By Robert Talbert. We’re currently looking at points of skepticism about flipped learning and the flipped classroom. In the last post, we discussed the issue of students objecting to the flipped classroom because it is nothing more than having students teach themselves the subject. More...
By Robert Talbert. I had to take a bit of a hiatus for the last two weeks to finish up the semester and to give and grade exams. Now that this is over, I wanted to come back and address some of the comments in these two posts. Specifically, many of those comments are principled skepticisms of flipped learning and the flipped classroom, and rather than bury my responses in an already crowded comment thread, I thought they deserved to be brought up point by point for discussion. More...
By Michael Bérubé. Coming soon: The next outrage in your university health-care plan. And it’s all part of “business as usual.”
Here at Pennsylvania State University, the new bad news is steep hikes in health-coverage rates for graduate students, combined with cuts in benefits. The real “usual” is saving money at the expense of those who can least afford it. More...
By Barry Checkoway. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, I have a proposal to increase the number of African-American students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor: Try harder!
Black enrollment dipped to 4.4 percent this year, a figure that some attribute to the effects of Michigan’s constitutional ban on race as a factor in admissions, or to difficulties in competing with wealthy private institutions, or to other forces in a larger society in which affirmative action is challenged. More...
By Jackson Lears. The Rutgers University Board of Governors has invited Condoleezza Rice to speak at the 2014 commencement and to receive an honorary doctor-of-laws degree. No one is denying her right to speak, but many Rutgers faculty members and students are appalled by the board’s decision to grant Rice the university’s highest honor. In response to that decision, my colleagues and I are planning a teach-in, to be held on May 6. We want to give our students a firmer grasp of their own recent history, in which Rice played a major role in the most troubling events. More...
By Guest Writer. The following is by Michael Woolf, deputy president for strategic development at CAPA International Education, a study-abroad provider.
In a previous post, I raised a skeptical eyebrow at what I take to be a faddish enthusiasm for “nontraditional” locations in study abroad, usually meaning trips to developing countries. As the cliché goes, a lively discussion ensued. More...
By Anastasia Salter. I’ve lost a lot of hours to copying text from scans and photos of documents I’ve found on the web or taken for my own records. Some websites (particularly older websites that relied too much on flash or image files for their design) are particularly annoying to cite because nothing can be copied and pasted. While optical character recognition (OCR) software has come a long way, most of what I need isn’t worth the investment or the time of using specialized software. However, this might finally be getting a bit easier now that I’m using the new Project Naptha Chrome browser extension, which integrates a relatively smooth solution to the problem of text recognition into the browser. More...
By Natalie Houston. One of the productivity tools that Stephen R. Covey has made well known in books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First is a four-quadrant matrix that visualizes the four possible combinations of Urgency and Importance. More...
By Prof. Hacker. Each Wednesday, ProfHacker hosts an open thread discussion. Sometimes a specific topic is announced, and sometimes the discussion is completely open. Please remember to abide by our commenting and community guidelines. Thanks!
Hey, it’s Wednesday! I think you know what that means. It’s time for an open thread! More...
By Amy Cavender. Last November, I wrote about running Ubuntu on a Chromebook using ChrUbuntu. In that post, I noted some of the advantages of running ChrUbuntu: I really liked having a full-blown desktop environment to work in, and ChrUbuntu worked much better for me than Crouton. More...
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