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Cooking the Course from Scratch: An Implementation Guide for In-Class and Online Faculty Development Workshop
No full textApplying course design fundamentals grounded in sound pedagogy is a critical first step when creating outcome-based, student-centred learning experiences. In the described three-hour workshop, the participants worked collaboratively to design a learning activity that included recognition of prerequisite skills and learning outcomes aligned with both instructional strategies and assessment processes. On completion of the activity, each group presented to all participants who, along with facilitators, provided constructive feedback on all components of the designed activity. Workshop satisfaction feedback from seven sessions (four in-class and three online) indicates that the participants were highly satisfied and felt more confident in applying the fundamentals when designing learning activities for their courses.
Keywords: course design, learning experience, teaching, educational development
Reconciliation Through Education: A Model of Ethical Spaces and Relationality
No full textAs more alarming truths are being revealed around the horrors of the residential schooling system in Canada, educators are being called to decolonize and Indigenize their teaching practices. As post-secondary teacher educators working in Indigenous education who have gained valuable insights around this difficult teaching, the authors offer readers a conceptual model of reconciliatory education. The model invites educators to move beyond colonial schooling practices to embrace decolonizing and Indigenizing approaches and the powerful potential of relational teaching and learning. Envisioned as an ethical space residing between Indigenizing and decolonizing practices and animated by truth-telling and critical thinking, the extended infinity model, presented in this article, shows the dynamic nature of teaching and learning that occurs when relating together through commitments to decolonizing and Indigenizing. While purposefully engaging in an ethos of ethical relationality, the model carries transformative potential for teaching and learning
Transformative Curriculum Design through Open Educational Resource Creation
No full textAt their best, open educational resources (OER) are known to foster equity, accessibility, and flexibility for users and include multiple perspectives from a collaborative community for creators and contributors (Hylén, 2006). Therefore, when planning our university’s first offering of a week-long course (re)design workshop (based on Saroyan & Amundsen, 2004), recognizing we had been primarily using materials from other post-secondary institutions, we opted to create resources specific to our university through a one-day facilitated writing sprint. Moving beyond offering information simply for course design, we decided to create an OER that encompasses three main areas of curriculum planning and design: composition, mapping, and alignment of learning outcomes; choice and alignment of instructional strategies and learning activities; and alignment of outcomes assessment at all levels. During the OER content development stage, the group also recognized the opportunity to position the OER, named CRICKET, as a community building tool, focusing on learning re-design. The site not only hosts curriculum planning and design information, it also features an OER authoring tool that invites participants to share their work with their peers. Through our OER creation process, we determined that OER have the potential to transform not only how information is disseminated and used, but also how it is created
Free and Always Will Be? On Social Media Participation as it Undermines Individual Autonomy
No full textSocial media participation undermines individual autonomy in ways that ought to concern ethicists. Discussions in the philosophical literature are concerned primarily with egregious conduct online such as harassment and shaming, keeping the focus on obvious ills to which no one could consent; this prevents a wider understanding of the risks and harms of quotidian social media participation. Two particular concerns occupy me: social media participation carries the risks of (1) negatively formative experiences and (2) continuous partial attention due to our habituation to the variable rewards that social media platforms provide. Although social media offer benefits as well as risks, self-knowledge of whether one benefits more than one suffers from one’s social media participation is vexed by the very processes involved in participating. We are not as free to leave social media as we are to enter. I conclude with a consideration and rejection of the objections that the ubiquity of the practice indicates implied consent to risks, and that users of social media can simply choose not to use such communication technologies at all. I argue that we cannot be said to consent to enter into social media usage meaningfully, even implicitly, and we do not all have equally easy options to avoid the contexts that provide the stimuli of persistent desires
La portée étendue de la pensée multivariable
No full textSimple explanations are very often inadequate and can encourage faulty inferences. We examined college students’ explanations regarding illegal immigration to determine the prevalence of single-factor explanations. The form of students’ explanations was predicted by their responses on a simple three-item forced-choice multivariable causal reasoning task in which they selected the strongest evidence against a causal claim. In a further qualitative investigation of explanations by a sample of community adults, we identified positive features among those who scored high on this multivariable causal reasoning task. We consider limitations of single-factor reasoning and means of encouraging more comprehensive explanations to support claims.Les explications simples sont très souvent inadéquates et peuvent encourager des inférences erronées. Nous avons examiné les explications des étudiants concernant l\u27immigration illégale afin de déterminer la prévalence des explications fondées sur un seul facteur. La forme des explications des étudiants a été prédite par leurs réponses à une simple tâche de raisonnement causal multivariable à choix forcé de trois éléments dans laquelle ils ont sélectionné la preuve la plus solide contre une affirmation causale. Dans une autre enquête qualitative sur les explications fournies par un échantillon d\u27adultes de la communauté, nous avons identifié des caractéristiques positives parmi ceux qui ont obtenu une note élevée dans cette tâche de raisonnement causal multivariable. Nous examinons les limites du raisonnement à facteur unique et les moyens d\u27encourager des explications plus complètes pour étayer les affirmations
Examen de l\u27argumentation des Philosophes : Une Collaboration Contradictoire sur le Débat Russell-Copleston
No full textThis article reviews Fernando Leal and Hubert Marraud’s How Philosopher’s Argue: An Adversarial Collaboration on the Russell-Copleston Debate (Springer 2022).Cet article est une critique de How Philosophers Argue: An Adversarial Collaboration on the Russell-Copleston Debate (Springer 2018) de Fernando Leal and Humbert Marraud
Tracing Colonial Entrenchments in the Development of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
No full textSri Lanka’s recent tumultuous economic crisis has generated grave uncertainty in the global financial ecosystem. Sri Lanka’s fiscal demise, described as the “canary in the coalmine”, has served as a glaring cautionary tale for financial regulators. The International Financial Institutions continue to warn of subsequent economic fallouts as global debt issues simmer to the surface. Sri Lanka’s economic fallout serves as a story besieged by colonial, political and current geopolitical conditions, which are further compounded by the end of the brutal civil war, foreign debt and post Covid-19 consequences. This paper, however, explores the cracks in the economic foundation using historical moments that paved the legal framework for the emergence of a centralized banking institution. This historical inquiry includes the origins of the financial inclusion discourse in Sri Lanka, which encompasses both colonial and post-colonial temporalities. As a result of Sri Lanka’s fiscal collapse, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s role has been under scrutiny. The economic crisis began in 2019, yet the financial regulator’s failure to engage in mitigating tactics to combat the rapid decrease in foreign reserves, rise in sovereign debt, financial mismanagement and political interference is underexplored. In order to further understand how the CBSL, the country’s first financial steward and custodian of fiscal stability, became ineffective, a closer examination of its genesis is made. This paper serves to examine the formation of centralized banking through a particular conceptual goal of ‘financial inclusion’, which catalyzed the establishment of the current central bank structure in Sri Lanka. As such, the financial policies designed and developed crafted by the financial regulator are explored through the lens of financial inclusion.La crise économique qui a récemment dévasté le Sri Lanka a généré une grande incertitude dans l’écosystème financier mondial. La situation catastrophique du Sri Lanka, décrit comme le « canari dans la mine de charbon », a servi de mise en garde retentissante pour les organismes de réglementation du secteur financier. Les institutions financières internationales continuent à prévoir des répercussions économiques au fur et à mesure que les problèmes d’endettement mondiaux émergent à la surface. Le passé colonial et politique du Sri Lanka et les conditions géopolitiques actuelles auxquelles ce pays est soumis sont en grande partie responsables des graves problèmes financiers du pays, que n’ont fait qu’accentuer la fin d’une guerre civile brutale, la dette étrangère et les conséquences de la COVID-19. Cependant, cet article traite des fissures dans la base économique en mettant l’accent sur des événements passés qui ont façonné le cadre juridique entourant la naissance d’une institution bancaire centralisée.
Cette recherche historique retrace notamment les origines du discours sur l’inclusion financière au Sri Lanka, qui couvre des périodes tant coloniales que postcoloniales. En raison de la déroute financière du Sri Lanka, le rôle de la banque centrale du pays est surveillé de près. La crise économique a commencé en 2019; pourtant, l’inertie de l’organisme, qui n’a pris aucune mesure d’atténuation pour lutter contre la dégringolade des réserves étrangères, la hausse de la dette souveraine, la mauvaise gestion financière et l’ingérence politique, demeure encore mal comprise. Afin de permettre de mieux comprendre comment la banque centrale du Sri Lanka, la première institution financière gardienne et garante de la stabilité financière du pays, a perdu toute efficacité, l’auteure explore dans cet article les origines et l’évolution de l’organisme. Elle examine également la formation d’un système bancaire centralisé sous l’angle particulier de l’objectif d’inclusion financière, qui a favorisé la mise sur pied de la structure bancaire centralisée observée aujourd’hui au Sri Lanka. Dans ce contexte, les politiques financières conçues et élaborées par l’organisme de réglementation du secteur financier sont explorées du point de vue de l’inclusion financièr
Acoustic Field Simulation and Initial Safety Measurements of a Novel Ultrasound Probe for the Diagnosis of Intracranial Hemorrhages
No full textUltrasound imaging of brain tissue features and abnormalities is notoriously difficult through the skull because of the high attenuation and skull-induced phase aberration. A custom-designed transcranial matrix probe with a novel adaptive beamforming method has been developed at Tessonics Inc., Windsor, Ontario. The technology corrects for skull-induced distortions in the reconstructed sonograms. The current goal is to diagnose intracranial hemorrhages with the motivation of reducing the time between an injury and appropriate aid. In emergency situations, a portable point-of-care device may save vital time and reduce fatalities. Conventional screening methods, like computed tomography, do not offer the portability, low-cost, and non-ionizing radiation benefits that ultrasound imaging provides. Ultrasonography is also non-invasive and allows for real-time imaging. The analysis of the acoustic field for the ultrasound probe is an integral part of device development. Standards for ultrasound machine intensity output must be met to eliminate the risk of damage to body tissues. Simulations of the acoustic field are created through the Fast Object-oriented C++ Ultrasound Simulation (FOCUS) software based on desired focal points. The measurements and simulations presented in this work will ensure patient safety for future testing. 
Running a Policython: Creating Epistemic Opportunities for Students
No full textThis paper provides a structure for running a policython based on the shared experiences of student leaders and a collaborating faculty member. A policython, like a hackathon, is an experiential learning event where students think critically about public policy, engage in a case study, and share their ideas with community leaders for feedback and consideration. Students are presented with a societal challenge, a short timeline, some open-source documents for review and an opportunity to share their insights and policy solutions. Students learn policymaking strategies during the event, engage in a known public debate, and become epistemic contributors by sharing their ideas. The main goal of the policython is a pedagogical exercise. The capability approach underpins the pedagogical framework of the event. This paper includes author reflections about challenges, opportunities, and successes and recommendations and resources for faculty and student leaders who want to launch a policython