Posts Tagged: education

U of T Engineering Rises in International Ranking

The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has leaped forward on the world stage once again. According to the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU), which is prepared by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, U of T Engineering ranks 12th…

Canadian-Made Electric Car Comes to U of T

A2B, the world’s only completely Canadian-designed, Canadian-fabricated electric car, is rolling onto the U of T campus. After collaborating over the past two years with the car’s manufacturer, Toronto Electric, Olivier Trescases, a professor in the Energy Group of The Edward…

Teaching Technology Takes Centre Stage at EdTech Workshop

How can we improve teaching and student learning? Can we connect with students through texting, or invert the traditional classroom experience altogether? These were just a few of the questions posed at U of T’s second EdTech Workshop, held at…

Can Smartphones Make Students Pay Attention?

It would be hard to find a university student these days who isn’t glued to their smartphone screen – whether outside or inside the classroom. As tech blog ReadWrite explains, “The modern classroom is alive with the clicking of laptops and…

Students Show Off Apps to Change Your Life

New mobile applications developed by U of T Electrical Engineering students could change the way we treat addiction, teach kindergartners and even how we experience a night at the theatre. Students from Professor Parham Aarabi’s Mobile Applications Lab and Professor Jonathan…
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