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FELLOW at VANIER COLLEGE, YORK UNIVERSITY
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ADJUNCT FACULTY at SENECA POLYTECHNIC
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ADJUNCT FACULTY at GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE of APPLIED ARTS & TECHNOLOGY
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CONSULTANT at HUMBER POLYTECHNIC (where I perform Research, Training, Policy Analysis, Curriculum Review, and Course Development as a preferred vendor)
Edward Fenner, MA
I am a publisher, editor, writer, college faculty member, independent researcher, learning consultant, corporate trainer, communications strategist, project manager, historian, rabologist, playwright, blogger, mature student, and more. How may I help you?
Updates:​
August 2024-March 2025: I created 9 micro-credential courses (plus updated 1 other) for Humber Polytechnic's Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) unit.
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October 2024: I lent my services to Toronto Hydro to help them improve their technical communication skills.
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September 2024: My plate was full last Fall with 11 courses taught: 5 for Seneca Polytechnic, 5 for George Brown College, and 1 corporate training workshop assignment at Toronto Hydro for Humber Polytechnic CPL.
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August 2024: I volunteered at Toronto's historic Scadding Cabin (1794) during the CNE in support of the York Pioneer & Historical Society.
August 2024: I deleted my Twitter/X account after 15 years. It's deteriorated into a toxic environment that I want no part of anymore.
April 2024: My article "The Search for the Exact Site of Toronto's Last Duel" is published in The York Pioneer, the annual journal of the York Pioneer and Historical Society.
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Summer 2023: Received certificates in:
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Working Together: The Code and the AODA
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AODA General Requirements
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AODA Employment Standard
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AODA Information and Communication Standard
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AODA Customer Service Standard
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Winter 2023: Late that winter I began volunteering with the York Pioneer and Historical Society to help out with outreach communications including their social media and a new website.
March 2021: Received certificate in REDI (Respect, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) training from York University.
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February 2021: Received the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans Course on Research Ethics (TCPS 2: CORE Certificate).
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Micro-credential Course Creation:
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Fall 2024 & Winter 2025:
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Humber Polytechnic, Continuous Professional Learning (CPL). Created 9 new micro-credential courses and updated 1 existing course.
RFP & Proposal Consulting:
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Summer & Fall 2024:
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Humber Polytechnic, Continuous Professional Learning (CPL).
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Certificate Program Review & Analysis:
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Spring 2024:
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Humber College, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning (CPL).
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Policy Research & Analysis:
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Spring & Fall 2023:
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Humber College, Continuous Professional Learning (CPL).
College Teaching:
Winter 2025:
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As a partial-load faculty, I am teaching four courses for Seneca Polytechnic's School of English & Liberal Studies (daytime): EAC594 - Business Communication for the Digital Workplace (3 online classes, 1 in-person).
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As a part-time faculty, I will be teaching three online courses for George Brown College's Continuing Education unit: Technical Editing, Technical Documentation: Advanced Concepts, and COMM 2017 - Communicating Across Contexts.
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Fall 2024:
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As sessional faculty, I taught five courses for Seneca Polytechnic's School of English & Liberal Studies (daytime): EAC594 - Business Communication for the Digital Workplace (3 online classes, 1 in-person) and TEC400 - Technical Communications (online asynchronous).
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As sessional/partial-load faculty, I taught five courses for George Brown College's Continuing Education unit and their Department of English & Communication: COMM 2017 - Communicating Across Contexts, online and the same course, different code (COMM 2000; one online and 1 in-person at St. James Campus); and COMM 9294 - Copyediting (online).
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Summer 2024:
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As a partial-load faculty, I taught three courses for George Brown College's Continuing Education unit: COMM 2017 - Communicating Across Contexts, COMM 9093 - Technical Writing and Analysis, and COMM 9294 - Copyediting (all online).
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As partial-load faculty, I taught four courses for Seneca Polytechnic's School of English & Liberal Studies (daytime): EAC594 - Business Communication for the Digital Workplace (3 classes) and TEC400 - Technical Communications.
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Winter 2024:
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As a partial-load faculty, I taught a credit course twice simultaneously. Once for George Brown College's Continuing Education unit: COMM 2017 - Communicating Across Contexts online and the same course, different code (COMM 2000) for the daytime school in person at the Casa Loma Campus.
