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22 mars 2015

Email Overload? A Review of Sanebox, an Email Management Tool

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . I often refer to my inbox as the abyss from which few return, given how overwhelmed I generally am. Faced with a constant email deluge, I’m always worried that I will forget to answer important emails (I do), or even non-urgent ones that may fall off the face of the earth once they get buried at the bottom of my to-answer pile. Read more...
22 mars 2015

“Know Thy Selfie”: A Selfie Group Discussion Assignment

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . “Selfies,” or self-taken photographs, have become as ubiquitous as the smartphone. Their popularity has even spurred the formation of an academic group, The Selfies Research Network. Your students take selfies, you probably do as well. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Making Story Games with Twine 2.0

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . I’ve written about many game tools here at ProfHacker, including Inform 7, Construct 2, and Inklewriter. One of my favorite platforms to work in personally is Twine. As I wrote previously, Twine is a powerful platform for building HTML5 games that can be played in the browser, and it works in a card-based model that’s very friendly to non-programmers. Read more...
22 mars 2015

Professor Non Grata: Andrew Ross on Collusion and Delusion

By . Across the board, faculty have been skeptical of their college administrators’ enthusiasm to build campuses in illiberal societies, like China and the Gulf states. What agreements have been made to smooth the way? How much money is changing hands as part of the deal? Who will oversee the curriculum design? And, above all, who can guarantee that basic protections for academic freedom will be honored in countries where dissenters are locked up, physically abused, and deported on a regular basis?
The United Arab Emirates has made a strenuous effort to lure universities, along with top-flight cultural brands like the Louvre, the Guggenheim, and the British Museum. More...

22 mars 2015

Welcome to Ohio State, Where Everything Is for Sale

By . I’m excited to announce that my university has changed its motto. Out with the old and in with: “Omnia Venduntur!
Our old motto,Disciplina In Civitatem,” or “Education for Citizenship,” just sounded so, you know, land-granty, so civic-minded. It certainly doesn’t capture our new ethos of entrepreneurial dynamism and financial chicanery. More...

22 mars 2015

U. of New Haven and Upstart Coding School Team Up on Master’s Program

By . The University of New Haven has teamed up with Galvanize, one of those upstart coding schools, to create GalvanizeU, a 12-month master’s program in data science based in San Francisco. The program will allow students to both take courses and work alongside industry players. The inaugural class will begin coursework next week. More...

22 mars 2015

LinkedIn Expands Efforts to Help Colleges Keep in Touch With Students and Alumni

By . The social-networking company announced on Wednesday a new feature that allows college students and graduates to add their college affiliation to the education section of their profile by clicking a button on the college’s website or in an email from the college. When they do that, public information from their profile, such as where they live and work and what they do, is then compiled into college-specific metrics. More...

22 mars 2015

New .College Domain Is Opportunity for Some Colleges, Worry for Others

By . A college’s online presence isn’t as simple as the classic .edu. The college also has to worry about .com, .net, and .org, to protect its good name. And as of this week, there’s another domain type to worry about: .college. More...

22 mars 2015

Videos Find Their Place In and Out of the Classroom

By . Among today’s students, videos as an educational tool are as expected as textbooks. A new study has found that 68 percent of students watch videos in class, and 79 percent watch them on their own time, outside of class, to assist in their learning. More...

22 mars 2015

U.A.E. Incident Raises Questions for Colleges That Open Campuses in Restrictive Countries

subscribe todayBy Katherine Mangan. A New York University professor stopped on his way to conduct research in the United Arab Emirates said he wasn’t completely surprised when he learned, while trying to board a plane at Kennedy International Airport this week, that he’d been barred from entering the country.
He had, after all, publicly criticized the exploitation of migrant construction workers who helped build NYU’s new campus in Abu Dhabi, the emirates’ capital. He knew that wouldn’t sit well with local authorities who he said have kicked researchers out of the country for less. More...

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