By Matthew Reisz. Are you an idealist or a pragmatist? In his latest book, Self and Soul, Edmundson aims to provide fresh insights into how we might choose to live our lives. More...
20 septembre 2015
19 septembre 2015
Party Platform Analysis: The Conservatives
By . Back again for some more election platform analysis. This week: the Conservatives. But first, a caveat. Part of the problem with trying to analyze party platforms in a 326-day election is that one’s rhythm gets all thrown off. In a five-week campaign, all of the announceables are pretty much there in the first 21 days or so, so you more or less know when a party’s done announcing things. In this election, we’re weeks into the campaign and we can’t be completely sure if the parties are done announcing things, unless, like the Greens, they actually publish the entire manifesto at once (an idea which, judging by their behaviour, the other parties find ridiculously passé). More...
19 septembre 2015
Community of Inquiry: Teaching Presence
By Debra Beck - EvoLLLution. The Community of Inquiry’s conceptualization of teaching presence offers both clarity about the specific challenges of instruction in an online environment and a framework for aligning practice with that setting. More...
19 septembre 2015
The Five A’s of Engaging Non-Traditional Students
By Todd McCullough - EvoLLLution. Today most colleges and universities have non-traditional students as part of their enrollment. If maximizing an institution’s engagement with this group were as simple as offering a few new resources, altering delivery styles, or acknowledging the existence of said population, then the discussion about how best to serve this demographic would be a short one. More...
19 septembre 2015
Do Businesspeople Make Good University Presidents?
By Vauhini Vara. Last week, the Board of Regents for Iowa’s higher-education system announced the hiring of J. Bruce Harreld, a business consultant who lives near Vail, as the new president of the University of Iowa. During its search, the board, an appointed body, had interviewed notable candidates from the field of higher education, like the president of Oberlin and the provosts of Tulane and Ohio State, but in the end, they landed on Harreld, who isn’t well known in academic circles—or anywhere else, really. More...
19 septembre 2015
It’s true. It matters when professors know their students' names
By . One involves a tenured education professor who was fired from Louisiana State University ostensibly for using profanity in class with her students. The other is the emergence of “learning analytics,” the use of software to flag students who are not doing well in a class. More...
19 septembre 2015
If poor people don’t vote, will their children be poor as well?
By . None of us has any control over the family we are born into. Yet the accident of birth determines a large share of each of our future earnings. Alarmingly, the more somebody’s own earnings depend upon what their parents earned, the more inequality persists. If this dependence – known as intergenerational earnings persistence – is high, a society is characterised by a dynastic structure where the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. More...
19 septembre 2015
Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results
By . By the time they are teenagers, more than two-thirds of young people are not doing enough physical activity. Teenagers spend an average of eight hours every day sitting, with 11 to 15-year-olds watching nearly three hours of television. Most of us are well aware that such behaviour risks damaging their physical health, but there’s an additional problem. More...
19 septembre 2015
Why access to computers won’t automatically boost children’s grades
By . Filling classrooms to the brim with computers and tablets won’t necessarily help children get better grades. That’s the finding of a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). More...
19 septembre 2015
Fewer top university offers go to black and Asian students, but UCAS research doesn’t explain why
By . A brief analysis published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) appears to explain the stark differences in offer rates for different ethnic groups that apply to highly selective universities. UCAS says these differences in offer rates – which are up to 15 percentage points lower on average for ethnic minority applicants than for white applicants – can be attributed almost entirely to differences in applicants’ predicted A-level grades and the popularity of their chosen degree course and institution. More...
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