My Last Day as a Professor
Priya J. Shah, Office Hours: gender, feminism in everyday life, June 10, 2014
The praise for academia in the next post notwithstanding, there are things it could do so much better, at least in its North American incarnation, and that is in the employment of adjunct (or in Canada, sessional) instructors. I was in that world for a while. More...
Three Makes a Movement: Branson creates youth panel for student voice in ed tech
Phil Hill, e-Literate, June 10, 2014
While I am all in favour of student participation – including panels – at conferences, I really don’t think the more recent two events constitute the "start” of such a movement, as claimed by Phil Hill. A simple Google search on “student panel” (in quotes) yields 199,000 results. 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...
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...
Reclaiming Education
Jim Groom, Brian Lamb, EDUCAUSE Review, June 4, 2014
I guess everybody knows I'm a fully paid up subscriber to this vision, and I really appreciate Jim Groom and Brian Lamb's statement of it: "Starting now. A technology that allows for limitless reproduction of knowledge resources, instantaneous global sharing and cooperation, and all the powerful benefits of digital manipulation, recombination, and computation must be a 'bag of gold' for scholarship and for learning." Be sure to look at the very top of the article for the link to case studies - otherwise you'll miss half of what's there. More...
The basic understanding, or, fact-based theory
Dave Ferguson, Dave's Whiteboard, June 3, 2014
I like this post. Not because I agree with it, necessarily - I don't really think the answer to "do you understand?" is "let me demonstrate". But I think there's a sense to be made of the idea that knowing is about doing rather than some mental state. More...
L'université de Lorraine a constitué et mobilisé un réseau d'enseignants pour accompagner leurs pairs dans leur développement professionnel afin d'enclencher une dynamique de transformation pédagogique et d'appuyer la mise en œuvre des actions qui en découlent. Plus...
Massification of higher education has increased at a faster rate with the deregulation of commonwealth supported student places through the demand-driven system. The outcome is many more students from under-represented cohorts. But, unfortunately, attrition is higher among these new students, partly because of inadequate student financial assistance but also because universities are still scrambling to respond to these students’ needs. More...
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