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13 février 2018

Getting Started on a Course Using Radical Pedagogy: #MLA18 Pres Plenary Follow Up

By Cathy Davidson. These inventory/sampling/Total Participation methods and tactics immediately change the classroom from a place where equality and total participation are rewarded and nourished and "educated" (we learn how to speak, how to have a voice, how to collaborate across differences); in the conventional classroom, inequality is structured. More...

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12 février 2018

What I Wish I Knew When I Started Doing Active Learning

By Cathy Davidson. For well over a decade, I've been studying the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory, and studies of pedagogy as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and methods for meaningful, engaged classrooms. I'm constantly learning, always trying new things. Here are things I wish I knew when I started down this exciting, productive, rewarding, and, ultimately, better path for higher education. More...

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12 février 2018

Black Listed Syllabus

By Cathy Davidson. This course examines the inter-relationship between the Cold War, the early Civil Rights movement, and the writing and censorship of African American writers from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, with an emphasis on the McCarthy Era. By looking at a range of literary and theoretical texts, we will work to understand the relationship between a range of legal, political, and social conditions and the forms of Black protest and expression at that time. More...

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12 février 2018

Black Listed: What We Will Do on Day #1

By Cathy Davidson. "Black Listed: African American Writers and the Cold War Politics of Integration, Surveillance, Censorship, and Publication" English 80300, IDS 81630 S 2018. More...

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12 février 2018

The (Open) Online Tools We Use--and Why You Should Too!

By Cathy Davidson. What's the point of using online tools if your goal is a student-led, engaged learning course? Tech for the sake of tech is ludicrous, expensive, and exploitative. For me, the only reason to use a digital tool is to do something that would be impossible or difficult without it. In our course, we use digital tools to facilitate interactions outside of the classroom that are student-to-student rather than one-way communication through the prof. Another purpose is to make as much of our knowledge a public contribution as possible. More...

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12 février 2018

Cambridge University considering break with 200 years of tradition by adopting US-style degree system

Cambridge University could break with 200 years of tradition by adopting a US-style degree system in a bid to tackle relentless grade inflation, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. More...

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12 février 2018

New university plagiarism software to be launched in crackdown on 'contract' cheating

Universities are set to clamp down on essay cheats with the launch of new plagiarism software which will record and monitor a student’s writing style. More...

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12 février 2018

SNP accused of anti-English bias over Brexit pledge to give EU students free tuition

SNP ministers have been accused of discriminating against the English by announcing that EU students will continue getting free university tuition in Scotland for four academic years after Brexit. More...

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12 février 2018

University of Cambridge admits 'significant' problem with sexual misconduct

The University of Cambridge has admitted that it has a "significant problem" with sexual misconduct after receiving almost 200 complaints in a matter of months. More...

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12 février 2018

IBM Mindspan Solutions Introduces Next Generation e-Learning Platform

IBM Mindspan Solutions Introduces Next Generation e-Learning Platform
IBM jumps into the e-learning game in a big way (bigger than LearningSpace, anyways) with the launch of a suite of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) based e-learning applications. More...

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