30 novembre 2018
29 novembre 2018
Possible Dissertation Topic?
By Matt Reed. The recent IHE article about online classes rang true. In the two-year sector, for instance, it showed that online enrollments are up, even as overall enrollments in the sector are down. That has been true locally for years. More...
29 novembre 2018
Sneaking Through Open House
By Matt Reed. The trick to being a good secret shopper is that you have to blend in. In this case, I wasn’t trying to hide from the faculty and staff, who recognized me easily. I was trying to blend in with parents, so I could get a sense of the conversations among them. That meant trying to pass as a middle-aged suburban dad. More...
29 novembre 2018
Be Civil, Not Angry
By Eboo Patel. Democracy benefits from approaches characterized by inquiry, relationships, persuasion and reason – and other reasons why civility is better than anger. More...
28 novembre 2018
A Very Controversial Idea
By Colleen Flaherty. Academic freedom is meant to protect scholars with controversial ideas. But a group of philosophers says academic freedom isn’t protection enough in an era of campus speech debates, internet trolls and threats against professors -- and that academics now need a place to publish their most sensitive ideas pseudonymously. More...
27 novembre 2018
Registration? For What?
Registration? For What?
Some mainstream people are now arguing against newspaper website registration policies, people who even get mentioned in Poynter's E-Media Tidbits when they make the case. More...
27 novembre 2018
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Reading the review was probably enough for me, as it depicts what seems to be a pro-intellectualist rail against what it is today's intellectuals (including myself, if I may be so bold) are actually saying. More...
27 novembre 2018
Higher education can take a lead in fighting inequity
By Graeme Atherton. As every week appears to bring greater political uncertainty – from the imminent departure of the German chancellor to the new populist president in Brazil to the United Kingdom spiralling further into the vortex of Brexit – it becomes ever more important for higher education to keep defining its place in this world. More...27 novembre 2018
Navigating the world’s transition to a gig economy
By Alejandro Caballero. Gigs, not jobs. That’s what tomorrow’s labour market will increasingly become, the newly-published World Development Report (WDR) 2019 tells us. The report’s message to stakeholders in developing countries, including the private sector, is clear: invest more in human capital to remain competitive in a global economy where, in addition to some kinds of jobs being eliminated, others created and others altered, the very nature of work is changing. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)