BY AARON BARLOW One of my biggest fears for higher education brought on by the coronavirus crisis is that the confluence of forced online learning and a casualized faculty will be grasped by cash-strapped administrators to create a new and cheaper model for both course offerings and faculty employment. The new model makes tremendous sense…
BY TAMMIE CUMMING, M. DAVID MILLER, FREDRIK DEBOER, AND JENNIFER BERGERON It seems that almost no aspect of academic life has been untouched by the coronavirus pandemic and the drastic measures governments and institutions have taken to respond to it. Nearly every postsecondary institution has adopted distance learning, forcing many faculty and students to adapt…
BY AARON BARLOW We have been using digital technologies as tools in our pedagogical kits, generally speaking, for a couple of decades. The battle for “smart” classrooms is over; we can’t imagine teaching in an environment where we do not have internet access and immediate projection. We use music and video in the classroom as…