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20 septembre 2015

Tips for grads and postdocs applying for a SSHRC grant

By Natalie Samson. For graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Canada, applying for awards from a national funding agency like the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council can seem like a shot in the dark. University Affairs reached out to Jean-François Fortin, director of SSHRC’s research training portfolio, and Roxanne Dompierre, acting manager of SSHRC’s research training portfolio, for information on the council’s graduate and postdoc funding opportunities, tips for crafting your application and behind-the-scenes insight on how the application review process works. More...

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20 septembre 2015

Transition Q & A: Pablo Dominguez Andersen

By Jennifer Polk. During my first year I was pretty sure that I would eventually become a professor. I enjoyed research, writing and teaching. I was good at it. I knew that the job market was difficult, but I was confident that I would eventually land a position at a university. More...

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20 septembre 2015

Looking South: the NIH’s 2016 fiscal outlook

By Jonathan Thon. It’s time again for what has become (much to my dismay) an annual article series that began in fiscal year 2012 on the uncertain health of National Institutes of Health’s fiscal outlook (see 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012). More...

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20 septembre 2015

One exchange student’s tale of reverse culture shock

By Pierre-Alexandre Bolduc. After 26 hours of flying I had arrived. It was 7:03 a.m. and the sun was rising over the island of Singapore. It was 29 degrees Celsius outside with 85 percent humidity; at that moment I realized I didn’t need to have brought my favorite hoodie. More...

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20 septembre 2015

University officers can resume providing immigration advice to foreign students

By Rosanna Tamburri. Universities and other educational institutions have reached a pact with the federal regulatory body that certifies immigration consultants to create a new certification stream and training program specifically tailored to the needs of international student advisers at these institutions. More...

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20 septembre 2015

University Affairs nominated for seven Canadian Online Publishing Awards

By Natalie Samson. University Affairs has scored seven nominations in six categories at the 2015 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The website is vying for gold in the following categories in the business-to-business media division. More...

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20 septembre 2015

Science Literacy Week rolls out across Canada

By Natalie Samson. From Sept. 21 to 27, nearly 30 universities will host public events in celebration of science. More...

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20 septembre 2015

#MOOC use in secondary school (k12) for non-native English/French speakers

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The last couple of weeks I have been working on a project with a secondary school (GUSCO school in Kortrijk, Belgium). Which resulted in some first explorations, shared in a previous post when I was still looking for a sound method. By now the direction, three teachers and 42 students have launched a class (well, three classes, but one sort of class) in which they combine MOOC with CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning). This means that all participating students are non-native English/French speakers (most of them speak Dutch, some have another mother tongue due to migration history), and they explore content provided in MOOCs on a voluntary basis to train their language skills and learn more about a topic of their interest. Read more...

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20 septembre 2015

#Ectel2015 presentation Self-Directed Learning dimensions #MOOC

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The EC-TEL conference is organised in Toledo, Spain, and I just got my slides ready for the presentation on Thursday. It will be a short paper based presentation, describing the background, method, challenges ... of investigating Self-Directed Learning experiences with adult learners, covering learners that were engaged in 3 FutureLearn courses (a brand of MOOC courses).
The short paper is available through Academia here. Read more...

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20 septembre 2015

@ectel2015 Using MOOC and CLIL with 16 - 17 year old students instruments & set-up

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Just arrived at the EC-TEL conference in Toledo, Spain. And finalised a second set of slides together with my colleague Kathy Demeulenaere (GUSCO), focusing on a project set up by GUSCO school (k12) to integrate MOOCs into CLIL lessons.
The overview paper is available through Academia here. Read more...

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