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6 avril 2015

America’s UnExcellence Initiatives

By Philip G. Altbach. The world is focused on improving their top universities in order to be more competitive in the global knowledge economy and to raise their numbers in the higher education rankings. Jamil Salmi counted at least 36 “excellence initiatives” around the world that have pumped billions of dollars into the top universities in these countries — with resulting improvements in quality, research productivity, and emerging improvements un the rankings of these universities. Even in cash-strapped Russia, the “5-100” initiative is providing 70 million into each of 15 selected universities to help them improve and compete globally. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

Innovative Knowledge-Practice Networks

By Thomas Carey. In the first part of this post, we reviewed the concept of faculty emotional ownership in an innovative teaching community as a way to reduce Not-Invented-Here obstacles to scaling up effective teaching practices for student success. In this follow-up, we’re going to focus on emerging developments that are centered on course-related collaborations. That usually involves some kind of repository of shared course resources, but it’s important to see the repository as a tool for supporting the collaboration (not the other way round, where the shared course is seen as the targeted result and the collaboration is just there to support it). More...

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6 avril 2015

Collaboration, not Commoditization

By Thomas Carey. In a previous post I made a case for the importance of emotional ownership in scaling up educational innovations, in particular how we could “build a bigger Here” as a way to address Not-Invented-Here obstacles. In this post I want to drill down on some encouraging new opportunities to build emotional ownership of educational innovations. More...

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6 avril 2015

An Introduction to Text Expansion

By Hanna Peacock. Do you find yourself typing the exact same phrase multiple times each day or sending nearly the identical email to various people? Do you make the same strange spelling mistake over and over? Do you get annoyed hunting for special characters for a word or phrase you type often. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

Co-Authoring with a Professor

By DeWitt Scott. Students in today’s graduate programs are being pressured more and more to publish substantial amounts of articles and book chapters before receiving their PhDs. We are constantly told that in order to compete on the cutthroat job market for academic positions, we will be expected to have a semi-extensive publication record. Such expectations have forced graduate students to seek almost every opportunity to submit work for publication. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

Fees, Fees, and More Damn Fees

By Wendy Robinson. When I decided to begin the program, I had to make a decision about how to pay for it. I was offered a very small scholarship ($800, which basically covered books for my first few semesters) and applied for financial aid. Although I had money in savings, I opted to use student loans instead. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

Dear New York Times,

By Matt Reed. I’m writing to apply for a position as editor of your higher education coverage. Judging by Sunday’s column, “The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much,” written by law professor Paul Campos, you need one. Preferably, one who has actually been in the room when tuition increases have been proposed and discussed. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Response

By Matt Reed. Kevin Carey’s new book is on the bestseller list, and getting reviews in all sorts of high-profile places. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges, by Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars, and Davis Jenkins of the Community College Research Center, is likely to receive much less attention. And that’s a shame, because RACC is by far the more useful, grounded, and thoughtful of the two. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

The List

By Matt Reed. If you knew that a college had its access to Federal financial aid money restricted due to concerns about risks to taxpayers and students, would you send your kid there?
I wouldn’t. Which is probably why the Feds initially sat on the list of colleges on restricted status. If enough parents and prospective students use the list as a warning, it could become a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. Read more...

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6 avril 2015

BookBub

By Joshua Kim. Do you think we are living through a golden age of books? Or does the dominance of Amazon in digital books, with Kindle and Audible facing seemingly little competition in e-books and audiobooks, a development that has you deeply worried? Maybe both conclusions are justified. Read more...

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