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4 août 2014

Playing the Odds

By Timothy Burke. The idea that higher education makes you a better person in some respect has long been its soft underbelly. The proposition makes most current faculty and administrators uncomfortable, especially at the smaller teaching-centered colleges that are prone to invoke tropes about community and ethics. The discomfort comes both from how “improvement” necessarily invokes an older conception of college as a finishing school for a small, genteel elite and from how genuinely indispensible it seems for most definitions of “liberal arts”. More...

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4 août 2014

Should Academic Librarians Have Tenure May Be the Wrong Question

By Barbara Fister. Meredith Farkas wrote a terrific post on her move to a non-tenure-track position and why she thinks tenure for librarians is counterproductive. The stimulating Twitter conversations that followed (some of them Storified by Meredith) made me want to unpack what I think about this issue. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Why no MOOCs on Gaza?

By Kris Olds. I don't know about you, but my sense is global politics seems to be on the up this summer regarding turmoil and debate. And, consequently, there is a lot of debate about conflicts in places like the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, and so on. In this context I watched some fascinating, if depressing, documentaries last night on PBS' Frontline. They focused on Syria and Iraq and were relatively well done, helping me to learn more about these complex countries and their associated conflicts. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Home and away

By G. Rendell. If your institution has signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (or, perhaps,even if it hasn't), somebody on your campus periodically inventories greenhouse gas emissions. Technically, there are six "Kyoto gases" that should be inventoried, but for most campuses only three really matter -- carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. So the short answer to "what gases do you inventory?" is a three-item list. But the longer answer, and the more complex one, is more important. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Getting the Most from a MOOC

By Nate Sleeter - Higher Ed Beta. When MOOCs are contrasted with traditional residential courses, such comparisons are often based on individual components (video vs. live lectures, online forums vs. classroom discussion, multiple-choice tests vs. graded papers, etc.). While such comparative analyses are worthwhile, they may miss the most important element of learning success: the motivation level of a student. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Meaningful Interaction in Online Courses

By Nate Sleeter - Higher Ed Beta. This post is the second in a series. The first, "Beyond Flipping Classrooms," can be read here.
Critics of online education, especially in the humanities, often stress the importance of face-to-face interaction. Read more...

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4 août 2014

In Defense of Central IT

By Joshua Kim. At the end of this post you will find the full text of a comment from “Alamo", made in response to my piece The Edge and the Center: How is Central IT Evolving on Your Campus.
Maybe you should jump down and read Alamo’s thoughts. Read more...

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4 août 2014

On Being Alone

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. It's been almost a full week that I've been home alone, without the family. We've also just moved, so I don't have many friends I can hang out with after work, either. And as most of my friends who are relatively close by are academics, they're mostly away, during the last bit of calm before the storm of the semester starts. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Math Geek Mom: Study Abroad

By Rosemarie Emanuele. When the founder of economics, Adam Smith, wrote his groundbreaking work about the origins of the Wealth of Nations, it was in response to the political situation of the day. Indeed, since then, the term “political economy” is sometimes used to describe the study of economics, especially as economics relates to politics, which is very often. Read more...

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4 août 2014

August

By Herman Berliner. A university campus during August is often a very different place. Summer sessions are winding down, camp is winding down, most faculty and most students are not here until late in the month. I always miss the interaction with faculty and students and I especially miss the energy that is omnipresent during the academic year. Read more...

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