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Chapter One’s Online Reading Volunteers (ORV) program supports corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and equity and inclusion in education. Targeting schools with a high percentage of students coming from low-income families according to the federal Title 1 program, ORV started in Chicago, then expanded to New York City and Detroit in 2012.
Open educational resources in Canada are the various initiatives related to open education, open educational resources (OER), open pedagogies (OEP), open educational practices (OEP), and open scholarship that are established nationally and provincially across Canadian K-12 and higher education sectors, and where Canadian based inititatives extend to international collaborations.
Cuso International, then Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), was launched on June 6, 1961, by a group of Canadian university graduates. [5] Established as a national organization at a meeting at McGill University in Montréal, Cuso was to become the national non-denominational coordinating agency for recruiting Canadian volunteers for services overseas.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; French: Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH), often colloquially pronounced 'shirk' (/ ʃ ɜːr k /), is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences. [2]
Mila is both a research and educational institution, providing postdoc and internship positions, and providing a research environment for students enrolled in their respective universities and working towards their graduate degrees such as PhD and Master's degrees in machine learning. Mila members have also contributed to open-source software.
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) is a federally focused student advocacy organization. CASA currently has 24 members, who represent over 275,000 students from across Canada. CASA currently has 24 members, who represent over 275,000 students from across Canada.
Expenditures by Canadian universities on scientific research and development accounted for about 40% of all spending on scientific research and development in Canada in 2006. Research in the natural and social sciences in Canada, with a few important exceptions, is almost exclusively funded by the Canadian taxpayer and is distributed to ...
Volunteers who travel to assist may learn foreign culture and language. "Volunteering can give the students the sufficient experience in order to support and strengthen their CVs and resumes." [25] Volunteering in schools can be an additional teaching guide for the students and help to fill the gap of local teachers. Cultural and language ...