Universal Design for Learning- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning May Workshops - UM Today News April 16, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning Booklet (সার্বজনীন শিখন-শেখানো কৌশল: সহায়ক পুস্তিকা) - ResearchGate April 7, 2025
- Use AI and the metaverse to keep your students engaged online - Times Higher Education April 7, 2025
- How to integrate essential Universal Design for Learning principles - TrainingZone April 4, 2025
- UConn Waterbury’s Neurovariability Initiative: Where Cognitive Strengths Fuel Learning for All - UConn Today April 2, 2025
- Universal Design for Learning - SUNY - The State University of New York March 27, 2025
- Collaboration Is Key to Successful UDL Implementation - Language Magazine March 21, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Across Cultures: The Application of UDL in Kuwaiti Inclusive Classrooms - ResearchGate March 2, 2025
- Education and AI
- China integrates artificial intelligence into educational programs - AzerNews April 17, 2025
- China will start using artificial intelligence to update the education system - Mezha.Media April 17, 2025
- China to rely on artificial intelligence in education reform bid - StartupNews.fyi April 17, 2025
- China to rely on artificial intelligence in education reform bid - The Economic Times April 17, 2025
- China to rely on artificial intelligence in education reform bid - Reuters April 17, 2025
- IC focuses on increased artificial intelligence initiatives for educational and departmental use - The Ithacan April 16, 2025
- Leveraging artificial intelligence for theological education: ‘AI is not a human, it is a tool’ - www.christiandaily.com April 15, 2025
- AI In Education: Personalized, Adaptive, And Breaking Barriers - Forbes April 15, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Duke issues guidance to international students following DHS order to screen visa holders’ social media for antisemitism - dukechronicle.com April 18, 2025
- Chisholm ejected over K, continues criticism on social media - MLB.com April 18, 2025
- US orders Gaza-linked social media vetting for all visa applicants - South China Morning Post April 18, 2025
- Videos capture terrifying moments of FSU shooting and students' reactions - CBS News April 18, 2025
- Trump administration orders Gaza-linked social media vetting for visa applicants - Reuters April 18, 2025
- Yankees' Jazz Chisholm ejected for arguing strikeout call, blasts umpire on social media minutes later - CBS Sports April 18, 2025
- Jazz Chisholm Jr. Ejected and Slams Ump on Viral Social Media Post - Athlon Sports April 18, 2025
- Aggie fans and media react to Texas A&M landing Indiana transfer Mackenzie Mgbako - Aggies Wire April 18, 2025
- Kwantlen
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News Canada April 18, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU launches new exchange program to welcome students from Tunisia - Education News Canada April 16, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - From crochet to murals: KPU fine arts students host graduation exhibition - Education News Canada April 8, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Aldergrove Star April 1, 2025
- Langley university students look east to create special beer - Hope Standard April 1, 2025
- KPU receives funds for academic upgrading and language skills - Peace Arch News March 29, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University researcher granted $540K for LED lighting research on greenhouse strawberries - Greenhouse Canada March 27, 2025
- B.C. universities, colleges in crisis after widespread faculty layoffs - CityNews Vancouver March 26, 2025
Tag Archives: for educators
“Pre-Planned Feelings”
We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … Continue reading
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From the great Bryan Garner: You can buy the new, 5th edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage here.
This can go a long way
This semester I asked a student of mine who’s in my university’s HR program whether human resources professionals needed to actually like people. (I wish I remember why I asked!) She told me nobody had ever asked her that question … Continue reading
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Looking for new colleagues
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a vibrant and splendid place to work. My own department – Applied Communications (in the Melville School of Business) – is looking for two new instructors. We’re a good crowd. Apply here.
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
More on rigour
Over at the Teaching and Learning Commons, my colleague Jennifer Hardwick places the concept of rigour in the context of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) : The Oxford English Dictionary defines “rigour” as “the fact of being careful and paying great … Continue reading
Pedagogy
Rigour seems to mean two different practices: The thoroughgoing-ness of the curriculum (here rigour is expected of the professor in terms preparation *and delivery*) and the exactingness of assessment (where the onus is on the student, at the mercy of … Continue reading
Get smart
To welcome humbling moments is part of good mental hygiene. There is, at any rate, no way around these experiences when you teach social and digital media to university students. On that note: Here is another amazing Overdrive Interactive graphic; … Continue reading