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23 juin 2013

Inside a MOOC in Progress

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/wired-campus-nameplate.gifBy Karen Head. After months of preparation, we finally started our MOOC, “First-Year Composition 2.0,” at Georgia Tech. We are now through the first few weeks of the eight-week course, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Veteran MOOC instructors warned me that the early weeks would be bumpy. The actual experience has often left me panickedand worried that the course would not be successful. This is not like a traditional course, in which you have a day or two to deal with issues that come up in class. MOOC students expect immediate responses, and that means nearly 24/7 monitoring of the course. Read more...
23 juin 2013

The Smell of Support: Notre Dame Unveils Fragrance Line

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/the-ticker-nameplate.gifBy Jane Bartman. The University of Notre Dame has long been known for its enthusiastic sports fans. Now, the South Bend Tribune reports, all of those rabid supporters will be able to show their commitment in a new way—with perfume and cologne. But don’t worry: They won’t get the chance to smell like Manti Te’o on game day. Read more...
23 juin 2013

Demographic Change Doesn’t Mean the Sky’s Falling

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/headcount-newnameplate.gifBy Eric Hoover.The evolution of enrollment management has long entwined with the story of changing demographics. Here at the Harvard Summer Institute on College Admissions on Tuesday, William R. Fitzsimmons described how many of today’s recruitment strategies grew from dire predictions back in the late 1970s, when colleges were bracing for a sharp decline in the number of high-school graduates. Read more...
23 juin 2013

In a Rare Collaboration, Researchers Will Study Student-Loan Counseling at DeVry U.

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/bottom-line-header.pngBy Goldie Blumenstyk.Many academics say they have a hard time conducting unfettered research on students at for-profit colleges. And just about everyone says that all students, but particularly those who are first-generation college students from from lower-income families, need better counseling about the loans they are assuming to go to college. Read more...

23 juin 2013

When College Becomes a Risky Investment

http://chronicle.com/img/subscribe_11_2011.jpgBy Robert E. Martin. Economists mislead families by framing college attendance as an issue of capital investment rather than one of affordability. Telling parents and students that they should choose the college with the highest net present value, or predicted return on their tuition investment, encourages them to choose the most expensive college they can. Since colleges work to convince the public that quality and cost are directly correlated, the investment framework is a good complement to marketing strategies. In fact, no objective data support the hypothesis that higher cost means higher quality in education. The data are lacking because colleges and universities provide few objective measures of quality, even though the market has called for that evidence for decades. Read more...
23 juin 2013

Ph.D. Placement Project

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/profhacker-nameplate.gifBy Erin E. Templeton. Regular readers of the Chronicle are surely familiar with the ongoing discussion about the merits of graduate education both generally and in the humanities more specifically. Whatever your position on the “Go!/Don’t Go!” debate (note: two different links), one thing is clear: more information about where Ph.D.s end up would be very helpful both to potential candidates, employers, and the professoriate more generally. In his most recent column, William Pannapacker threw down the gauntlet, so to speak. Read more...
23 juin 2013

Unabridged Commentary

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/lingua-franca-nameplate.pngBy Allan Metcalf.
unabridged
noun A big dictionary.
unabridged
adjective (Of a dictionary) big.
We’re so used to these definitions—most recently applied to the online Merriam-Webster Unabridged—that we don’t notice how odd it is to use “unabridged” for a dictionary. For that distinctive use, we can thank George and Charles Merriam. What other word might you use to indicate that a dictionary is big? Well, you could try Universal, as in Nathaniel Bailey’s 1721 Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Noah Webster tried Compendious for his 1806 Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. But most of the big dictionaries, including Samuel Johnson’s 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language and Webster’s 1828 An American Dictionary of the English Language, didn’t even try to mention size in their titles. Read more...
23 juin 2013

Acht Milliarden Euro für Unis: Stifterverband empfiehlt Mehrwertsteuererhöhung

http://www.spiegel.de/static/sys/v10/logo/spiegel_online_logo_460_64.pngMehrwertsteuer rauf für eine bessere Hochschulfinanzierung! Das fordert der Präsident des Stifterverbandes für Deutsche Wissenschaft - auch wenn dafür das Grundgesetz geändert werden müsste. Für eine bessere Ausstattung der Universitäten schlägt Andreas Barner, der neue Präsident des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, eine Erhöhung der Mehrwertsteuer um einen Prozentpunkt vor. Dies sagte der 60-Jährige dem manager magazin in einem Interview. Barner, der den Pharmakonzern Boehringer Ingelheim leitet, hält eine bessere Finanzierung der deutschen Hochschulen für "eine nationale Aufgabe".
Die Erhöhung brächte jährlich rund acht Milliarden Euro mehr in die Kasse des Bundes - so dass, wie Barner im manager magazin fordert, das Gesamtbudget der Hochschulen jedes Jahr um fünf Prozent steigen könnte. "Die nachhaltige Hochschulfinanzierung ist so wichtig, da muss man auch zu großen Sprüngen bereit sein", sagte er. Mehr...
23 juin 2013

MOOC: quelle stratégie pour les établissements ?

http://blog.educpros.fr/matthieu-cisel/files/2013/04/cropped-earth.jpgBlog Educpros de Matthieu Cisel. Les établissements d’enseignement supérieur sont à de plus en plus nombreux à vouloir se lancer dans l’aventure des MOOC, et se posent la question de la stratégie à adopter. Compte tenu des moyens limités dont ils disposent, il faut faire des choix. Suite de l'article...
http://blog.educpros.fr/matthieu-cisel/files/2013/04/cropped-earth.jpg Educpros blag de Matthieu Cisel. Níos mó...
23 juin 2013

Sénatrices et sénateurs docteurs (9 sur 348)

http://blog.educpros.fr/doctrix/files/2013/04/Logo-Doctrix.X2-1-e1365513013755.jpgBlog Educpros de Sebastien Poulain, Evelyne Jardin et Fanny Lalleman. Alors que la loi sur l’Enseignement supérieure et la recherche (ESR) arrive au Sénat, combien de docteurs sur les bancs du Palais du Luxembourg? D’après nos recherches (merci, Philippe!), seulement 9 sur 348 sénateurs élus, dont 5 Professeurs des universités. Qui sont-ils/elles? Car honneur aux femmes!
Esther Benbassa (Val-de-Marne, EELV), thèse en Orient et monde arabe, sujet « Haim Nahum Efendi, dernier grand rabbin de l’Empire ottoman 1908-1920: son rôle politique et diplomatique », soutenue à l’université Paris 3 en 1987. Elle a été interviewée par Doctrix...
Combien de docteurs au Palais Bourbon? 15 députés docteurs, voir la liste dans notre billet « Législatives, les docteur(e)s élu(e)s« , publié le 20 juin 2012. Voir l'article entier...
http://blog.educpros.fr/doctrix/files/2013/04/Logo-Doctrix.X2-1-e1365513013755.jpg Blog of Educpros Sebastien Poulain, Evelyne Garden and Fanny Lalleman. While the Law on Higher Education and Research (ESR) arrives in the Senate, how many doctors on the benches of the Luxembourg Palace? Our research (thank you, Philippe!), Only 9 of 348 senators elected, 5 University professors. More...
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