New Data Suggests the High Costs of Education is Hurting Families
Jonathan Champagne, Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, June 9, 2014
According to this survey from the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, "The high cost of tuition and housing is not only straining students’ budgets, but it is also requiring major sacrifices on the part of families." This is consistent with a steady stream of reports on the impact of the cost of education. More...
German ‘NSA-proof’ private server raises $1mn crowdfunding in 89 minutes
Russia Today, June 9, 2014
This reflects the increasing trend toward personal privacy as well as suggests the possibility of people hosting internet services in their own homes (something that is not practical with ADSL and earlier internet services, or wireless devices, but becomes feasible with cable and especially fibre-optic connections). More...
The Learning Curve: Education and Skills for Life
Paul Kielstra, Pearson, June 9, 2014
This is a fairly basic-level report on some trends in education and skills development, focused mostly on lifelong learning. The full 28-page PDF is available here. While nothing in the report is particularly controversial, the language and emphasis is clearly slanted toward a particular perspective. More...
Enclosing the public domain: The restriction of public domain books in a digital environment
Alex Clark, Brenda Chawner, First Monday, June 9, 2014
Picking up a longstanding discussion I've had with people about enclosure, here's a report from First Monday on how commercial publishers make you pay for resources even through they're free and in the public domain. More...
Emailed in Error, UVa Law School’s Student GPA Spreadsheet Spreads Fast
Lawrence Biemiller, The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog, June 7, 2014
This item is disturbing on a couple of levels. The first is the now-normal disclosure of student personal information and records. But even more disturbing is the information being collected and distributed to potential employers: grades, class rankings, political affiliation, work experience, recommenders, even information about where their girlfriends live. More...
Seeding is believing: McGill launches crowdfunding platform
Megan Elizabeth Martin, McGill Reporter, June 6, 2014
McGill University in Montreal has launched a crowdfunding platform to encourage donations. "McGill donors can now choose specific projects to support – projects that really speak to them – and watch as their support helps change our landscape of learning," said Ayesha Mayan, Director of McGill’s Annual Fund. More...
Scientists, Calculate Your Chances of Success in Academe
Andy Thomason, The Chronicle: The Ticker, June 6, 2014
I can only imagine this program would predict my complete and utter failure as a researcher: "The probability of becoming a principal investigator, according to the researchers behind the article, hinges mostly on three variables: the number of articles, the “impact factor” of the journals in which the articles were published, and the number of papers receiving more citations than the expected number for that journal." The report, of course, was published in a journal. More...
What is Schema.org?
Phil Barker, Lorna M. Campbell, CETIS, June 6, 2014
Schema.org has been around for a while. But if you're not familiar with it, and need to know about web page indexing on a technical level, this is an important read. More...
MOOCs Won’t Replace Business Schools — They’ll Diversify Them
Gayle Christensen, Brandon Alcorn, Ezekiel Emanuel, Harvard Business Review Blogs, June 6, 2014
This idea here is that MOOCs are effective advertsing vehicles that will help these schools attract the demographics they want, especially since they have a global reach. More...
College Credentials by Condé Nast
Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, June 4, 2014
Would you trust a college degree issued by Wired Magazine or Architectural Digest? Maybe not, but that's not stopping some colleges from teaming up with Condé Nast to offer degree programs, even Masters'. I can see it now - an MBA from the Vanity Fair déCollage. More...
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