By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Just How Good Is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
William Giraldi, New Republic, 2015/07/16
I read To Kill a Mockingbird many years ago, when I was still young, and no number of reviews for or against will alter my own appreciation of the work (I've never seen the movie, but that's OK). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. If You Build It Will They Come An Evaluation of Whiteboard a Networked Academic Profiles Project
Stian Håklev, Frances Garrett, Matt Price, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2015/07/16
What I like about this report is that it described what really happened rather than whitewashing a project that essentially never really succeeded. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yikes! Turns Out Even Teachers Think Girls Are Bad At Math
Katherine Speller, MTV, 2015/07/16
When I was in grade 10 I took one of my drafting assignments, erased the grade, put someone else's name on it, and handed it in again. No, this was not in an effort to cheat (I also gave the teacher a sealed envelop describing the plan so this would be clear). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Houston, I think We have a (Disengagement) Problem
Kelly Christopherson, Educational Discourse, 2015/07/15
You need engagement in education only when you're trying to get people to do things they don't want to do. Our insistence on this has bred the creativity out of them. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stop Blaming ‘The System’
Dan Haesler, 2015/07/14
This is one of those posts where I'm half in agreement and half in disagreement. The essence of Dan Haesler's comment is that we should stop blaming what we can't change and start working on what we can change. More...
By Brendan O’Malley. School education should be used as a recruiting ground for foreign students to secure higher education enrolments, according to a Victoria government paper published last Tuesday. Read more...
By David Richard Walwyn. The rapid expansion of government funding for science in South Africa is perhaps surprising given the present climate of spending cutbacks amid urgent social priorities. Funding for public science in South Africa has increased by 71% in five years. It will reach R7.6 billion in 2015-16. Read more...
By Martin Ince. The World Conference of Science Journalists sounds like the sort of event that should generate many terrific news stories. But the ninth WCSJ, held in Seoul this June, generated just one. It was about one of the world’s top scientists, and about a senior academic at a leading British university. It contains a range of lessons that anyone involved in university life needs to learn. Read more...
By Rachael Jolley. Academic freedom needs to be defended from government, commercial and religious pressure. A simple enough statement. Surely stating the bleedin’ obvious? Does it really need to be said, and aren’t those battles already won? Well, it turns out that yes, it does, and no, they aren’t. Read more...
Par Paul Santelmann. Les chiffres du chômage peuvent donner l’impression d’une économie figée qui attendrait une croissance qui tomberait du ciel. Une étude de l’INSEE (Insee Première n° 1551 – mai 2015) vient éclairer de façon très pertinente la dynamique du tissu productif local marqué par les créations, cessations, transferts, reprises et cessions d’établissements. Voir l'article...
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