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Category: Teaching & Learning

A Tech Talent University?

Late last week, Sheldon Levy, former President of Sheridan College & Ryerson University, former Deputy Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities of Ontario, and current Interim President of University Canada West (UCW) wrote an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about the tech talent shortage in Canada and why existing universities may not be up to the challenge of ending it.  When someone like Sheldon Levy talks, everyone should listen. The op-ed is a follow-up to a white paper that

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February 23, 2022 No Comments

Smash the Calendar

The north side of Edmonton’s downtown is maybe the most amazing couple of square miles in Canadian post-secondary education.  You’ve got Norquest College (15,000 students) on 102nd.  There’s MacEwan University (another 15,000) between 104th and 105th, and then starting around 115th you’ve got the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), which adds another 20,000 students or so.  That’s a lot of teaching and learning. So why isn’t it better known?  I’d say the concentration doesn’t get the love/notice it should because there

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December 7, 2021 5 Comments

MOOCs at 10

In the fall of 2011, Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor at Stanford, began teaching a class.  Part of it was in person.  Part of it was online.  The online portion had over 160,000 students.  Some of them did better than the students who took the class in person.  Out of this single data point, a legend was born. What grew up in the twelve or so months after this even was a sight to behold.  Thrun left Stanford to

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November 10, 2021 2 Comments

Water

Big day at HESA Towers as it’s the return of our Academic Programs Team’s series Monitoring Trends in Academic Programming (MTAP), a project led by Jonathan McQuarrie.   This edition is about programs which focus on Water, and you can read it here. It’s also the first MTAP with a co-author, Tiffany MacLennan.  And if you like that, do read our previous issues on there are previous editions on programming in Health, programming in  Agriculture/ Aquaculture and in the Humanities. The keen eyed among you

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October 28, 2021 No Comments

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (3) – New Pedagogies, New Credentials

On Monday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; yesterday I discussed the first big future trend (“Funding Challenges Forever”), and today I want to talk about the second, which I call “New Pedagogies and New Credentials”. The experience of learning online during COVID has divided both learners and instructors.  A clear majority have a healthy dislike for it, and a few loath it.  But a significant minority enjoyed the experiment.  For students who never

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September 29, 2021 1 Comment

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