Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The use of video in education is growing by leaps and bounds. Videos are used in classrooms to support student learning, they play a critical role in flipped learning, and they also figure prominently in teacher professional development. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why millennials are ditching university, and what it means for the workplace
Mandy Gilbert, Financial Post, 2015/08/25
OK, this is an opinion piece in the Financial Post, which is not exactly noted for well-researched opinion pieces. But the summary in Academica captures not just the article but the trend itself really well. More...
By . We in higher education have been on the defensive lately, amid persistent and legitimate concerns about the rising cost of college education, its purpose and its value. In response, we cite compelling data on the higher wages of college graduates compared to those without degrees, and we describe the intangible values of a liberal arts education that enhance an individual’s joy in life and ability to fulfill the demands of citizenship. More...
By Paul Davidson. Young people across Canada are packing up and heading off to university for the fall semester. Those of us a little older may feel a twinge of envy, as we remember our own time on leafy campuses in September. But, in fact, their experience will be quite unlike ours. More than ever before, these students will be learning by doing.
Today, more than 50 per cent of undergraduate university students across all fields of study will have a co-op, internship or service learning experience over the course of their studies. And that number is growing. More...
By Eric Andrew-Gee. When university courses resume this September, Canadian students may find themselves learning the meaning of two new letters: HB. 
By Catherine Vertesi. You may know about the four P’s of marketing, but do you know the six P’s for successful international programmes? In Workshop 15 at the EAIE Annual Conference in Glasgow, Building global perspectives: high-impact, short-term study programmes, we will introduce you to the six P’s and show how they can help your programme transform participating students, even in just a short stay abroad. More...
By Pusa Nastase. Students go to university to learn, but do universities still mainly exist to pass on knowledge? Priorities have shifted, on every level. In a time when competition is fierce, it seems as though reputations take precedence. Professors feel the pressure to ‘publish or perish’, institutions are concerned with ranking, and even students are after more than just a degree. More...
By Umran Inan. Generation of cutting edge knowledge is a key goal for academic institutions in this new era. This singular goal fuels a fierce competition to attract the talent that would accelerate and expand the capacity of a university in knowledge production. In this context of competition, countries such as Turkey have suffered for a long time from brain drain. More...
By EAIE. Meet an EAIE member who truly loves what she does. Pauliina Mikkonen, the new Vice-Chair of the EAIE Expert Community Network of European Summer Schools (NESS), shares her story with us. Read about her journey from trainee to programme manager and find out what aspect of her job she finds most rewarding. More...
Central Saint Martins and The Royal College of Art have emerged as the top schools in BoF’s first Global Fashion School Rankings. But our survey also reveals widespread dissatisfaction amongst the more than 4,000 students and alumni who participated in our survey. Is fashion education selling a false dream. More...
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