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Contract teaching at a Canadian University
So yesterday, a story on Buzzfeed broke about an extremely prominent member of…
I’ve been thinking quite a lot about autism for the last little while, because I am an autism Dad. My…
This is a graphic showing the effectiveness at retaining information taught using various different methods.
This is what I wrote to my first-year engineering students, when the results for their first year…
This week, the New York Times magazine asked its readers a question: “If you had a…
The picture shows Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in a simplistic form. A large mass, in this…
At many Universities in the English-speaking world, a large portion of the teaching is now done by temporary labour, working on contract from semester to semester. I am one of them. In Ontario, the proportion of university teaching done by…
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