By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Terrific and Dismal View of What Influences CS Faculty to Adopt Teaching Practices
Mark Guzdial, Computing Education Blog, 2015/09/30
According to the study summarized here (but paywalled, so we can't evaluate it for ourselves), the major variable determining whether computer science teachers use a new pedagogical too is "whether students liked it". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed
Mark Suster, 2015/09/29
I can't even print the title of this item without a language warning, so skip past this one if you dislike obscenity (I'll never understand why a certain type of writer thinks it's ok to offend a large segment of the world's readership). More...
By Phil Hill. Richard Vedder wrote a particularly uninformed article in Forbes on Friday about the Education Department (ED) not including Hillsdale College in the new College Scorecard. Freed from the burden of facts or research, Vedder let loose the dogs of conspiracy. More...
Von Anna Katharina Bernzen. "Vertrauen in Medien", mit der Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin Kristina Juraite an der Universität Mannheim. Mehr...Von Christoph Möllers. In der Ambivalenz zwischen Vernunft und Politik – warum der öffentliche Intellektualismus in der Klemme steckt. Mehr...Von Andreas Hackethal. Ein Professor, neun Fragen: Denn Finanzen sind nicht nur Glück, sondern auch eine Wissenschaft. Beat the Prof. Mehr...Von Armin Nassehi. Der Debatte um den Professor als öffentlichen Intellektuellen fehlen inhaltliche Argumente.
Von Kristin Haug. Gestapelt, gestopft, das Wohnheim droht zu platzen: 400 Studenten haben kreative Plakate zur Wohnungsnot gestaltet. Hier sehen Sie die besten Arbeiten. Mehr...
By . A new report has identified “educational intelligence” as a way to take a holistic view of student retention and student success based on efforts to leverage data to recruit, enroll, retain, graduate, and employ students. More...
By Paige Francis. As a proud recipient of an arts and sciences undergraduate degree, I fondly look back on the cattle call that was course selection for my first semester of college. It was common knowledge that you wanted to knock out as many core classes as possible right out of the gate. More...
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