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    Exploring Open Education Across the Hemispheres
    (2023-06-06) Quail, Stephanie; Coysh, Sarah; Carmini, Priscilla
    On June 6, 2023, this live Zoom workshop was presented to members of the Hemispheric University Consortium’s (HUC) Library Network group. During the workshop, participants discussed the value of open educational resources (OER) and how they can improve the affordability, quality, and accessibility of course learning materials for post-secondary students. UNESCO (n.d.) defines OER as “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions" (https://www.unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources). The workshop covered the following topics: (1) Defining the key characteristics of OER (2) Developing skills in searching for OER (3) Describing some of the benefits OER for students & faculty (4) Discussing open licensing models including Creative Commons licenses The interactive workshop concluded with an activity where participants co-developed a list of potential resources and tools for collaboratively developing OER across HUC institutions.
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    Special Focus: Migration, Asylum and Refuge during a Pandemic: Perspectives of Migrants, Researchers and Practitioners
    (Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues (ESPMI) Network, 2022-01) Douhaibi, Dacia; Kuzemska, Lidia; Szelei, Nikolett
    Volume V of the Refugee Review journal entitled ‘Migration, Asylum and Refuge during a Global Pandemic: Perspectives of Migrants, Researchers and Practitioners’ explores four thematic areas related to the impact of global pandemic. Our first area of interest is "the effects of border closures and establishment of strict health protocols on mobility and immobility." Górczyńska looks at severely curtailed access to asylum at the borders of Poland that took place well before the recent migration ‘crisis’ at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021. She argues that pandemic restrictions were used by the Polish authorities to justify border closures and denying access to asylum well before the pandemic. Haden analyses the sub-Saharan migrant communities in Morocco to explore the consequences of the externalization and securitization of the European Union’s migration and border policies to its neighbour countries on migrants’ access to healthcare. Nabi looks specifically at the situation of refugees in Lesbos during the Covid-19 and argues that refugees’ lives became a biopolitical terrain of struggle between efforts for invisibility by the states and the EU and visibility by the refugees. Bendel, Fackler and Wiese summarise the series of three online events where experts debated challenges to human rights of refugees that arose due to Covid-19 taking the cases of Western Africa, Libya, Greek island of Lesbos and Bavaria (Germany). The second area of interest for us to explore is "the intersectionality and COVID-19." For instance, Bhat explores the impact of Covid-19 on transnational care practices of Nigerian migrant women in Southern Europe. The paper argues that cross-border lens allows us to see broader impact of pandemic restrictions on marginalised communities at origin and destination countries. Owigo analyses the challenges Somalian women-returnees from Saudi Arabia face and gendered vulnerabilities they experience during migration cycle. Hucke explores the case of lesbian migrant women in South Africa who feel themselves in a situation of ‘double quarantine’ due to dual restrictions caused by the pandemic and restricted access to support. The third theme of this volume is "the impact of pandemic on the welfare of migrant communities." Kinawi focuses on the protection gap experienced by the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, whose socio-economic rights are not protected. Tobin, Momani, and Al Yakoub compare the impact of coronavirus prevention measures on Syrian refugees in Jordan who reside in camps and those who live in urban areas. Taking example of Bengaluru (India), Mangur and Sengupta look at the help provided by the civil society organisations to migrant labourers stranded by the lockdown. Golesorkhi, Fortson and Riedmann explore the impact of pandemic-related immobility exacerbated by the restrictions paused by the racial justice protests on mental health and livelihoods of refugees in Portland (US). This section concludes with reflections of impacts of the pandemic on migrant communities through the lens of two artists. Moran’s poem ‘Old Age Home’ painfully traces the experiences of a family Elder, lamenting the way he or she was pushed out of the family in old age. Through his work ‘Selfish Healthy’, De Santo illustrates the silent environmental externality of the pandemic – the significant waste produced. Finally, we are interested in "what noticeable and tangible changes the pandemic brought to lives and work of practitioners and migrants in all aspects of their lives." Cabitza, Da Mosto, Lesi and Levi discuss not only the intersectional impact of Covid-19 on women refugees and asylum seekers residing in reception centre in Bologna. They also explore the impact of pandemic on social workers who face increased workload and stricter rules they needed to abound. Totah explores how migrant artists from Arab region experienced lockdowns and expressed resilience in the face of the pandemic through their artwork.
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    ‘Governments base performance-based funding on global rankings indicators’: A global trend in higher education finance or a global rankings literature fiction? A comparative analysis of four performance-based funding programs
    (2020-05-08) Adam, Edmund
    For nearly two decades now, the rankings literature has continued to suggest that governments are adopting performance-based funding models which prioritize criteria favored by global rankings. This study examines this assertion by analyzing the performance-based funding programs of Austria, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. The study finds that the orientation of performance-based funding on global rankings is weaker than it is commonly assumed. Except for Finland, the funding volume universities raise from this orientation is not substantial to influence the institutional performance. The study also analyzes the recent structural changes to performance-based funding in each jurisdiction. Policy implications are provided in the conclusion for higher education systems revising their performance-based funding or considering a shift to performance-based accountability.
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    The Financial Wellness Project
    (2021) Cheng, Nicholas; Diep, Jennifer; Hui, Kaman; Sahota, Simi; Palmero, Maria; Rawana, Jennine; Hamadeh, Mazen; Stypka, Agata; Pillai, Hari Chand Balachandran; Ahmad, Hashir; Labana, Deepinderjit Kaur
    A partnership between the Emery Collegiate Institute (Toronto, Ontario) and York University's Calumet and Stong Colleges established a team of student volunteers from York and Emery that brought an idea into reality. A peer-led financial wellness project follows three characters as they age from 18 to 30 and learn about how their individual money attitudes influence their financial behaviours. Funded by York-TD Community Engagement Centre, this project aims to reduce the financial anxiety experienced by students, parents, and teachers, and aid in a successful post-secondary transition.
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    Tuan Nguyen