Canalblog
Suivre ce blog Administration + Créer mon blog
Formation Continue du Supérieur
28 février 2016

States’ Rights and Means Testing? Um, no thanks…

By Matt Reed. New America issued a report last week suggesting a complete overhaul of the system we have for financing higher education in America. (You can find the report here, and IHE’s initial coverage here.) It’s an attempt to build an entirely new system for ensuring access to college across income levels, and it largely relies on ditching the voucher model of grants and loans -- in which money flows through students to institutions -- and replacing it with a model of institutional support, run through states. More...

28 février 2016

Separating Boilerplate From Plagiarism

By Matt Reed. What separates boilerplate from plagiarism?
When I read about President Starcevich, at Kirkwood Community College, having plagiarized in a speech, I had to wonder where that line goes. More...

28 février 2016

After Dual Enrollment

By Matt Reed. Dual Enrollment and Early College High School programs are gaining ground in the Northeast, having already established themselves as popular choices in much of the Midwest and South. More...

28 février 2016

Amazon OER?

By Matt Reed. So Amazon is working on a site that will curate Open Educational Resources. The initial market is K-12, though I have a hard time imagining higher ed will be far away. They’re calling it Amazon Inspire, and it’s supposed to launch in a few months. More...

28 février 2016

When Student Preferences Don’t Align

By Matt Reed. “Students want degrees that lead to jobs.”
Well, sometimes. The gap between that sentiment and actual student behavior explains part of why the model of higher education as a sort of human resources office for the economy always falls short. More...

28 février 2016

Shameless Parental Brag

By Matt Reed. The Girl: “I wanted to be the first woman president, but if Hillary wins, that’s okay.  I’ll be the third or fourth.”
--
I have nothing to add to that.  America, you’ve been warned. More...

28 février 2016

Enhanced Voice Typing for Google Docs

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/technology_and_learning_blog_header.jpg?itok=aQthgJ91By Joshua Kim. In trying out this new enhanced Google Docs Voice typing feature, I'm realizing that for me writing is typing. Thinking is typing. Read more...
28 février 2016

3 Ways Higher Ed Can Avoid the Fate of Polaroid

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/technology_and_learning_blog_header.jpg?itok=aQthgJ91By Joshua Kim. I’m in the middle of reading Adam Grant’s new book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - a book that is too good to recommend only once. Read more...
28 février 2016

Higher Education and ‘The Industries of the Future’

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/technology_and_learning_blog_header.jpg?itok=aQthgJ91By Joshua Kim. The revolution in postsecondary education will not occur in today’s rich but old countries.  This revolution will unfold throughout the emerging world - in countries that are today both young and relatively poor. Read more...
28 février 2016

EdTech and 'All The Birds in the Sky'

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/technology_and_learning_blog_header.jpg?itok=aQthgJ91By Joshua Kim. It was not until I read Charlie Jane Anders wonderful science fiction / fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky that I understood the internal tension in our edtech profession. Read more...
Newsletter
49 abonnés
Visiteurs
Depuis la création 2 784 310
Formation Continue du Supérieur
Archives