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17 novembre 2015

The Games Art Historians Play: Online Game-based Learning in Art History and Museum Contexts

By Prof. Hacker. I recently posted a query on the CAAH listserv (Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians) to research online game-based and gamified learning in art history and museums. Read more...

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17 novembre 2015

When the Technology Changes on You

By Maha Bali. When we use technology extensively in our teaching (or work in general, really), how do we handle unexpected changes to that technology? Here are some thoughts and workarounds. Read more...

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17 novembre 2015

Many Colleges Now See Centers for Teaching With Technology as Part of ‘Innovation Infrastructure’

By Jeffrey R. Young. In the past few years, many colleges have expanded the scale and scope of centers that support teaching and learning with technology, as part of an effort to build a new “innovation infrastructure” for instruction. More...

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17 novembre 2015

Public-University Group Expands ‘Personalized Learning’ Efforts

By Ellen Wexler. “Personalized learning” means different things to different people. It’s a buzzword, and it can be difficult to get past the hype. Depending on whom you ask, it can mean such things as data analytics, video games, or artificial-intelligence research. More...

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17 novembre 2015

What Google’s New Open-Source Software Means for Artificial-Intelligence Research

By Ellen Wexler. Google wants the artificial-intelligence software that drives the company’s Internet searches to become the standard platform for computer-science scholars in their own experiments. More...

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17 novembre 2015

How Racial Politics Hurt My Students

By Marilouise Michel. About 15 years ago, the English department at my institution, Murray State University, absorbed the philosophy department because it had too few majors to justify having its own administrative staff. It still has fewer philosophy majors than desired, which is quite likely true at other similar-sized institutions as well, and soon that shortage might lead to a reduction of philosophy faculty and a limiting of core philosophy courses. More...

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17 novembre 2015

Let's Treat the Philosophy Department Like the Football Team

By Paul Walker. About 15 years ago, the English department at my institution, Murray State University, absorbed the philosophy department because it had too few majors to justify having its own administrative staff. It still has fewer philosophy majors than desired, which is quite likely true at other similar-sized institutions as well, and soon that shortage might lead to a reduction of philosophy faculty and a limiting of core philosophy courses. More...

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17 novembre 2015

How the Crisis of the Humanities Is Like the Greek Economy

By Steven Conn. I know. Yet another piece on the "crisis of the humanities." Those of us who tend the gardens on that side of campus are all too familiar with the symptoms of this crisis: shrunken departments and an increased reliance on academic day laborers; witheringly bad job prospects for our Ph.D. students; tumbleweeds blowing through our empty classrooms. More...

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17 novembre 2015

Why Embattled Leaders Should Be Stepping Up, Not Stepping Down

By Thomas R. Rochon. Ithaca College has been among the institutions roiled this fall by student protest on issues of diversity and inclusion. As has been true elsewhere, the immediate impetus for these protests has been concerns about racism and bias stemming from incidents that occurred on campus this year. More...

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17 novembre 2015

Why Growth in International Enrollments Could Soon Be Slowing

By Karin Fischer. The most recent study on foreign-student trends was just released today, but the real question for American higher education is what the next report, one year from now, will show.
That’s because the latest report, while showing robust growth in overseas enrollments, relies on data from the past academic year, 2014-15. More...

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