These McGill Survey Results Will Make You Giggle

Published on 2015-03-24 by Stuart Spence

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Prepare to be amused and blown away. If you're a university student you may think your department is bad, but McGill's education department is worse. For several years now McGill education students report having the most boring, most random, most tuition-wasting, and most impossible-to-fail courses. This makes me really sad …

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Mike Shortt Reports: Methodology

Published on 2015-03-24 by Stuart Spence

This post gives more details on the surveys and methodology, if you're interested. I decided it was too boring for a general audience so I cut it out of my original post. But you are an eager beaver! So here you go. And feel free to send me a message …

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Why Do For-Profit Companies Give Software to Schools?

Published on 2015-03-07 by Stuart Spence

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Have you ever noticed that for-profit companies often advertise free or cheap software licenses to students, teachers, and schools?

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and countless others all offer deals on their software and services to schools. Why do they do that?

This post is written for educators, not tech experts …

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Things McGill Education Students Don't Know

Published on 2015-01-27 by Stuart Spence

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Frustration

Is this a real exam, or a fiction fabricated by someone frustrated with the bachelor of education program? You decide.

More seriously, here are some details if you're interested. The parody exam spawned from my frustration that McGill university in Montreal (which is supposedly one of Canada's top schools …

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