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Huron University College turns 150 on December 2nd and will do so with a fresh, updated look that reflects a dynamic post-secondary education founded on tradition and community.

The new visual identity for Huron was officially launched on Thursday, May 9th at the meeting of the Huron University College Corporation. Showing off a refreshed logo that emphasizes the connection to Western University through the use of colour and font choice, as well as Huron’s history and tradition through elements in the shield, the new look received an enthusiastic response.

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Also presented at the launch was the video “Purple goes with Red” produced in-house available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVdmMzq9S44&feature=youtu.be

Fanshawe’s 2013/14 Strategic Plan and operating budget continues the College’s aim of creating and improving opportunities for students to access relevant, high quality education and training and is squarely focussed on helping address Ontario’s skills gap.

The $206 million operating budget and $52.8 million capital budget includes the launch of a number of new programs, building renewal and expansion, and service enhancements.

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We all agree that learning is not just studying a textbook but also interaction and communication. Until a few decades ago the latter aspect of learning was limited to the physical space of a classroom. Now however, social media has widened the dimensions of the available spaces for the social component of learning.

Socai media in education, being a relatively new concept has been the central concern of many educators, teachers and parents. In the short time that it has existed, people all over the world have welcomed it as an indispensible addition. In this article, we explore the role of social media in education, its benefits and challenges.

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Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks.

They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book at all.

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International students have become an increasingly integral part of Canada’s immigration strategy as a result of ongoing changes to federal regulations aimed at recruiting more highly skilled newcomers to the country.

The federal government has made incremental revisions to immigration rules in recent years designed to tap into this desirable pool of potential immigrants, said Harald Bauder, academic director of Ryerson University’s Centre for Immigration and Settlement. It’s been “a creeping transition” away from a system that assesses would-be economic migrants on a points system towards a two-step process that admits international students and foreign skilled workers on a temporary basis before allowing them to transition to permanent residency status.

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This past October, when Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier in a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, the alumni relations department at McGill University realized that the person who designed the outfit used for the jump was a McGill graduate.

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Over the past several years, the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) has emerged as a new structure that seeks to bring traditional models in higher education to the internet. Khan Academy, Udacity, Coursera, and other current major MOOCs all fall into two core categories based on the identity of their content generators.

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TeachThought, a U.S.-based “fluid platform that explores the best in learning innovation” looks into a crystal ball

 Guessing what the future of education holds is equal parts logic and guesswork.

The logical part is simpler–take current trends and trace their arc further, doing your best to account for minor aberrations. If the majority of public education is waist-deep in adopting new academic standards, it doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict they are going to have a strong gravity about them in the education at large.

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