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
Tag Archives: academic writing
Autofilling the Data Gaps
My macroeconomics professor at The University at Buffalo told our class, at semester’s end, that people in his profession “had a lot to be humble about.” I loved that line and have used it hundreds of times since, to describe … Continue reading
Ethan Mollick on Using Artificial Intelligence in Student Writing
I have added Ethan Mollick’s substack blog, “One Useful Thing,” to our Resources list (above). A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mollick writes that he’s “trying to understand what our new AI-haunted era means for … Continue reading
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“Pre-Planned Feelings”
We have discussed our friend Clarissa‘s opinions on American academia and other topics in the past. She is an Hispanic Studies professor at a midwestern public university whose blog is always vividly written (and is contentious by design, I would … Continue reading
The scale of a work
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew, on finding the right size (for a book): I like saying that [my upcoming book on Lorca and music] is a medium sized book on a vast subject. So it is with scholarship. You are rarely … Continue reading
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
How to write
I love my old friend Jonathan Mayhew’s prose. His blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done), is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of “scare quotes.” The … Continue reading
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Miller was a genial man whose ardent advocacy of the “deconstruction” movement in literary and cultural criticism was notable for his uncommonly graceful prose style. His early book “Poets of Reality” was a revelation to me my first year … Continue reading
Free at Last
United States copyright law was changed repeatedly in the last century to grant copyright extensions to entire classes of works of literature and entertainment. This meant that such work could not be referenced at length in works of scholarship without … Continue reading
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10% and “the crisis in knowledge”
Writes Jonathan Mayhew: Knowledge is under attack from several fronts at once. In science itself, it is due to corporate corruption and the inherent bias toward interesting but possibly false results. There was that paper about how most scientific findings are false. … Continue reading
Good scholarly habits
My dear friend Tierney Wisniewski, this website’s cofounder and coeditor, has started up a new blog devoted to her scholarly work and how she gets it done. I love her inaugural piece, “Good Scholarly Habits.” Tierney writes with great clarity and … Continue reading