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5 juillet 2014

Corinthian to Sell 95 of Its Campuses Under Education Dept. Agreement

By Goldie Blumenstyk. Corinthian Colleges Inc. will put 85 of its campuses in the United States up for sale and "teach out" the other 12 under a deal finalized with the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday night. Separately, it will sell its 10 campuses in Canada.
The campuses it won’t be selling enroll a total of about 3,400 students, or about 5 percent of the for-profit higher-education company’s overall enrollment. More...

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5 juillet 2014

New website lists contract info for state government, public colleges and universities

By Martha Stoddard. A newly launched state website opens a window into Nebraska state government contracts and contracts signed by public colleges and universities. The site went live Tuesday. It allows people to search for, monitor and review contracts, which account for a major portion of state spending. Contracts can be searched by agency or higher education institution, vendor and dollar amount. The intent of the website is to provide links to the original document and all amendments for each contract. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Life and learning on the fast track

By James Martin and James E. Samels. Is the trend toward accelerated degrees the natural outcome of decades of degree inflation?
Some see the three year baccalaureate as a fad which will ultimately dilute the depth, breadth, and rigor of the true college learning and living experience. Other commentators see the accelerated credentials megatrend as the natural outcome of decades of degree inflation. More...

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5 juillet 2014

Beyond Flipping Classrooms

By Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, Kelly Schrumand Nate Sleeter - Higher Ed Beta. The notion of a "flipped classroom” — students watch recorded lectures outside of class and participate in active learning during class meetings — has gained significant attention in recent years. It's an appealing notion in that it satisfies those who seek to promote active learning in higher education as well as those who feel strongly that the traditional physical classroom should remain the focus of learning. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

The Facebook Furor

By Kenneth C. Green. Tens of thousands of academics and other observers of Internet life who did not know the name Adam Kramer on Sunday night certainly now it now. But on the chance you’ve been “off the grid” for the past 24 hours, Adam Kramer is the Facebook data scientist who served as a the lead author on a research project that manipulated the positive and negative information in the Facebook News Feed to assess the emotional impact positive and negative news on some 690,000 Facebook users. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Australia is following America’s bad example

By Andrys Onsman. For those in Australia who took advantage of the brief moment in the 1970s when the country’s higher education system was free, it was heartwarming to see students in streets demanding that the government reverse its determination to deregulate the HE system. Augmented by those who turn up at any protest, students vented their anger at the prospect of universities becoming deregulated and mimicking patterns that define higher education in the USA. Christopher Pyne, the Minister for Education suggested that. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

A Facebook SOS From My Mother

By Eric Stoller. My mom joined Facebook in January of this year. It was a bit of a shock to get a friend request from someone who is much more than a friend to me. When I accepted her FB request, I noticed that she already had 8 friends. I quickly typed up a "welcome to Facebook" post on her wall. Having been on Facebook since 2004, I knew that my mom was going to go through the massive FB learning curve that a lot of us take for granted. Facebook has gone through so many UX iterations, privacy updates, and currently includes more than 1.25 billion users. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Thoughts on an Unsuccessful Course

By John Warner. This past semester I had one of my most, let’s call it interesting, challenges of my teaching career. My first year writing course was paired with a second semester Biology course as part of a Learning Community, which is part of College of Charleston’s First Year Experience, a program like those on many other campuses designed to put a small cohort of students in a seminar format in order to provide an engaging academic experience, as well as a peer support system for outside the classroom. It's a great program, and I'm a huge believer in its mission. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Just Deserts

By Oronte. The older I get the more it seems “I want everything coming to me” might be one of those notions best left to the young. Picture seven billion little hurricanes wreaking havoc on the coast of good intentions. Of course it’s nice to be rewarded, whatever that means in your field. For writers it’s to have the capacity, freedom, and support to do your best work; to publish well in hopes of critical and popular notice; and to have staying power. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Which American Dream?

By G. Rendell. When I go on about how we, as a nation, expend too much time, money and energy (not just human energy) on housing, transportation, unhealthy food and just stuff in general, one or more students often object that I'm attacking The American Dream. I don't think I am, because I don't think the "dream" they have in mind is the dream which served as the founding ethos of this country. Living in a McMansion with a three-car garage, commuting an hour or more each day, subsisting on food that doesn't require attentive preparation but contains multiple ingredients we can't pronounce, thinking that "family time" is when we're all on Facebook simultaneously, truly believing that buying the latest widget will somehow provide us with an abiding sense of fulfillment even though no other widget we've ever purchased has managed to do that for more than 10 hours... I don't remember reading about any of those practices in 8th grade American History. Read more...

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