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By Cathy Davidson. I'm going to give a talk tonight (March 11) at the famous Rhode Island School of Design on "Learning to Learn:  Why Education Needs a Paradigm Shift."  It is at 7 pm in Metcalf Auditorium if you are around.
I want to frame my talk around one question:  "What if we thought ofhigher education as preparation to be a world changer, in any sphere you choose, in whatever profession you aspire to?   What if we thought of higher education as the way to help prepare you for the best, most productive, most satisfying, most constructive contribution you could make to helping the world be a better place?  What if we set the bar that high? More...

By Donald Beagle. Back in 2004-05, while I was writing The Information Commons Handbook (ALA / Neal-Schuman, 2006), I became keenly interested in the potential for Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) to be morphed into web-based learning environments by enterprising and creative faculty in collaboration with librarians. I was especially struck by a) the extraordinary size and scope of the typical MMOG player base, and b) the remarkable degree of user engagement and persistence. I called attention to these factors in my book, because I saw the new academic library framework of the Information Commons and Learning Commons as possible platforms for MMOG learning-model development by faculty and MMOG learning-model engagement by students. These possibilities seemed to me exciting, and potentially transformative. More...

The 4th Gender Summit will be held June 30th and July 1st 2014 in Brussels. This year, the theme will be: “From Ideas to Markets: Excellence in mainstreaming gender into research, innovation, and policy” and it will have will also focus on strategies, tools, and processes that promote the concrete integration of the gender dimension into the European Commission’s current Horizon 2020, and European Research Area programmes. The aim of the programme is to provide an scholarly outlet as well as linkages to policy and an arena for networking. More...

Von Lisa Schnell. Die Studenten haben sich im Bachelor-System eingerichtet, sie sind zufrieden - doch kritisches Denken lernt der akademische Nachwuchs immer weniger, bemängeln Forscher. Die Studenten selbst vermissen vor allem eine gute Berufsvorbereitung.
Überall in Deutschland besetzten Studenten 2009 Hörsäle und wehrten sich so gegen die Einführung des Bachelor- und Master-Systems. Jetzt, fünf Jahre später, befasst sich eine Studie erstmals umfassend nur mit den neuen Studiengängen. Ihr sperriger Titel: "Das Bachelor- und Master-Studium im Spiegel des Studienqualitätsmonitors". Sie wurde vom Deutschen Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW) durchgeführt und wertet den jährlich erhobenen Studienqualitätsmonitor für die Jahre 2009 bis 2012 aus. Die Online-Umfrage ist repräsentativ, zuletzt beteiligten sich über 26.300 Studenten. Mehr...

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. By handcuffing marketing emails to university newsletters, Ucas is giving a grubby illusion of choice to hard-up students. If you needed further proof that education has become little more than a commodity, then the news that Ucas is selling access to millions of students to advertisers might just be it. Leaving aside for a moment the murky moral implications of making information about children available to private companies for the purposes of profit (and they are children – the vast majority of those applying to university are under 18), there's also the fact that prospective students' hands are being forced. More...