By Joshua Kim. Twitter is a fabulous platform for our #ELI2015 community. Or maybe #ELI2015 is the community. I’m having trouble separating the virtual network of tweeters from the physical network of people here in Anaheim. Or maybe it is not necessary to all be in one place at one time to build our ELI community, as those attending virtually have just as much access to the Twitter conversation as those of us in California. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I love Jeff’s tweet about my piece 20 Questions at ELI 2015 on so many levels. The Jay-Z reference. That he jumped off the IHE platform, and pushed the conversation (and his critique) into Twitter. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Our people are descending on Anaheim for 3 days of geeking out at the intersection of learning and technology. Why are you attending, (or wish you could be attending), the 2015 ELI Annual Meeting? If the ELI Annual Meeting is not on your radar as a “must attend gathering”, why do you think this is so. Read more...
By Oronte. Look with me, if you will, into the petri dish of Louisiana, for what it might predict for the future of American higher ed. Governor Bobby Jindal (R) has said he’ll cut state funding to higher education in the next fiscal year by $200 million to $300 million. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Although the availability of graphing calculators is a great asset in teaching Calculus, I tell my students that one of my goals is for them to be able to leave my class with the ability of being able to imagine a function by just looking at it and doing simple calculations in their heads. Many of them come to Calculus never having been asked to do anything like that, but I ask them to consider how the slope or intercepts of a function come together with an equation to produce a picture that can just as easily appear in their minds as on the screen of a calculator.. Read more...By Susan O'Doherty. As I have illustrated here before, I tend to fall on the "overly attached" end of the parenting spectrum. This is most likely due to a combination of factors, including inborn temperament, traumatic early losses, and Ben's status as a "miracle baby," a healthy and thriving child after a series of spontaneous abortions spanning more than 20 years. Read more...
Just 12 percent of colleges enroll 60 percent of all Latino undergraduates, according to a new analysis from Excelencia in Education and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). These colleges are deemed to be Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) under federal guidelines. Read more...
The National Association of the Deaf on Thursday sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saying the institutions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by not captioning all of the course content they make available online. Read more...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this week released results from a survey it commissioned of faculty attitudes, with a particular focus on courseware that can "personalize" learning. FTI Consulting conducted the survey, receiving roughly 4,000 responses. Read more...
About a third (32 percent) of women professors, administrators and other staff say they lack confidence when it comes to financial planning for retirement, compared to 19 percent of men working in higher education, says a new report from Fidelity Investments. Read more...
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