Universal Design for Learning- Building a Course from Scratch: When Time is Not on Your Side - Faculty Focus August 20, 2025
- Stop placing the onus on neurodivergent students to ‘fit in’ - Times Higher Education August 14, 2025
- Building self-competence in health education - University of Delaware August 12, 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
- Teacher candidates’ abilities to develop universal design for learning and universal design for transition lesson plans - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- (PDF) Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education - researchgate.net August 6, 2025
- GHS, GMS staff study classroom design - Westside Eagle Observer August 5, 2025
- Education and AI
- State superintendent to convene 'Artificial Intelligence in Education' workgroup - KSBW August 29, 2025
- Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, launches Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare - PR Newswire August 29, 2025
- Application and ethical implication of generative artificial intelligence in medical education: a cross-sectional study among critical care academic physicians in China - BMC Medical Education August 29, 2025
- Notre Dame Law School Becomes First Law School to Partner with Harvey AI to Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Legal Education - University of Notre Dame August 28, 2025
- Noble Goals: Old Dominion University Researchers Build Human-Centered, Ethical AI for Education - Old Dominion University August 28, 2025
- Teachers cannot be coded - Unesco August 28, 2025
- Artificial intelligence (AI) | Definition, Examples, Types, Applications, Companies, & Facts - Britannica August 28, 2025
- Preston school board discusses artificial intelligence in education - WV News August 28, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Social media reactions to FSU’s upset win over Alabama - Tomahawk Nation August 31, 2025
- Jelena Ostapenko apologizes on social media for what she said to Taylor Townsend at the US Open - MSN August 31, 2025
- Social media reacts to Arkansas' 52-7 win over Alabama A&M - On3 August 31, 2025
- Alabama football upset by Florida State: Social media reacts to Week 1 upset - USA Today August 31, 2025
- Alabama football upset by Florida State: Social media reacts to Week 1 upset - Yahoo Sports August 31, 2025
- Texas quarterback Arch Manning catches wrath on social media after tough game: 'He's adopted' - Fox News August 30, 2025
- Bruce Pearl trolls Alabama football on social media after its loss to Florida State - AL.com August 30, 2025
- Jelena Ostapenko apologizes on social media for what she said to Taylor Townsend at the US Open - Alton Telegraph August 30, 2025
- Kwantlen
- 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
- 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
- 'Wake-up call': Decline of international students forces layoffs, program suspensions at B.C. schools - Vancouver Sun August 28, 2025
- KPU set to lay off more staff as international student enrolment plunges - Yahoo News Canada August 28, 2025
- KPU and Langara layoff more staff after number of I-students drop - CityNews Vancouver August 28, 2025
- "We are Deeply Disappointed": KPU Axing More Full-Time Staff - Samfiru Tumarkin LLP August 28, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Pernicious Balance
Scholarly journals hide everything from people who can’t afford to read them. Large language models steal everything from people who can’t afford to lose anything.
Retirement
Reposted from basil.CA: 2025 Next year, at summer’s end, I will be retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The … Continue reading
“AI-powered bias meter”
Watching owners of once-great American newspapers destroy their own property has been truly shocking to me.
Feedback
When interviewing candidates for teaching positions at my university, I often ask them how they provide and receive feedback in the workplace, to get a quick, vivid picture of their character and initiative. When you give clear and useful feedback … Continue reading
Prime marketing space!
“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