Can fostering goodwill on campuses make a difference? Maria Shine Stewart reflects on the topic. More...
A Bird on a Reed
In a difficult environment for higher education and the nation, Mort Maimon discovers resilience in adversity in a somewhat surprising place. More...
Is the College Scorecard Misleading Students?
By failing to account for where graduates live, its earnings information is flawed, argues Doug Williams. More...
The Third Education Revolution
Techno-News Blog. The world of work is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Information Age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident. More...
How my university is disrupting higher education
Techno-News Blog. Disruption in higher education needs to happen everywhere, from admissions processes to business practices to the way we teach and assess. If higher education is a ship, it has struck an iceberg. It’s taking on water rapidly, and while the situation is urgent, many people on board simply refuse to acknowledge what’s happening. The lifeboats in this metaphor? Disruption. More...
What Motivates Good Teaching?
Techno-News Blog. As it turns out, certain factors predict professors’ intrinsic and “identified” motivation for teaching (the latter form meaning doing something because it’s seen as important), in support of the authors’ conceptual model. And those kinds of “autonomous” motivations in turn predict greater use of proven, effective teaching methods — namely instructional clarity and higher-order, reflective and integrative, and collaborative learning. More...
Roving robot lets UCI student attend classes virtually while on bed rest
Techno-News Blog. The robot is self-balancing, with six- to eight-hour battery life. It sells for about $3,000. Members of UCI’s class of 2016 used their senior class gift to buy four telepresence robots for the university. Law and political science professor Rick Hasen described the experience with the Double 2 as unusual, but said it helped instill camaraderie in his class. More...
Accès à l’université : 425 enseignants dénoncent une « sélection absurde et hypocrite »
Dans une tribune, 425 profs d'université s'opposent à Parcoursup et dénoncent une "sélection absurde". Ils critiquent aussi "l'inexorable dégradation" du supérieur. Plus...
Les apprentis, plus optimistes que les étudiants et les jeunes travailleurs
Que ce soit pour trouver un travail qui leur plaira ou dans lequel ils pourront évoluer et seront bien rémunérés, près de neuf apprentis sur dix se disent optimistes quant à leur avenir professionnel. Plus...
Le luxe et l’aéronautique font rêver les étudiants des grandes écoles
Pour la troisième année consécutive, LVMH et Airbus figurent parmi les entreprises préférées des étudiants en école de commerce et en école d'ingénieurs. Plus...