Resource Type: Article

Turning student groups into effective teams

Author: Barbara Oakley This article provides a solid base in the literature about effective teamwork. The appendix “Coping with hitchhikers and couch potatoes on teams” (pp. 32-34) is a pithy, practical 3-page guide for students about how to address potentially challenging teammates’ behaviours. Read Article

Sustainable embedded academic literacy development: the gradual handover of literacy teaching

Author: Lucy Macnaught, Mark Bassett, Vanessa van der Ham, John Milne & Chris Jenkin  It’s about academic literacy specialists potentially ‘getting stuck’ teaching in a limited number of tertiary courses and programs. The article explores issues and options for co-creating and then gradually ‘handing over’ literacy teaching to lecturers. It also investigates relationships between what is taught […]

Supporting Success: Aboriginal Students in Higher Education

Today, higher education is recognized as an important tool for capacity building and assisting Aboriginal communities to achieve their goals of self-determination and self-government. This paper presents some of the findings of a qualitative study conducted in a midsized Canadian postsecondary institution

Indigenization as Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: Navigating the Different Visions for Indigenizing the Canadian Academy

Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, Canadian universities and colleges have felt pressured to indigenize their institutions. What “indigenization” has looked like, however, has varied significantly. Based on the input from an anonymous online survey of 25 Indigenous academics and their allies, we assert that indigenization is a three-part spectrum. On one end is Indigenous inclusion, in the middle reconciliation indigenization, and on the other end decolonial indigenization.

From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces

This article explores the language about safe spaces, and provides guidance on how to change the conversation to become more inclusive.

Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four steps to stop being so hard on ourselves.

Author: Tara Brach Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves. To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion. The acronym RAIN, first coined about 20 years ago by Michele McDonald, is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing […]

Excellence & Equity

A more documentation and examination of the challenges in excellence and equity.

Doing away with ‘study skills’

One of my favourite articles to offer a critical perspective on our profession. This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.

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