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Posts from June 2006

STLHE: How well do we assess & assure quality in higher education?

Presented by Ronald Smith, Professor Emeritus, Concordia University [paper abstract] My notes here are a bit scattered. The main takeaway for me was the discussion around the importance of valuing teaching in an institution (whether that is with monetary rewards or not; although, from the discussion, it seemed clear that without the monetary reward, teaching [...]


STLHE Opening Plenary

Bob Rae, former Premier of Ontario and candidate for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, delivered the opening plenary at STLHE [abstract + profile]. He mostly addressed the state of higher education in Canada, here are a few jottings: – the needs of students are so much more diverse than the ability of the [...]


stlhe conblogging

I’m attending the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Conference at the University of Toronto for the next few days. While it’s not a library conference as such, I thought I’d blog a few of the sessions since there’s plenty to entice information literacy practitioners and instructional technology enthusiasts (not mutually exclusive [...]


on course-planning

It’s not very nice to put out a little teaser on something, promise to tell you more about it, and then just about disappear for three weeks, now is it? Of course, I’m speaking about the course I mentioned. The truth is, I haven’t buckled down to work on it nearly as conscientiously as I [...]




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