Facebook AU Psychology Courses Fill the Gap. A Master of Counselling student wants to apply to the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). However, the student requires at least seven more psychology classes. Another student responds that many AU classes can be used to meet the psychology requirements for the CAP. Another student recommends the AU psychology… Read more »
Welcome Week by AUSU is an orientation for AU undergraduates September 7th at 5:00 p.m. MT on Zoom will mark the second annual Welcome Week by AUSU. The free event welcomes new and continuing AU undergraduate students and provides an introduction (or refresher) to student life at the university. The event includes a “Top 5… Read more »
It was Kelowna’s unhappy turn to fill news headlines this week. We turned to The Voice archives to visit the area in other times. A matter of hours. Twenty years ago, Rebecca Flann describes the surreal experience of, while returning from an outing to a lake, getting caught up in a convoy of evacuees. “The… Read more »
Scholarship name: Syncrude/Athabasca University Aboriginal Scholarship Sponsored by: Syncrude and AU Deadline: September 30, 2023 Potential payout: $2000 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be residents of Alberta and of Aboriginal ancestry (Status/Non-Status Indian, Inuit or Métis), and current or new AU students studying full-time in AU’s Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Management, or Bachelor of Science… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Aug 29, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Library Chat Wed, Aug 30, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Library… Read more »
Microbiology is about more than wearing bookish spectacles; a lot of fascinating lab work is involved. In this posting, tar sands water shall be investigated by utilizing “whole cell bacterial biosensors for the detection of organic compounds (naphthenic acids and others) in tailings ponds wastewater”. Some compounds are more desirable than others, not unlike weeds… Read more »
Reddit AI Flagged. A poster said an essay was rejected because it was mistakenly flagged as being sourced from AI. To test the claim, the user tried several AI checkers and received inconsistent results. Even an email was flagged as AI-generated–more so than the essay. Another user said that Grammarly, too, can be flagged as… Read more »
This posting includes the title “course inspirer”, so that says a lot. It’s about content creation within a digital educational context. The successful applicant with have “strong experience in both synchronous and asynchronous online education” and “connectivist design approaches”. The idea here is to work on the design and evaluation of course material, a constant… Read more »
Library Chat Tues, Aug 22, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Library Chat Wed, Aug 23, 10:30 am to 2:30 pm MDT Online Hosted by AU Library www.athabascau.ca/library/index.html No pre-registration needed; access through chat box on home page Library… Read more »
The recent images of devastation from wind-whipped wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui prompted us to sift through the archives for reference to that state of “Aloha Spirit.” Those islands between Toronto and Sydney. Travelling AU student Philip Kirkbride recounts his arrival on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. “It wasn’t long after landing that… Read more »