The University of Toronto (Mississauga) is requesting applications for an assistant professorship in Critical Marketing/Advertising Studies and Digital Culture in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology. The application deadline is December 4, 2023.
Trent University is advertising two, two-year limited-term appointments in Strategic Communication. The offer is open until July 19, 4:00 PM, or until filled. If you’re interested you need to act fast.
Take a look at the Careers page for the department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University for the available courses below:
CMST 2TM6 – Foundations in Communication Theory & Methods
CMST 3II3/POLSCI 3IP3 – Intellectual Property
CMST 3WR3 – Professional Writing
CMST 4D03 – International Communication
CMST 4E03 – Media and Promotionalism
CMST 4N03 – News Analysis: Theory and Practice
MEDIAART 1A03 – Media Arts
MEDIAART 2A06 – Design & Code
MEDIAART 3BB3 – New Media Art Practices
MEDIAART 3K03 – Game Studies
Note that the deadline for applications is June 16.
The Digital and Communication Studies Department of Ontario Tech University is inviting applications for a tenure-track position for July, 2023. The deadline for receipt of all applications is April 7, 2023.
This opportunity has an indirect ProCom connection. One of our tenured professors, Dr. Isabel Pedersen, joined the faculty at Ontario Tech a number of years ago, where she has continued her research into wearable tech. You can find her profile page here for information on recent publications and awards. She’s now the director of the Decimal Lab and the Digital Life Institute. If you check out her Twitter account, you’ll note she is fully engaged with the debate about AI language systems.
The University of New Brunswick is advertising a tenure-track position for an assistant professor in Communication Studies, with a health, sports or wellness specialization. Applications will be accepted before January 20, 2023.
Anyone who has seven years of professional experience in addition to a relevant Ph.D. might wish to apply for a Professor, Bachelor of Digital Communications position at Humber College in the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts. The deadline to apply is November 11, 2022.
May you have many lazy breakfasts until January…
York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design is advertising a tenure-track Teaching Stream position in Creative Technologies for the new program at York’s Markham Campus. See the full description here. The deadline for applications is December 14, 2021.
Now that we’ve been invited to consider HyFlex teaching (and some of us are well versed already), it may be time to dip into some explanations. Educause has published a short info sheet that you may find helpful. Another quick read is an article by a teacher who has experience with this mode, and she shares how she’s solved some of the problems encountered so far. If you want more, you could turn to this free online book, which includes chapters on HyFlex learning.
Not surprisingly, The Chronicle of Higher Education has recent articles on the subject. If you have a subscription, you can access two of them. In “How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom” (referring to the HyFlex model), an academic-technology expert at Stanford University advises teachers to “design a fully online class and think of the in-person part of it as an enhancement to the core of your coursework.” The reason is that trying to keep remote and in-person students engaged simultaneously can be counterproductive. If you’re worried about logistical frustrations, Kevin Gannon corroborates those fears with an amusing scenario of what it can be like to operationalize this mode of teaching in “Our Hyflex Experiment: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t”:
I hasten to add that the article doesn’t just stress “what hasn’t” worked. If any of you have some tips about what has worked for you, please share them in the comments.