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4 mai 2015

Performance-Based Assessment

By Steven Mintz. If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a matter of ranking students against a rubric or their peers on the basis of a quiz, a problem set, a multiple choice or essay exam, or a report or research paper. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Digital Learning Experiences

By Steven Mintz. Textbooks evoke a great deal of ambivalence among instructors. Their expense and back-breaking heft are two sources of concern. More troubling is their tone – too often bland and tedious; their use of language – generally dreary and uninspired; and their content – frequently generic and excessively detailed. These are not books to be read for pleasure. They do not provoke, delight, or inspire. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Rent Control

By Barbara Fister. Did you hear the one about John Deere tractors? That when you pay for one, you’re not buying it, you’re licensing software that happens to come with some parts?
Unfortunately, it’s not a joke, and the same property argument is being made by automotive corporations, coffee pot makers, and manufacturers of kitty boxes. Oh, and publishers, of course. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Latin American Universities in the U-Multirank

By Ana García de Fanelli. Liz Reisberg complains about the importance stakeholders outside the academy give to one-dimensional research-oriented rankings in their eager search for the best universities in her recent blog on “Rankings and Quality”. Frank van Vught and Frank Ziegele’s responded in their blog, “A Ranking to Fit Individual Needs”, that describes a most welcome initiative – the U-Multirank—to overcome some of the flaws in the indicators and to produce more valuable information. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

A Rankings to Fit Individual Needs

By Frans van Vught and Frank Ziegele. In a blog published in Inside Higher Ed, Liz Reisberg raised the issue of “rankings and quality”. She made good points about major contradictions between traditional rankings and quality management, but left out a vital third option—a way of reconciling rankings and quality. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Overcoaching

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. We’re three weeks into the Great Soccer Coaching Experiment. If you had asked me last week how it was going, you would have gotten a very different answer than what you’re getting today. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Learning Moments, (Screen) Captured

By Heather VanMouwerik. On most campuses, the debate over whether or not technology has a place in the undergraduate classroom is over. Lectures without PowerPoint are a rarity, while Blackboard and other learning systems dominate grade reporting, syllabus distribution, and student-teacher communication. Technology won; however, the discussion over the form, format, and pedagogical role of this technology has only begun. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Parenting in Public

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. I’m a stay at home dad—two and a half days a week. The other two and a half weekdays I’m a PhD student. At my best, I’m both of these things simultaneously, but a lot of the time I feel like I have to be either one or the other. And never the twain shall meet. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

Break the Taboo: Talk with Your Peers about Money

By Emily Roberts. Traditionally, there have been certain topics that were off-limits for dinner table conversation. The prohibitions against discussing sex, politics, and religion have largely fallen away, but in many pockets of our society the money taboo persists. Over the past several years, I have fought against the money taboo among my grad school peers, and in return have experienced financial and relational benefits. Read more...

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4 mai 2015

5 Misunderstandings About Alt-Ac Salaries

By Joshua Kim. What determines how much you make? When negotiating salary in a new job, or a raise (yeah right) in an existing alt-ac gig, how should you figure out how much to ask for. Read more...

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