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Celia Popovic – Bridging the teaching /research divide

Celia Popovic, Guest blogger The launch this month of a new teaching and learning site on York University’s website has prompted a flurry of emails from colleagues within and beyond the university commenting on the prominence we have given to teaching. As we all know, websites are prime real estate in the virtual world and […]

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Harvey P. Weingarten – Outcomes-Based Funding: Part 1. Successful models start with psychology 101

HEQCO released a report this week providing an extensive review of outcomes-based funding models used in postsecondary education and their effectiveness.  Outcomes-based funding is a practice where institutions receive their funding, partially or totally, on the basis of performance, specifically, the achievement of agreed-upon goals or outcomes (I use the terms “outcomes-based funding” and “performance-based […]