Universal Design for Learning- How do we make more accessible learning content for children with disabilities? - UNICEF September 30, 2024
- Professional learning spotlight: OCDE to offer training on Universal Design for Learning - OCDE Newsroom September 26, 2024
- Sabrena Deal shapes inclusive learning and design at Grady - Grady College September 25, 2024
- BME Seminar Series: Alisha Sarang-Sieminski, Ph.D., Olin College: “Using A Universal Design Framework to Bridge the Gap Between Accommodations Letters and Active Learning Approaches” - WPI News September 20, 2024
- New Mexico Mathematics Instructional Scope 3.0 - New Mexico Public Education Department September 6, 2024
- Remove barriers with digital accessibility - News | University Communication | Nebraska August 27, 2024
- Universal Design for Learning (In person) - Brock University August 27, 2024
- National award highlights UH professor’s inclusive education efforts - University of Hawaii System August 19, 2024
- Education and AI
- Artificial Intelligence leader for higher education - Ellucian October 21, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence - in Higher Education - The Portugal News October 21, 2024
- AI in Business Education: How advanced analytics and automation technologies are changing the MBA experience - EdexLive October 21, 2024
- PennWest University Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies - exploreClarion October 19, 2024
- The Hindu to host webinar on the use of Artificial Intelligence in education - The Hindu October 18, 2024
- Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Formal Foreign Language Education: A Collaborative Initiative - NTNU October 18, 2024
- Nothing artificial about Learning Services’ team’s intelligence! - OpenText October 17, 2024
- Top 15 Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in 2025 - Simplilearn October 17, 2024
- Social Media Policy
- Social Meteor grows team with multiple new hires across design, accounts and social media - Campaign Brief October 21, 2024
- GoFundMe bets social media can unlock Gen Z giving. A Meta partnership and new tools will test that - PinalCentral October 21, 2024
- ‘What happened to the nanny?’: Social media descends on Doug Emhoff’s ‘girl dad’ post about abortion - Washington Examiner October 21, 2024
- Tiffany Queen Expands Influence as Music Artist and Social Media Star, Garnering Millions of TikTok and - EIN News October 21, 2024
- No Arda Guler joy for Juventus fans as social media account hacked - Sportstar October 21, 2024
- Why was Quinn Ewers benched? Examining Texas’s social media controversy stating Arch Manning would be Longhorns’ QB1 for rest of the season - Sporting News October 21, 2024
- Social Media-Inspired Candies - Trend Hunter October 21, 2024
- UK watchdog interviews 20 social media ‘finfluencers’ under caution - The Guardian October 21, 2024
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU community honoured with King Charles III Coronation Medal - Education News Canada October 17, 2024
- 'Security threat' near KPU's Langley campus - Langley Advance Times October 15, 2024
- Bringing better, bountiful berries to Canadian tables - The Western Producer October 3, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University student paper receives petition to dissolve - Richmond News October 3, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Researchers find hairy solution for B.C. cows facing scorching heat - Education News Canada October 3, 2024
- Kwantlen University student newspaper threatened with shutdown - MSN September 26, 2024
- Kwantlen University student newspaper threatened with shutdown - Vancouver Sun September 26, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU recognized for sustainability efforts with silver STARS rating - Education News Canada September 24, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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“The Inukshuk is my friend.” The Invictus Games are coming to Vancouver and Whistler in February. It will be the first time winter sports events will be featured “in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting … Continue reading
Election Day in B.C.
And it’s an “atmospheric river” event in Vancouver. Timing!
Is Kwantlen Student Association trying to kill student newspaper?
Seems bad. I trust these machinations, no matter who is behind them, will not be successful. My life is already too full of dismay (thank you very much). The editor of The Runner, the student newspaper, is interviewed here. Many … Continue reading
Raw Milk
Let’s not. The marvellous Talia Lavin discusses “the collapse of consensus reality.” I love how Lavin lets loose her scorn. Increased raw milk consumption has already led to a rise in foodborne illness—including stillbirths, miscarriages and deaths, albeit in very … Continue reading
“Storying Universal Design for Learning”
My Kwantlen Polytechnic University colleague Seanna Takacs, PhD, has coauthored “Storying Universal Design for Learning” (with coauathors Lilach Marom, Alex Vanderveen, and the late Arley Cruthers Mcneney). It is a terrific book that “compiles post-secondary student voices on accessible teaching … Continue reading
Preparing ourselves for November
Dr. Kate Starbird and her colleagues at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have launched a Substack newsletter devoted to tracking rumours and misinformation concerning the upcoming United States Presidential election. This newsletter is part of the … Continue reading
“If you have any tips and tricks for evading censors, please contact us.”
This sentiment, published in The Economist by Gabriel Crossley, has made my Sunday. Crossley notes that in China VPNs (“software which makes it appear as if a computer or mobile phone is located in another country”) have been “getting slower” … Continue reading
Counter
I have had truly unpleasant interactions with people I’ve known for years – including with those in academia – during these Olympics. Their loathsome disdain for transgenderism made them attack a non-transgendered woman, a boxer from Algeria, in giddy displays … Continue reading
The speaking body
There has always been an oral-communication component in my upper-level business communications classes. I used to justify this to my students this way: In my own professional life, no matter how beautifully clear and researched the documents my clients pay … Continue reading
“Time is of the essence.”
This story is from the online news publication “Jolt: The Journal of Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater” [in Washington State]: Starting Monday, June 17, Intercity Transit will cease posting rider alerts on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). This decision comes in response … Continue reading