After graduation, students often don't apply this intellectual asset to their careers, even though satisfying job choices are tightly correlated with it, writes Mike O'Connor. More...
18 mai 2019
18 mai 2019
The Untapped Potential of Making and Makerspaces
Charles M. Schweik describes four ways higher education could make much more of such educational opportunities. More...
18 mai 2019
This Long Conversation
Scott McLemee reviews Jenifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. More...
18 mai 2019
Leveling the Playing Field With Internet Connectivity Plus…
Not so long ago all learning was delivered offline. Nowadays it is a given that students will have an internet connection and will be able to access their content at all times. Learning Management Systems were designed as SaaS to always be online or at least linked to a central database. More...
18 mai 2019
Chegg CEO: ‘We need to make learning more available and adaptive’
America’s education system as a whole is far too complex and intersected with other socio-economic factors for there to be easy fixes to this problem, Dan Rosensweig, CEO and president of Chegg, an educational resource company that started out offering online textbook rentals, said in an interview on Yahoo Finance’s On the Move. More...
18 mai 2019
Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books
As the number of undergraduates steadily declines in seeming direct proportion to rising costs, debt and the many other obstacles faced by college students, graduate enrollment is quietly on the upswing. It’s being driven by the better job prospects and higher salaries people think it will bring them — and by a conscious strategy among universities like this one to add graduate programs that produce much-needed revenue. More...
18 mai 2019
Scenes From Graduation Week
By Matt Reed. Graduation week is the most affirming, and most tiring, week of the year. A few scenes from this year’s version, all true:
At the morning ceremony, as one student crossed the stage to get her degree, a voice boomed from the stands: “That’s my Mom!” The whole place muttered “awww…” in unison. Moments like those get me every time. More...
18 mai 2019
When Inclusion Just Makes Life Easier
By Matt Reed. I have to hand it to Twitter; it has changed my mind on a few issues in the last month or so. And no, I’m not referring to politics, at least in the usual sense of the word. I’m referring to some ways in which making a conscious choice to be more inclusive benefits not only the newly-included, but even the ones doing the including. More...
18 mai 2019
Choosing Humanity Over Compliance
By John Warner. One semester, junior year of college, I had only three finals, all scheduled in the same day early cycle. If that was the case, we were allowed to reschedule one to a different date at the professor’s convenience. I approached all three professors, and each gave me a time on the last day of finals, a full four days after I would’ve been done otherwise. More...
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