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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics About midway through the first time I taught MATH 3801, Linear Programming, I found out that many of my students did not remember what the rank of a matrix was. The rank of a matrix is a basic concept covered in first-year linear algebra.... More
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
By Michele Hall, Educational Technology Development Coordinator, EDC The EDC’s Teaching and Learning Symposium is fast upon us, and this year’s theme—Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond—has me reflecting on how my own teaching practice has evolved over the years, from passive to interactive, and how it continues to... More
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
By Kevin Cheung, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics AlphaGo’s recent victory over 18-time world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go in the Google DeepMind Challenge Match stunned the world. AlphaGo is a Go-playing computer program developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind. Its victory was a big deal because many people... More
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Sometimes the course material we assign can have unexpected effects. In my fourth-year seminar on graphic novels and political identity, I have allowed my syllabus to stray from a narrow view of my discipline. So while we study works on such topics as the Holocaust,... More
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science When teaching controversial topics, particularly the kind that are known in everyday discourse to be polarizing, the question of professor “bias” is sometimes raised. Does every professor necessarily have a bias, and if so, is bias something that should be disclosed to... More
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
By Hugh Reid, Adjunct Research Professor, Department of English Language and Literature My first blog about English 4115, Culture and the Text, (but which I refer to as my ‘Rare Books’ course) was about the excitement students feel when handling 200-year-old books and trying to solve the mysteries of their materiality contained therein. The... More
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
By Jessica Lynch, Contract Instructor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies Part 1: Before the first class Joining the workforce after having been a full-time student for as long as I can remember is a little scary. Like any other major event or decision in life, it comes down to you finding a fit... More
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
By Olga Makinina, Contract Instructor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies ESLA credit courses are designed to help students whose first language is not English prepare for writing, reading, listening to lectures, and participating in discussions in their university classes. These courses go beyond a regular English as a Second Language... More
Friday, October 2, 2015
By: Hugh Reid, Adjunct Research Professor, Department of English Language and Literature It is a course without a prescribed reading list, without distinct seminar topics to discuss, with many problems and mysteries to solve, without any guarantee that the problems and mysteries will be solved or resolved. And it spends most of its time... More
Thursday, August 27, 2015
By: Leanne Barber, CUOL Office Administrator You may already be aware of the Student Centre located in D299 Loeb Building, but did you know that CUOL offers another service from that location? The Carleton University Testing Centre (CUTC) provides ‘Grade A’ service to various professional institutes (90+), universities and colleges across the... More
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Allie Davidson, the EDC’s ePortfolio Analyst, attended the 2015 STLHE conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. She asked Carleton staff and instructors who attended the conference what was one thing they learned from their experience at STLHE. Find out what they had to say in Allie’s video... More
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
By: Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz, EDC Instructional Designer ”Drop the term ‘styles.’ It will confuse others and it won’t help either you or your students.” – Howard Gardner, The Washington Post Op-Ed, 2013. In 1983, psychologist Howard Gardner proposed a new theory, of multiple intelligence. We have all run into this list:... More
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