Alicia Higgison

Teaching & Learning, Openly

Category: People

Brain and heart on opposite scales held up by an arm

Math is the worst: why I hate the phrase “work life balance”

The internet has a calculator for everything. Personally math-averse, I’m thrilled when I can calculate the square meters of the ottoman I’m trying to cover & just fire off a number at the fabric lady. (*establishes domestic capabilities in the first paragraph, thereby wearing my Woman Badge appropriately.) (The internet really needs a sarcasm font.) However,
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Semester’s over.

Another semester, over. Another cohort of students moving on. “Alicia, are you off all summer?” and then I laugh and laugh. Most decidedly not. Summer is in fact when our work ramps up. It’s hard for instructors to juggle their teaching workloads with building a new course, and indeed the success of their current students
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Keepin it 100, in 2015

Missed my first CTD summary post? I’ll wait while you go back and read it…   Campus Technology Day 2015 brought back Pecha Kucha, as it was such a hit the year before. I hadn’t quite exhausted the social media bend yet, so I did another presentation on Building Your Online Brand. Rather than rely
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CampusTechnologyDay presentation, UWindsor 2014, Alicia Higgison

Campus Technology, obviously

I think it’s pretty obvious why Open Learning would participate in Campus Technology Day, right? (It should be.) I’m happy to say I’ve participated every year since 2013! The first year, our office got to introduce ourselves, which I recall was very fun but very nerve-wracking. I’d never been up in front of a room
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coffee shop, photo of floor and chairs

Storyteller.

I tell stories. I weave the mundane into something identifiable. If I do it well, you will recognize a piece of your life in the details I share of mine. I don’t think it’s enough to list out the things I do well, the things I’m terrible at, and the hopes and dreams I have
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Small and Mighty

I’m always so proud to talk about where I work, and who I work for. We’re a small little office, both in physical space and number of employees. But through some otherworldly collective determination, we manage to pull off some extraordinary accomplishments and tasks. Some of which I managed to capture in this infographic presented
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