Students can lead the fight against hate – IS survivor
By Arther Mirza. Students and the youth are the greatest weapon in the fight against terror and hate, was the message from a survivor who gave a powerful personal testament to the horror of genocide and of how hope can emerge from the darkest of places, at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, last week. Read more...
Listening to students on how to improve universities
By Emily Johnson. Education is at the centre of many debates these days. Education experts conduct surveys and do research based on current knowledge and data. Statistics are all well and good, but wouldn't it be better to hear what students have to say instead of conducting dry fact-finding exercises. Read more...
The Values of Fandom: Collaboration
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Values of Fandom: Collaboration
Ted Gill, Fandom, 2016/11/29
If you're wondering whatever happened to Wikia, wonder no more - it was renamed Fandom and has taken on a much more entertainment related theme. This I guess is where the money is. But now and then the site remembers its roots, as with this article on how staff use the wiki to collaborate. More...
Watson, Please Replace Me!
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Watson, Please Replace Me!
Dan Butin, 2016/11/22
Perhaps we're looking at the idea of computers replacing teachers in the wrong light, says Dan Butin. "Much of my job is repetitive," he writes. More...
The choreography of lectures
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The choreography of lectures
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2016/11/25
Even as you read this, I will be giving a lecture. If lectures are so awful, why do I do it? Because they're not so awful. More...
'Post-Truth' Is Just A Rip-Off Of 'Truthiness'
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'Post-Truth' Is Just A Rip-Off Of 'Truthiness'
Stephen Colbert, YouTube, 2016/11/24
It has to be said. And who better to say it than Stephen Colbert.More...
Area colleges ready to handle attacks
In education, greater choice doesn’t always mean better outcomes
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Betsy DeVos, a Republican billionaire from Michigan, to be secretary of education last week. The choice of someone well known for her views on K-12 education sent college officials scrambling just before the long Thanksgiving weekend to find anything DeVos might have said about higher education. More...
A plea for reading in college
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. I’ve always been a reader. I’m the kid who leafed randomly through the World Book Encyclopedia finding out things about Bolivia, carpenter ants and zygotes just because. More...