Academic publishing disproportionately privileges English-language and Western journals and presses, leaving little place to contextualize and value scholarly material published outside academia (particularly in terms of publication material of benefit to community collaborators), outside the Western context, or in languages other than English. Please join the Jackman Humanities Institute and guest speakers Shawna-KayeTucker (Assistant Professor, Applied […]

Are you curious about finding teaching materials to support student learning? Or perhaps you are interested in developing teaching materials that all students can access? Celebrate Open Education Week and learn how Open Educational Resources (OER) can be optimized for instructional use in this interactive workshop. OER reduces the financial barrier to access materials for […]

Do you want to develop your R skills to advance your data science skills? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop gently introduces users to intermediate level tools in R including the dplyr package for data manipulation, if statements, for loops and functions. It is […]

This session focuses on accessible content creation practices. Techniques for conceptualizing, creating and maintaining accessible documents will be discussed and how to build these into department wide processes. A heavy emphasis is placed on why those techniques are important, and the ramifications of formatting decisions. This event is hosted by the Accessibility For Ontarians With […]