Worldviews 2013 is pleased to announce that the Carnegie Corporation is once again sponsoring our event. This sponsorship will enable us to continue moving ahead with planning and organizing the conference. Their funding is invaluable and will ensure a successful conference with leading speakers and participants from around the world…. Read more…
Worldviews 2013 sponsors include Oxford University Press, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Rochester, Academica Group, and the University of Toronto. The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and it publication, Academic Matters, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, University World News and Inside… Read more…
The Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education is pleased to announce part of its stellar line-up of guest speakers including: – Sir John Daniel, former Assistant Director-General, Unesco, and former President of the Commonwealth of Learning; – Andrew Keen, the author of “CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How The… Read more…
The Worldsviews Conference on Media and Higher Education is pleased to announce that the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto will be the host of some of the conference sessions.
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Ann Rauhala, a former journalist now teaching at Ryerson University, says the worlds of academe and journalism are not quite the two solitudes they seem.
CLIMATE scientists must sometimes feel that they’re taking part in some horrific, humourless worldwide game of Chinese Whispers.
After spending months, in some cases years, diligently carrying out research, checking, re-checking and quantifying observations and data, they submit their discovery to a science journal.
Journal editors then send that work out to other scientists who pick holes in it, or praise it, before sending it back with the academic equivalents of those smiley faces or red crosses that school teachers loved to draw on your school books.
Issues with the research are then rectified (if they can be) and finally the work is published. Except of course, that’s not the end of the story.