By Aisha Gani. Professor Will Brooker will spend months at a time experiencing the star’s life at different points through his 40-year career – from Ziggy Stardust to Let’s Dance. More...
24 août 2015
24 août 2015
The surprising effects of study abroad
By . Since Kant, liberal scholars of international relations have hypothesized that greater cross-border contact can be a powerful force for good. The idea is that such contact encourages a sense of shared international community, breaking down artificial barriers separating people into different nations and inhibiting their natural human affinities for one another. This intuitively appealing hypothesis has inspired several famous student exchange programs, which among other potential positive effects are expected to quell nationalist fervors and ward off international conflict. Read more...24 août 2015
Faculty, university leaders spar over academic freedom at UBC
A key player in a public battle about academic freedom at the University of British Columbia says he'll remain chairman of the board of governors and that a critic should file a formal grievance. Read more...24 août 2015
ASU wants to be a new sort of University and they're getting there
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ASU wants to be a new sort of University and they're getting there
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/08/20
I will be visiting Arizona State University as this post appears in the newsletter and it will be interesting to see how my experiences match up with Clark's. More...
24 août 2015
10 reasons why Salman Khan is a more important educational theorist & practitioner than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 10 reasons why Salman Khan is a more important educational theorist & practitioner than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/08/19
It is easy to be dismissive of Salman Khan (and I am guilty of this at times) because his seminal innovation was to use YouTube videos of light text on dark backgrounds. More...
24 août 2015
And So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. And So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism...
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2015/08/18
Drawing on Seymour Papert's 1987 essay 'Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking,' Audrey Watters offers a defense of ed tech criticism. More...
24 août 2015
Kohlberg's moralising and its revival - character education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Kohlberg's moralising and its revival - character education
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/08/18
Donald Clark uses Lawrence Kohlberg's account of education "as the development of moral judgement and behaviour" as a frame to introduce this commentary on the recent revival of character education (and I would include my least favourite word, 'grit'). More...
24 août 2015
Give something back to your hosts
By Paul Bergen. Science is built on international partnerships. Researchers in industry and academia collaborate with colleagues across borders and across cultures, but they don’t always have to travel very far to collaborate internationally. Sometimes the journey is just across the hall. Read more...
24 août 2015
Making universities more relevant
By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Francis Ahia. The roles of universities as reported in the literature could be broadly classified as teaching, research, service and advising. The service role is further divided into outside-of-university service and inside-of-university service. Read more...
22 août 2015
Knowledge, engagement and higher education, a matter of social responsibility
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are active players in contributing to social change and the creation of another possible world. HEIs are active players as well in spreading current paradigms, perceptions of reality and beliefs. HEI’s educate the future generation of citizens that meanwhile will carry their professional activity they will at the same time deal with human problems. The shadow of pressing global issues could be seen in every single decision we made every day. See more...
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