By . The Student Loans Company has been criticised after sending medical details and even a psychological assessment of applicants to the wrong people. Three students had their details disclosed to other loan applicants in 2012, the Information Commissioner’s Office has revealed. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Colleen Flaherty reports for InsideHigherEd from the Modern Language Association conference 2014. Criticising humanities doctoral programmes is easy. They take too long, they continue to emphasise training for tenure-track faculty positions in an era when such positions are scarce, they encourage the book-model of dissertation at a time when books are hard to publish, even full funding isn’t always “full” – the list goes on.
Solving the PhD predicament is much harder, but that’s what the Modern Language Association is attempting to do, or at least start to do, in a new report. The Report of the MLA Task Force on Doctoral Study in Modern Literature culminates two formal years of work but reflects discussions dating to 2008 and earlier. More...
By . Scheme offers young researchers the chance to build media profile. The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers have been named. The annual scheme, sponsored by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was launched in 2010 and selects 10 promising young academics who are not only working in areas judged to be of broad interest, but who also have the presentational skills to make their work accessible. More...
By . NUS/OCR poll finds widespread disquiet over Michael Gove’s proposals. Three-quarters of students oppose government plans to reform A levels, according to a poll. More...
By Graeme Paton. Prof Orlando Figes, of Birkbeck, University of London, says students no longer read books as they get information from websites such as Wikipedia and SparkNotes. Read more...By Graeme Paton. Research by the Association of Graduate Recruiters finds that many employers are failing to fill graduate-level jobs despite a surge in the number of university leavers. Read more...By Josie Gurney-Read. Applied to university in England but have yet to submit an application for student finance? This week is your final opportunity to do so before the deadline on May 30. As you are probably already aware, a student loan is available to cover tuition fees, which can be up to a maximum amount of £9,000 per year. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Institute for Open Leadership
Open Policy Network, May 26, 2014
Are you good enough for open learning? "Who should apply to be an IOL Fellow? Public and private sector professionals interested in openness and policy with the passion and potential to make a high impact at their institution and/or government through open policy*. Emerging leaders in academia, the arts, cultural institutions, government, scientific labs, and others who are eager to become experts in open licensing." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Developing world MOOCs – A workshop on MOOCs in Africa
Tony Carr, e/merge Africa, May 26, 2014
From Tony Carr: "Are you curious about MOOCs or already developing or running MOOCs in Africa? From Tuesday 17 June - Friday 27 June 2014 we present "Developing World MOOCs - a workshop on MOOCs in Africa" led by Sukaina Walji, Andrew Deacon and Janet Small from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town, South Africa." The workshop is online and of course anyone can join. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Cooperation and Collaboration
Stephen Downes, May 26, 2014, International Workshop on Mass Collaboration and Education, Tübingen, Germany
In this presentation I revisit some of my work on 'groups and networks' to draw out the distinction between cooperation and collaboration for this mass collaboration workshop. I argue that mass collaboration may be impossible to achieve, and show how we employed a principle of mass cooperation to support massive open online courses (MOOCs). I also introduced new terminology, using the term 'collective' to describe what I have been calling 'groups', and 'connectives' to describe what I have been calling networks. [Link] [Slides] [Audio]. More...
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