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29 novembre 2017

Comment être plus efficace dans sa prise de parole en public ? Un bon conseil en format TED !

Sur le blog Educpros de Jean-Charles Cailliez. Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait penser, il n’est pas nécessaire d’être dans la préparation d’un TEDx pour lire ce livre. Cet ouvrage de Chris ANDERSON, directeur des conférences TED, est intéressant car il nous donne les bonnes recettes pour apprendre à parler en public et à captiver son auditoire dans un temps imparti qui n’excède jamais 20 minutes. L’exercice pourrait paraître futile, mais point du tout. Plus...

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26 novembre 2017

Let’s talk about sex in higher education

If there’s one thing clear from Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus (2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), it is that what you think you know about sex on campus is probably wrong. More...

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25 novembre 2017

Why I’m Pretty Sure the Isaacson da Vinci Book Is Behind the $450 Million Sale

By Joshua Kim. Readers of Walter Isaacson delightful new book Leonardo da Vinci were maybe less surprised than everyone else by the $450 million auction price for the Salvator Mundi. More...

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25 novembre 2017

'The Sum of Small Things', Inconspicuous Consumption, and the Small College Town

By Joshua Kim. For a few years now I’ve been trying to make sense of life in a small college town. The Sum of Small Things may provide some important clues to piecing together that particular puzzle. More...

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25 novembre 2017

'Insight,' Self-Awareness, and the Academic

By Joshua Kim. What would Homo Academicus make of Tasha Eurich’s insightful new book Insight? Ideally, Insight should have us all deeply worried. Realistically, maybe not so much. More...

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24 novembre 2017

Growing Less Equal

By Rick Seltzer. Although university leaders speak frequently about college as a driver of social mobility, opining on the need to expand access to poor and underserved populations, inequality permeates American higher education. More...

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23 novembre 2017

Study: High Textbook Prices Lead to Poor Grades

By Lindsay McKenzie. A survey by e-textbook provider VitalSource has found that 50 percent of students who delayed buying textbooks because of high prices saw their grades suffer as a result. More...

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23 novembre 2017

A university president discusses her new book on how colleges can prepare students for success

By Scott Jaschik. Colleges face scrutiny -- from would-be students, their parents and politicians -- over whether they are preparing students for careers. Gloria Cordes Larson has focused on these issues at Bentley University, a business-oriented institution that also takes pride in the general education students receive. Her new book, PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success (Jossey-Bass), is something of a guide for colleges -- including those institutions far less focused on business than is Bentley -- to how to respond to the demands in this area. More...

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23 novembre 2017

‘The Recovery Revolution’

Claire D. Clark’s The Recovery Revolution traces the history of therapies that help drug users recover from addiction, sometimes with contradictory and controversial practices, Scott McLemee writes. More...

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23 novembre 2017

We Demand…

In We Demand: The University and Student Protests, Roderick A. Ferguson's understanding of the campus activism of the 1960s and ’70s rests on a clear sense of the university as a crucial part of the social machine, writes Scott McLemee. More...

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