By Paul Fain. Brandman University’s competency-based bachelor’s degree gives a glimpse of where the increasingly popular form of higher education might be headed. Read more...
7 décembre 2014
7 décembre 2014
Australia Orders Plagiarism Review
By Peter van Onselen for The Australian. Australia's education minister has written to the head of the agency that oversees the country's higher education standards expressing his “utmost concern” about suspected systemic plagiarism by international students in Australian universities. Read more...
7 décembre 2014
Thinking about grading
By Robert Talbert. After reading about specifications grading in this article and then interviewing Linda Nilson about her book on the subject, I read Linda’s book over the holiday break. It’s causing a chain reaction in my mind about how I view and assess student work that expands outward into how I think about teaching and learning on a fundamental level. More...
7 décembre 2014
Will and Grace
By David Scott Kastan. Thanksgiving week, news outlets worldwide trumpeted the discovery of a previously unknown copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (the first collected edition of his works, published in 1623). Lacking its title page and other prefatory matter, the book had been incorrectly cataloged in the public library of a small French town near Calais. Read more...7 décembre 2014
Open Thread Wednesday: Favorite Higher Ed YouTube Channels?
By Jason B. Jones. Today I am/will be in New York at something called a YouTube Educator Lab, in order in part to learn more about building out YouTube channels for my college. But that led me to realize that I don’t think I subscribe to any explicitly higher-ed related YouTube channels myself. There are a couple of topic-specific ones I follow, but otherwise I rely on search. Read more...7 décembre 2014
How to Start or Improve a Podcast
By Jason B. Jones. The New York Times has inferred from the success of Serial that podcasts are now officially a thing. We have been writing about podcasts for years: Ethan posted guides to recording and editing lectures as podcasts ; Evan Cordulack wrote a guest post on “Four Mistakes I Made When Assigning Podcasts<"/a>; and Chuck Tryon wrote one on “Recording and Hosting Podcasts Using the Internet Archive.”. (And, of course, every six months or so we ask people for new podcast recommendations.) But now that the Times is on it, the time may be ripe for exploring podcasts as a way to reach new audiences for one’s research or community work, or for engaging with students. Read more...7 décembre 2014
What Monsters Lurk In Your LMS? Audrey Watters on Education Technology
By Jason B. Jones. Education technology is a term loaded up with venture-capital-funded hype men and a longer, more tangled history than those folks usually acknowledge. Over the past several years, few journalists have been as critically and historically minded in their coverage of ed tech’s complex story than Audrey Watters, the freelance journalist who writes Hack Education. Her blog is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the history of education and technology, or even just marvel at the farcical repetitions of ed tech hype cycles. Read more...7 décembre 2014
Who Will Log You Out When You’re Gone?
By Jason B. Jones. I long ago exceeded my capacity to remember passwords, especially for my institutional accounts which require password changes at regular intervals. As a result, I use a password manager to keep up with all my passwords. As it happens, I use 1Password, which syncs everywhere, generates and keeps track of preposterously complex passwords, and keeps other kinds of information, such as credit card numbers, passport information, and more secure yet available. It’s a neat thing. Read more...7 décembre 2014
Doxie Portable Scanners Get a Wifi Upgrade
By Jason B. Jones. For a couple of years now, I’ve been fond of the Doxie line of portable scanners. Three years ago, I looked at the Doxie Go (as did Konrad!), and two years ago I reviewed the second version, the Doxie One. Last year’s model, the Doxie Flip, didn’t really fit into my life very well, but this year’s upgrades to the Doxie Go are pretty terrific. Read more...7 décembre 2014
This Transatlantic Life
By Rose Jacobs. I’ll grant that it might have been my location at the time—sitting in a university clinic—that made the phrase “winding up in hospital” jump out at me when listening to a recent podcast of This American Life. But I put the jolt down to the lack of an article. More...
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