- 2014-04-01
- Semi-occasional reports on the world of higher-education teaching and learning, as seen from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Arts. By Michael Ullyot, Associate Dean (Teaching + Learning): saving your inbox from overload since 2014.
Around Campus
- Faculty of Arts Teaching Awards: Nominate emerging and established teachers, and graduate students by April 18th.
- Desire2Learn Workshops: The end is nigh: on May 31st, Blackboard will be no more, and Desire2Learn will take its place. Here’s a UToday story on the transition.
- University of Calgary Teaching Award Winners: Congratulations to two members of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Ken MacMillan (History) and G.A. (T.) Carmen Braden (Music). They received their awards in a university-wide ceremony in late March.
- What are Classrooms For? My thoughts on flipped classrooms, active learning, and why students actually come to class.
Around the World
- Wikipedia: A Force for Good? The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has published a guide to 10 Ways Educators can use Wikipedia: from questioning its editorial policies to viewing its articles’ histories. Despite our intellectual disdain, our students are going to consult this open source encyclopedia. They should know how it works — and be empowered to change it.
- Information is Beautiful: I’d never thought of it as such, but this market research company’s annual awards (and blog) have convinced me. They “celebrate excellence and beauty in data visualizations, infographics and information art.”
- 27,000 Lecture Hours: Brush up your Heidegger, Dante, or Architectural History with Open Culture‘s list of free online university courses from Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Most of them are on YouTube, iTunes or university web sites. It includes Richard Feynman’s classic 1964 course , The Character of Physical Law: “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
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