Canada’s undergraduate university students have given the country’s smallest universities higher ratings than the large institutions for overall satisfaction and quality of education.   This is one of the findings of The Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report available in today’s newspaper and online at www.globecampus.ca. The Report is presented in association with The Strategic Counsel [...]

The University of Manitoba is hosting a free, virtual Future of Education Online Conference that will end June 8.  Live presentations will be archived, and discussion is encouraged via the “U of M” Learning Technologies Centre Moodle site: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=12 From the organizers’ description of the conference: Tumultuous change is creating new opportunities for schools, colleges, universities, and corporations [...]

Victoria News recently published an interesting article on Singularitarians in Canada whcih compared Singularitarianism with religion: At first blush, Singularitarianism may seem like a religion and has even earned from critics the label “Rapture of the Nerds.” But Singularitarianism differs from religion in one crucial aspect: its belief doesn’t depend on a supernatural power influencing [...]