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Taught EAC594 - Business Communication for the Digital Workplace again for Seneca Polytechnic daytime.
Fall 2023:
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As adjunct faculty, I taught this day course for Seneca Polytechnic for the first time: EAC594 - Business Communication for the Digital Workplace
Spring/Summer 2023:
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As adjunct faculty, I revised and taught LIBA 9294 - Copyediting and LIBA 9309 - Grammar for Editors and Writers each for the 1st time with George Brown College. I taught Grammar for one term only but I took over Copyediting permanently. Also, I taught COMM 9158 - Technical Writing: Advanced Concepts for the 9th time.
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Corporate Communications, Training, & Coaching:
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Fall 2025:
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Toronto Hydro, as Guest Instructor via Humber College CPL
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Technical Writing for Engineers
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May 29, 2024:
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Editors Canada (Toronto Branch), as Guest Speaker
February 28, 2024:
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Humber College, Human Resources, as Guest Facilitator
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Communicating With Impact
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Spring/Summer 2023:
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Canadian Blood Services via Seneca College Corporate Training
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Ontario Nurses Association via George Brown College Continuing Education.
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Kenaidan Contracting Ltd. via Seneca College Corporate Training.
CURRENT COLLEGE TEACHING
(Courses taught: 121 + Currently teaching: 5)
Business Communication for the Digital Workplace
Summer 2025
Teaching EAC594 for the 14th time (in-person at Newnham Campus). I first taught this in Fall 2023. This is a SELS daytime credit course in all two- and three-year Business programs.
From One Species to Another: Exploring Evolution
Summer 2025
Teaching NAT290 for the 1st and 2nd time (both online). This is a SELS daytime elective credit course in Science programs.
Technical Communications
Summer 2025
Teaching TEC400 for the 3rd time. Last Fall's course was taught online asynchronously for the School of English & Liberal Studies (SELS). This is a compulsory credit course in Aviation, Information and Communication Technology, and Science and Engineering Technology programs.
RECENT CORPORATE ASSIGNMENTS
Technical Writing & Documentation Workshop
October 2024
Policy Research & Analysis + RFP & Proposal Consulting
March - May 2023 + February - September 2024
Microcredential Course Development
(10 courses)
August 2024 - March 2025
Documentation Training
March 2023
Documentation Training
March - April 2023
Writing & Editing Workshop
November 2023
PAST TEACHING
Technical Writing
Last class: Summer 2020
Taught EAC390 17 times since 2014.
Writing Web Content
Last class: Winter 2019
Taught LIBA 9358 4 times.
Technical Writing for
Product Documentation
Last class: Winter 2022
Taught COMM 9134 4 times.
I was hired to update the curriculum
in Fall 2020.
Technical Writing
Strategies*
Winter 2024
Taught PRC625 for the 26th consecutive (and final) time since Spring 2014. This course is sometimes given as a COIL partnership with Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA.
CONTINUING RESEARCH
My primary research interest for the past decade and the years come regards the pioneering American physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Robert Jemision Van de Graaff. He invented an early particle accelerator that, together with his lab & business partner Dr. John G. Trump, was used to not only split atoms but to treat cancer (among many other practical uses). Their company - High Voltage Engineering Corporation - was a pioneer as well and was the basis of my major research paper for my graduate studies (now complete).
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edwardfenner.wixsite.com/academic
My primary research sites are at right. Below are sites where I have recently given papers or seminars on this research.
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A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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The National Academies, STGlobal Conference, Washington, DC, USA.
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Cornell University, Northeast STS Graduate Student Conference, Ithica, NY, USA.
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2014 Congress - Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science: Brock University, ON, Canada.
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York University, STS Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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American Institute of Physics (AIP), Center for History of Physics, Emilio Segrè Visual Archives , College Park, MD, USA.
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American Institute of Physics (AIP), Center for History of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD, USA.
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A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Estate of Robert J. Van de Graaff. Homes of his two sons: John, near Boston, MA and Bill, near Chicago, IL, USA.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute Archives & Special Collections Archives Collections, Cambridge, MA, USA
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MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Museum of Science, Boston, MA, USA.
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National Museum of American History Library, Washington, DC, USA.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC, USA.
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York University, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada.