Promoting Durable and Efficient Learning: Useful Insights from Cognitive Science
Do tests only measure learning, or can they also promote learning? Should students review/practice the material they are trying to learn soon after they encounter the material or should they wait a while? During practice, should items of the same type/topic be grouped together or should they be interspersed among items of other types/topics?
Internships now available to ArtSci students
Students in the Faculty of Arts and Science will have the opportunity to get job experience before graduating with the creation of the Arts and Science Internship Program.
Queen's succeeds in Ontario Online funding
In 2014, Ontario’s government announced that it would establish a new collaborative Centre of Excellence that aims to drive new online learning opportunities for university and college students across the province.&nbs
A Night at the Proms at the Isabel
Anglophiles, it’s time to warm up your vocal chords and unfurl your Union Jacks: the Queen’s School of Music is holding its first ‘proms’ concert at the Isabel and you’re invited.
Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award
This year's list of Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award Recipients was announced.
Semester in Shanghai Information Session
Professor James Miller will hold an information session for the program on Wednesday, February 11 from 5:30-6:30pm in Kingston Hall 200. The program allows you to spend your fall term in Shanghai, taking courses in English that count towards a wide range of Queen's plans in the humanities and social sciences.
Researcher lends expertise to oil spills panel
Queen’s University professor Peter Hodson has joined a new Royal Society of Canada panel that will study oil spills and their impacts on freshwater and marine environments.
Screening sparks surveillance discussion
Queen’s University surveillance expert David Lyon will speak following the Kingston premiere of Citizenfour, a critically acclaimed documentary about Edward Snowden.