Advice for offering accommodations to student requests (opinion) insidehighered.com/advice/2022/02…

Wordle 247 3/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I love it when I beat Rod.

Wordle 252 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oh yeah!

Frameworks for Going Open: Human-Centred Futures for Higher Education w/ @actualham + @thatpsychprof May 5 Douglas College #bettertogetherlearningpartners ow.ly/f7Kw50IC66k

Abolish Proctorio. Ban Proctorio. Censure Proctorio. Defund Proctorio. End Proctorio. _____ Proctorio. Thank you, freedom of expression, for protecting us from Proctorio.

🧵 This week, #Vancouver’s City Council voted unanimously in favor of a motion urging #BC to cancel its immigration detention contract with #CBSA. No other city in #Canada has taken this step. This Human Rights Watch video of the vote brings me close to tears. #WelcomeToCanada #bcpoli 1/4

Teaching in post-secondary? You just gotta' read this: Advice | Why Students Hate Group Projects (and How to Change That) chronicle.com/article/why-st…

Get to know this month's Featured Artist, Kylie Miller of The Beaches. Q&A here: bit.ly/FeaturedArtist…

An Irish politician puts America on blast for not being a functioning democracy

Nailed it.

Agreed!

Good point, @arichardson_phi. Same is true for Douglas College. What say you?

Douglas College is growing! news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022A… Douglas College

Some research on why students may or may not turn on their cameras when learning with Zoom: facultyfocus.com/articles/onlin…

Trinity Western University's webpage about Academic Surveillance Software like Proctorio and TurnItIn: "It is important for learners to understand that educational technology professionals generally consider these tools to not be reasonable or ethical". twu.ca/academics/acad…

Absolutely agree, @veletsianos. Returning to solely in-person teaching/learning is not the right direction in this day and age.

You may need to make some minor tweaks to ensure students remain engaged. See "Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time" - bit.ly/3ft0yPK via Faculty Focus

I am honoured to be entrusted with the opening keynote address at the 20th annual Open Education Conference Open Education Conference this November. openeducationconference.org/news/opened23-…