By Stefanie Botelho. Conservation on campus is about saving money and electricity at a time of lagging state funding and soaring global demand for power. Worldwide energy use is slated to jump 56 percent by 2040, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Meanwhile, students and faculty are increasingly well-versed in energy use and are demanding sustainable solutions. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. More transfer students will now have the chance to obtain an associate degree—with-out extra administrative burden—thanks to a Lumina Foundation grant that National Student Clearinghouse received to provide an automated solution for exchanging reverse transfer student data. More...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. This semester, I’m doing all my classes in some form of peer-driven learning or another. On top of my usual peer-driven Writing II classes, I am also doing a peer-driven Introduction to World Literature course and an Interdisciplinary Honors course covering the Renaissance and Enlightenment. In both classes, we are working together to curate the content for the course, but we’re spending the first few weeks of the semester doing research to ensure that we are making informed choices. Read more...By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I’m using this app called TimeHop, which goes back in time and reminds me of the things I said and pictures I took and posted to social media. While I wasn’t on Twitter until 2010 (I know, seems longer), I was on Facebook (early 2006). We had just moved to another country, and it seemed like a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. Read more...
By Marshall Thomas. MOOCs are at an interesting phase in their evolution. With MOOC mania subsiding somewhat, the field is coalescing around aspirational goals to make MOOCs more engaging, interactive, personalized, and sustainable.
Some thought leaders are calling it MOOC 2.0. Just as MOOC 1.0 research stimulated a healthy debate about the market for free online courses, MOOC 2.0 is motivating a debate about best practices in teaching and learning at a massive scale. Studies on retention rates and the unique MOOC audience of lifelong learners reshaped our thinking, and now we have a bit more data to go on when it comes to bringing teaching back to the fore in higher ed (yes, ed stands for education). More...
By Steven Mintz. Mark Carnes’s "Minds on Fire: How Role Immersion Games Transform College” offers evidence that an immersive gamified pedagogy can significantly increase student engagement and motivation. More...
By Tracy Mitrano. There. I have distilled the analytic framework of my doctoral education. Just about anything from social to cultural historiography could theoretically be understood if broken down by those factors. Too simplistic? Of course, just as it is to parrot back blithely the four (Lessig) factors used to analyze the Internet (market, technology, social norms and the law). Read more...
By Oronte. In Form and Theory of Fiction we just read Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station, continuing our discussion this semester of “stories about nothing” that included Chekhov’s “Lady with the Dog,” Jean-Philippe Toussant’s novel Running Away, and Stanley Crawford’s novella Log of the SS The Mrs. Unguentine. Read more...
By Matt Reed. The Middle: A Response to Goldie Blumenstyk
By Joshua Kim. I’ve spent the past two days participating in the Inaugural Leading Academic Change Summit, an event co-hosted by the University System of Maryland’s Center for Academic Innovation (thank you MJ Bishop) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (thank you Anne Keehn). Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
