Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis

Educators + tech-heads = Ed-techs, 'the symphony'

When academics and computer technicians do not work in unison a dissonance can occur in the learning provided to students as the best software application or technical solution and the most appropriate or engaging learning experience may not be harmoniously orchestrated. At CQUniversity, Australia, out of the cacophony of experiences, frustration and limitations approaches have been developed a...

Justice in Times of Crisis

Times of crisis, times of action.

At the recent Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN) Annual Meeting in November 2008 in Ottawa, I had the privilege and honour of becoming president of this dynamic organization. Founded more than 30 years ago, ACEN represents the voice of senior academic nursing leadership in Canada, helping to set directions for healthcare policy and contributing to the alignment and advancement of the n...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

The New “arms Race” in Educational Technology: Computerized Personalized Assignments vs. High-tech Cheating

For at least thirty years there has been the hope and belief that computers may be able to aid and eventually possibly replace humans in the process of teaching other humans.[1] And before the invention of the computer, similar claims were made for other technologies (the printing press, the radio, the television, the video recorder/player, ...) too. Where the computer may be qualitatively diff...