From the beginning of 2007 until the summer of 2017…

I got to know Gordon within a few months of arriving…

Common ground, a dialogue on curiosity…

An interview with Dr.Ron Burnett…

As I thought about the problem of the border, the idea of borders, places in between other places, or as a colleague recently suggested to me, the space between a set of open brackets . . .

Nigel Lockyr is the Director of the Fermi Lab in Chicago and the former Director of TRIUMF at the University of British Columbia. We had a debate on the relationship between the sciences and the arts at Emily Carr University recently . . .

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has been in the news for the last two years.

Over the course of the last forty years, Canada’s universities, colleges and K-12 educational systems have performed extraordinarily well.

I have worked as a teacher and administrator for over forty years and the following reflections on context and communications are a product of my effort to understand and change the way our educational institutions think about teaching and learning.

To me, the experience of learning is dependent upon the context in which it takes place.

I have begun and not completed a couple of MOOC-type courses. I have also looked into and closely examined many others.

If you think the target audience for the MOOC you are about to launch could include a lot of inexperienced learners, then as a teacher, you have the obligation to provide for them ways in which they can be supported.

MOOCS are an exciting development in the story of distance learning. However, massive open online courses are part of a long tradition in the history of learning technologies. 

Learning both in the classroom and outside the classroom is generally approached in a linear fashion.

In the early 1990’s, I taught a course entitled, Introduction to Film at McGill University, that had six hundred registered students in it.

We need to understand that the creative act is never singular in character or in action, never clearly purposive although filled with intention.

Digital cultures are hugely democratizing because they encourage many different forms of creative output, but this does not mean that the works being produced will find a significant place in our society.

It is always a challenge to talk about culture, but in particular to offer by way of discourse something new on a subject that is as old as civilization itself.

Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in my hand, and just as no one can sense the world as I perceive it around me, no one can teach me. 

I stand here tonight feeling both proud and humbled. Proud because so much about culture and creativity is affirmed by this honour, and humbled because I have been chosen to receive this prestigious award from the French government.