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It will be so good to get back in the classroom.

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Robert Basil

I will not be able to hide my tears.

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Open Learning

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Robert Basil

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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Hunger in the classroom

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Robert Basil

When I used to teach writing in Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Special Education Teacher Assistant (SETA) program*, on our first day of classes I would tell my students that I possessed nearly none of their ability to infer the emotional or … Continue reading →

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Come to Canada

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Robert Basil

In a tart post this morning Atrios notes that he would be shocked if foreign enrollment in [American] colleges and universities wasn’t down 10%+ next year (I completely made up that figure, of course, but you get the idea) even if … Continue reading →

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