 Tips on AI Professional Development for Teachers - Education Week January 10, 2025
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence Tools into Education and the Workforce - PA Times January 10, 2025
- BT Connect To Discuss Artificial Intelligence In Education - Patch January 10, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Meghan Markle’s ‘genius’ move: Prince Harry’s wife does THIS to protect their children on social media - Mint January 22, 2025
- Around 40% of Australians admit they bought something online after seeing it on social media - MARKETECH APAC January 22, 2025
- Tech campaign launches to free social media from billionaires - Tech in Asia January 22, 2025
- Trump Administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page, social media - El Paso Inc. January 22, 2025
- Trump Administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page, social media - The Associated Press January 22, 2025
- Journalist among two held for making 'offensive' social media remarks on Maha Kumbh, Hindu deities - India News - The Financial Express January 22, 2025
- Follow Me: Social Media Butterfly | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties - North Bay Bohemian January 22, 2025
- Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for January 21, 2025 including Wendi Deng was curiously absent from yesterday' - LaineyGossip 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
- 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
- B.C. university pilots competency-based admissions program - University Affairs November 25, 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
Tag Archives: academic writing
Peers
Clarissa has a couple of words: In a way, the censorship in US academia is worse than the Soviet kind. The Soviet censors were mostly dumb, uneducated people, and it wasn’t all that hard to pull wool over their eyes … Continue reading
Transformative learning and student autonomy
No Contest co-founder Tierney Wisniewski has written a beautifully conceived and composed Master’s Thesis. Here’s the abstract. [I’ve added some paragraphing for ease of online reading, because abstracts by requirement are very, very fat.] Self-determination theory (SDT) is a well-established theory … Continue reading
No plagiarism foul
A super-smart student in my Advanced Professional Communications class asked me whether using an app that generates a citation for you in proper APA, MLA, Chicago style was plagiarism. My first thought was “I doubt it,” but in my line … Continue reading
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Writing in the Sciences
“The more that you take care with your writing, the more you might explore uncertainties in your thinking,” suggests Stanford University Environmental Earth System Science Professor Julie Kennedy in this excellent Writing Matters video. Kennedy helpfully stresses the primacy of … Continue reading
The ‘Fuzzy Logic’ Man
“He always took criticism as a compliment,” said Stuart Russell, a Berkeley professor who worked next door to Mr. Zadeh for many years. “It meant that people were considering what he had to say.”
Elitism in the classroom
Professor Mayhew’s recent take on the topic: Teaching is transactional. The instructor is not feeding information to the students, teaching them that information, but interacting with them. A third element is the text in the class. The text is not … Continue reading
Battle
In the New York Times obituary section recently I came upon one for Jacob Neusner, a scholar (and polemicist) who published more than 900 books in his lifetime. I calculated – on the back of a napkin, as it were – … Continue reading
More on Clichés …
From professor Jonathan Mayhew: One of Orwell’s sillier pieces of writing advice is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” Orwell advises “scrapping of every word or idiom which … Continue reading
On Poetry
My friend Jonathan Mayhew has been on a tear of late, publishing a series of manifestos on poetry in his wonderful blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks. Some snippets (but read the whole thing): Manifesto (1) Nobody knows what poetry is for. … Continue reading
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Free textbooks and other resources for students and educators
Students who suffer under the burden of high tuition and large student loans need all the financial help the world can provide them. For my upper-level communications classes the last couple of years I have been using an excellent online … Continue reading
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