Universal Design for Learning- UCD Launches World-First Guidelines for Universal Design for Learning in Nursing Practice Placements - University College Dublin September 3, 2025
- Centering the Learning & Well-Being of All Children - Learning for Justice September 2, 2025
- Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Supports Inclusive Education - Learning for Justice September 2, 2025
- Stop placing the onus on neurodivergent students to ‘fit in’ - Times Higher Education August 14, 2025
- Building self-competence in health education | UDaily - University of Delaware August 12, 2025
- (PDF) The Use of UDL in an Inclusive Classroom: A Review Based Study - researchgate.net August 8, 2025
- (PDF) Developing Teachers’ Competences for Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Needs of All Students - researchgate.net August 7, 2025
- Education and AI
- Empowering Minds: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Education Curricula - Business Standard September 10, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence for K-12 teachers: IIT-Madras expands SWAYAM AI courses for educators - The Indian Express September 10, 2025
- U.S. Secretary of Education highlights AI in classrooms during visit to Austin private school - KVUE September 9, 2025
- Alpha School showcases expedited student learning through artificial intelligence alongside state, federal leaders - Community Impact September 9, 2025
- Artificial intellegence on London Morning: The changing landscape of AI in education - CBC September 9, 2025
- Artificial intelligence and education with Mark Daley on London Morning - Yahoo News Canada September 9, 2025
- UNESCO convenes global leaders at Digital Learning Week 2025 to shape - UNESCO September 9, 2025
- Long Hill Township Board of Education introduces new staff members, adopts artificial intelligence policy - New Jersey Hills Media Group September 9, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- What should Christians make of the Great Awokening? - Premier Christianity Magazine September 10, 2025
- Robinhood Adds Social Media Feature to Mobile App - PYMNTS.com September 10, 2025
- Hyundai Middle East Appoints McCann Content Studios as Social Media Agency of Record - Little Black Book September 10, 2025
- Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman: Youth gun violence is 'as serious as a fentanyl epidemic' - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel September 10, 2025
- City of Carmel social media touts TV show coming to city - Current Publishing September 10, 2025
- Altman questions if social media is dominated by bots - Digital Watch Observatory September 10, 2025
- Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase - The New Yorker September 10, 2025
- Social media emerges as a key driver of hotel bookings - Yahoo Finance September 10, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU officially launches its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan - Education News Canada September 3, 2025
- VIDEO: Ford fans at KPU in Langley today - Aldergrove Star September 1, 2025
- 'Wake-up call': Decline of international students forces layoffs, program suspensions at B.C. schools - Times Colonist September 1, 2025
- B.C. college layoffs put student success at risk, faculty warn | News - Daily Hive Vancouver August 29, 2025
- Letters to The Sun: Slashing our college and universities cannot come at a worse time - Vancouver Sun August 29, 2025
- Donation big help to program - Langley Advance Times August 29, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - More layoffs at Kwantlen Polytechnic University as international enrollment plummets - Education News Canada August 29, 2025
- Mounting layoffs at B.C. schools creating 'biggest crisis in post-secondary ever,' faculty association says - CBC August 28, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
More on Open Learning
These short and very well-written videos given by Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechnic University‘s Associate Vice Provost of Open Education, and produced by Cobb House Studio vividly describe new ways to create a class. What are Open Educational Resources? What are Open Textbooks? … Continue reading
“Intimate supervision”: Surveillance on campus
This Washington Post report – holy crap: Short-range phone sensors and campuswide WiFi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before. Dozens of schools now use such technology … Continue reading
“The Professional Culture of the Press”
NYU Journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen* writes that “Not in personal but in public life, 2019 has been the most bleak and depressing year I have lived through of my 63. A few tiny green shoots in a … Continue reading
Open Learning
Some of my colleagues in the Applied Communications department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have published an “open textbook” for people in our profession. Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral … Continue reading
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Vancouver histories
I am much enjoying rereading “Vancouver Special,” a funny but unsparing collection of essays written by local writer and comic Charles Demers and published by Arsenal Pulp Press (with photographs by Emmanuel Buenviaje). A note in his chapter on the … Continue reading
Happy to help
Twice in the last week I have helped to prevent a calamity from befalling a colleague. One colleague was irritated and the other was infuriated to receive my editorial help, though they each requested it. Both will come out “smelling … Continue reading
Getting it over on Google
As someone who has taught digital and social media to super-smart marketing students, this cracked me up: Why would Rudy Giuliani associate and indicted dealmaker Lev Parnas name his company “Fraud Guarantee”? Is there a worse name for a company … Continue reading
Discussing parapsychology in the classroom
A few days ago I had the good fortune to chat (via Skype) with advanced undergraduate students at Brooklyn College. Our topic was “parapsychology.” The gifted and nimble instructor of Psych 3585 was LeAnne Flaherty, who was a student in … Continue reading