By Colleen Flaherty. “How can faculty work together to create a more coherent and intentional curriculum whose goals, pathways and outcomes are clear to students and other constituencies with a stake in the future of higher education?” With that question, the Teagle Foundation began its Curricular Coherence initiative in 2014. More...
For higher ed institutions considering restructuring their general education curriculum, administrators suggest they involve the faculty in the process from the start. More...
While a college’s general education curriculum touches every student, officials may go many years without touching those requirements in any significant way. More...
Exactly 10 years ago this past August, I was getting ready to move to Washington to start my master's in medieval history at Catholic University, with a larger goal of earning a Ph.D. I had just graduated from the College of Holy Cross three months before and was excited to continue on with my education. More...
Techno-News Blog. The makerspace isn’t just a fixed space where kids come and go to complete busywork. It’s an extension of a well-established approach to educating students that has applications and deep implications across disciplines. As makerspaces start to pop up in schools across the country, some educators, particularly those teaching non-STEM subjects, may be wondering what exactly they’re supposed to do with them. More...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Je suis encore plus sceptique sur les résultats du second appel à projets PIA3 « Nouveaux cursus à l’université » (Frédérique Vidal. Communiqué du 9 juillet 2018). Plus...
In the US, I was coerced into teaching a prepackaged course that stifled creativity. I fear UK universities are not far behind. More...
For MFAs or MAAEs in creative writing, visual arts, photography, or stage writing, the option of low-residency has become increasingly popular as many non-traditional graduate students juggle other responsibilities. More...
Techno-News Blog. In a 2017 interview with the University Professional and Continuing Education Association, Dean Hunt Lambert, who leads Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, emphasized that the 60-year curriculum recognizes that people begin their learning careers in earnest in their teens, continue learning throughout their work years, and even continue their educations during their retirements. More...
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. L’Icam, école d’ingénieurs multi-campus en France, sur tous les fronts. Après avoir inauguré son implantation en République du Congo, à Pointe-Noire, début janvier elle lance un tout nouveau parcours d’études, dit « parcours ouvert ». Plus...
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