By Edward Abeyta - EvoLLLution. Today I’m going to be talking about a perception gap. It’s an emerging topic in our country and it’s a perception gap that hits corporations and higher learning institutions. Specifically, the perception gap is around work preparedness. More...
By Allison Rossett - EvoLLLution. I often think about the condition of higher education, but was concerned not at all when I went to see “La Boheme” in a movie theater at the mall. More...
By . The basic premise behind communities of practice is simple: we all learn in everyday life from the communities in which we find ourselves. Communities of practice are everywhere. Nearly everyone belongs to some community of practice, whether it is through our working colleagues or associates, our profession or trade, or our leisure interests, such as a book club. Wenger (2000) argues that a community of practice is different from a community of interest or a geographical community in that it involves a shared practice: ways of doing things that are shared to some significant extent among members. Read more...
By Cathy Davidson. Before we can radically reinvent college, we need to add at least two more structural, material changes to the four in this month's Wired magazine article by writer Martha Rhodes, "4 Radical Ideas for Reinventing College, Drawn From Stanford Research." The four changes advocated in Wired come from the famous design school, the d.school, at Stanford and one of its leading lights, Professor Sarah Stein Greenberg. I like these a lot--and readers of the Cat in the Stack posts at hastac.org will recognize all of them from many of my past posts. More...
By Phil Hill. Well that was an interesting session at Educause as described at Inside Higher Ed:
It took the Kuali leadership 20 minutes to address the elephant in the conference center meeting room. More...
By Michael Feldstein. I have long thought that LinkedIn has the potential to be one of the most transformative companies in ed tech for one simple reason: They have far more cross-institutional longitudinal outcomes data than anybody else—including government agencies. Just about anybody else who wants access to career path information of graduates across universities would face major privacy and data gathering hurdles. But LinkedIn has somehow convinced hundreds of millions of users to voluntarily enter that information and make it available for public consumption. The company clearly knows this and has been working behind the scenes to make use of this advantage. I have been waiting to see what they will come up with. More...
Auch wenn die Doktorarbeit sauber ist, darf der Titel zur Strafe entzogen werden: Weil er in seiner späteren Laufbahn massiv Daten gefälscht hatte, verlor ein ehemaliger Star-Physiker seinen akademischen Grad - zu Recht, befand jetzt das Verfassungsgericht. Mehr...Das erste Referat an der Uni macht vielen Studenten Angst. Doch mit der richtigen Vorbereitung klappt jeder Vortrag - eine Anleitung für Stressgeplagte. Mehr...Von "duz"-Autor Benjamin Haerdle. Voller Einsatz bringt Extrageld: An Hochschulen dürfen sich fast nur Professoren über Boni freuen, Höchstleistungen von Mitarbeitern werden kaum gewürdigt. Warum nicht. Mehr...Von Saskia Ibrom. Mit 37.000 Euro Schulden ins Arbeitsleben: Rafael, heute Art Director, verließ sich bei der Finanzierung seines Grafikstudiums auf die Deutsche Bank. Heute weiß er, dass das keine gute Entscheidung war. Mehr.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
