By . Remember how, in 2012, tuition in England rose by about $10,000-$12,000 (depending on the currency exchange rate you care to use) for everyone, all at once? Remember how the increase was only offset by an increase in loans, with no increase in means-tested grants? Remember how everyone said how awful this was going to be for access?
Well, let me show you some interesting data. More...
University academics multitask. Broadly, our time is split between research, teaching and administrative duties. We differ in our aptitudes for each of these. Respective levels of intrinsic motivation vary greatly too. Institutions striving for the Humboldtian ideal of research-led teaching, that magic fusion between the latest ideas and student learning, may seek to nurture our skills and enthusiasms in every domain in order to make well-rounded scholars of us all. More...
On Thursday, 3rd September 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute publishes Keeping up with the Germans?: A comparison of student funding, internationalisation and research in UK and German universities (HEPI Report 77).
People in England, Wales and Northern Ireland often ask, if Germany can abolish tuition fees, why can’t we? Part of the answer is that Germany sends a lower proportion of young people to university and spends less on each one. When fees existed in some German regions between 2006 and 2015, they were small and those regions which had them were played off against those that did not. More...
By . I hope all readers of this blog in the northern hemisphere had a good break and are looking forward to a new academic year. Your focus is going to be in getting down to work on reasonably well defined tasks, such as course design, or studying for a higher degree. More...
By . This analysis of the Open University’s precedents, personalities, politics and pedagogies contextualises learners’ experiences and illuminates the change in the values of our society, our ideas about learning and our use of a variety of media. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Following the IHE piece on Essex County College’s struggles to get good outcomes from their personalized learning program in developmental math, and following my blog post on the topic, Phil and I had an interesting exchange about the topic in email with ECC’s Vice President for Planning, Research, and Assessment Doug Walercz. More...
By Phil Hill. For a large portion of our readers who deal mostly with US higher education, it could be easy to dismiss Moodle as an LMS and an idea past its prime. Market data from Edutechnica shows that since 2013 the number of adopting US institutions has hit a plateau, but the total number of students served (number of institutions using Moodle as primary LMS scaled by enrollment) has actually decreased. More...
By Phil Hill. What interesting timing. Just as I published my interview with Martin Dougiamas, I was notified that Totara LMS, a Moodle derivative aimed at the corporate learning market, has forked from Moodle and is changing its relationship with the Moodle Community. More...
Verlässliche Karriereplanung statt ein Zeitvertrag nach dem anderen: Die Regierung will Kurzzeitverträge für junge Wissenschaftler abschaffen. Schlupflöcher bleiben. Mehr.... Ein Finne bewundert die deutsche Effizienz. Bis er an der Uni die Quellen seiner Arbeit auf CD abgeben muss und einfachste Klausuren unter maximalem Zeitdruck schreibt. Mehr.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
