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14 septembre 2014

Reflections on community in #rhizo14 – more questions than answers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reflections on community in #rhizo14 – more questions than answers
Frances Bell, Francesbell's Blog, 2014/09/09
A lot of people continue to value community in courses without, I think, comprehending what community is. It's really hard to understand the nature of a community from within. "How can we know about all of the flowers that bloomed? And some of the ones that failed to thrive or died?" Most people, I think, participate in community from their own frame of reference. More...

14 septembre 2014

The Trouble with Pinker's Argument about 'The Trouble With Harvard'

http://www.hastac.org/files/imagecache/homepage_50/pictures/picture-79-873560aec16bee4b69793f2fa0fbd715.jpgBy Cathy Davidson. According to Steven Pinker in his recent New Republic article about"The Trouble with Harvard," the most read article in the history of that magazine is a previous article also mostly about the trouble with Harvard, William Deresiewicz’s “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.”    Like all the things we most covet and scorn, Harvard is the object of our national fascination, even obsession. More...

14 septembre 2014

Pearson’s Efficacy Listening Tour

By Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill. Back around New Year, Michael wrote a post examining Pearson’s efficacy initiative and calling on the company to engage in active discussions with various communities within higher education about defining “efficacy” with educators rather than for educators. It turns out that post got a fair bit of attention within the company. More...

14 septembre 2014

Postgraduates – Public good or job qualification?

By David Jobbins. An international study of postgraduate education has produced evidence of considerable challenges over a range of countries, from emerging economies to the most developed in North America and Europe. Read more...
14 septembre 2014

Good Coaches Are Good Teachers

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/CRW.jpgBy Lee Skallerup Bessette. My son has started doing karate. He’s afflicted with my degree of hand-eye coordination, especially when it comes to mimicking something someone is doing, which is to say, neither of us are very good at it. The sensei is facing the group and tells the students to lift their right arms. My son, rather than lifting his right arm, will instead lift his left arm, perfectly mirroring the sensei. Read more...
14 septembre 2014

My Dissertation Sweater

By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. Two years ago, I attended a summer school at Heidelberg University on doing scholarship using material objects as sources. At the end of our one-week institute, one of the professors asked all the graduate students in the room to answer this question: “If your dissertation were an object, what would it be?” More...

14 septembre 2014

Journal Writing for Graduate Students

By Justin Dunnavant. As archaeologists, it is customary for us to keep research journals while conducting fieldwork. Earlier this year I found myself excavating in a remote part of Ethiopia, camped out on the side of a mountain. Every night I would sit down for 15 to 30 minutes and write about the day’s work, weather, new foods, and other day-to-day experiences. More...

13 septembre 2014

Project Seeks to Ease Path to 4-Year Degree for Nontraditional Students

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The American Council on Education announced on Wednesday a project intended to make it easier for nontraditional students to earn four-year college degrees. Financed by a $1.86-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the new program will create roughly 100 free or inexpensive general-education courses that will earn students as much as two years’ transfer credit at some 40 participating colleges. More...

12 septembre 2014

Want an education in life? Then drop out of university

The Guardian homeBy . Academia doesn’t make the grade as a training ground for today’s world. A guest lounges against the reception desk, quizzing me: “How did you get here? Are you paid? Do you have a degree in hospitality?” I have to let her down gently. At 19, without a degree, I am paid well to run a popular hostel. Last year, I made the best decision of my life: I dropped out of university. Read more...
12 septembre 2014

Always run. Never walk

Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Eric Termuende, Kirsten Poon and Emerson Csorba. When entering university, first-year students are taught to work for the best possible grade-point-average and take classes seriously – often in preparation for jobs as doctors, lawyers, accountants and so on. In some ways, this is good advice; earning a high average and excelling in studies can be valuable in the long term. Read more...
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