Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »
The site Code.org is a non-profit organization that wants to increase the number of students, particularly underrepresented groups such as women or students of color, who are taking computing science. Their current campaign is to try to get people to learn one hour of coding skills, skills that will be invaluable in just about any… Read more »
Winter Sprinter Just a quick little one-button game, where you try to keep your snowman running long enough to get to the refrigerator truck. Spongelab also has other holiday themed games from previous years, including perhaps the weirdest take I’ve ever seen on The Incredible Voyage. On Display This is 10 of the most amazing… Read more »
Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »
At Home: Scientific Data Lost The Globe and Mail is reporting that a recent study at UBC found that most scientific data gathered is lost within a generation. Researcher Tim Vines did an examination of 516 international zoological studies archived at the UBC zoology department and found that about 80% of the data over two… Read more »
At Home:Quebec Education Minister deals with Sit-In The group Collectif éducation sans frontières organized a sit-in at the office of the Education Minister in Quebec on Tuesday morning. The purpose of the occupation was to demand a commitment from the minister to open Quebec’s primary and secondary schools to “non-status immigrant children”, or more simply,… Read more »
With the arrival of online courses, from MOOCs to SPOCs to everything in between, the question becomes not if there’s a course for your particular interest, but rather where it is that you can find it. To help with that, the site Online College Courses has been created, providing a list of open college courses… Read more »
Friday the 13th If you’re reading this, you’ve made it through another Friday the 13th alive. The next one will happen in June of 2014, but until then, you can look at this link to see the history of the day and how it became known as an unlucky one. On Display From tales about… Read more »
Last Monday’s Council Meeting was fairly uneventful. Unfortunately, Council has adopted something called a “consent agenda”, which has essentially hidden all Council activity from the students who may attend. Students who attend receive only the agenda, and while there are various reports submitted by the AUSU Executive, staff, and committee chairs, none of those are… Read more »
Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »