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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Samah Sabra Over the last few years collaborative learning became the new “it” in education. There are websites, government documents and conferences dedicated to the topic. Having returned in mid-June from a conference where educational developers, faculty and students shared many of their ideas and research on higher education, I have... More
Friday, June 28, 2013
By: Samah Sabra I was recently in beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where several staff and faculty from Carleton attended the annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference. I co-facilitated a pre-conference workshop and attended many sessions facilitated by faculty, senior administrators, educational developers and... More
Monday, June 17, 2013
By: Manuela Popovici The more I’ve been thinking about student motivation, the further I’ve moved away from the motivated/unmotivated dichotomy. I realized that I was holding on to a belief in the “right motivation” and thus the only acceptable motivation, i.e. the desire to learn, because that’s how I always felt about school. I... More
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
By: Patrick Lyons Technology and higher education are popular topics for conversation, research and debate within many post-secondary education institutions. A key challenge when thinking about higher education and technology is keeping an eye on trends, issues and developments within the large higher education community as well as external trends... More
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Fresh off receiving the 2013 Desire2Learn Innovation Award for Teaching and Learning, Carleton history professor Shawn Graham tells us how he manages to keep his teaching creative. By: Shawn Graham I've had some spectacular fails in my teaching practice. When I first started out, I would look around at what other folks were doing... More
Monday, May 6, 2013
By: Samah Sabra Often, when I speak with contract instructors, instructors and faculty, they express surprise when I tell them they are innovative. With last week’s annual Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference being hosted at Carleton, I had a lot of time to think about how we define innovation in education. CNIE... More
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
By: Samah Sabra Before Fall 2012, I knew there were plans to retire WebCT this April. These plans left me with two options for the next two terms: (1) keep going with WebCT until it was no longer an option or (2) start using cuLearn now that it was available to me. The first... More
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