By Alex Usher. A few years ago, I think around the time that HESA Towers ran a conference on internationalization, I realized there was something weird about the way Canadian higher education institutions talked about study abroad. They talked about it as helping students “bridge the gap between theory and practice”, “increasing engagement”, and “hands-on learning”. More...
By Alex Usher. In the higher education advocacy business, an unhappily large proportion of the research used is of the correlation = causation type. For instance, many claim that higher education has lots of social benefits like lower crime rates and higher rates of community volunteering on the grounds that outcomes of graduates are better than outcomes of non-graduates in these areas. More...
By Alex Usher. The Canadian numbers come from a periodic survey Universities Canada does of its members on internationalization (the last example of this is here). The last time they did the survey they found that 2.6% of students did a “for-credit” international experience, and another 0.5% did a non-credit course: total, 3.1%. More...
By Alex Usher. The UK’s Higher Education Statistics Agency (also known in these parts as “the other HESA”) put out an interesting report recently on participation in higher education in England (available here). More...
By Alex Usher. New income and expenditure data on Canadian universities came out over the summer courtesy of StatsCan and our friends over at the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO), so today it’s time to check in on what the latest financial trends. More...
By Alex Usher. So, everybody is talking about the kerfuffle at Brock: yet another presidential hire gone wrong, though this time the slamming-on-the-brakes happened before the hire actually started working, which I suppose is progress. More...
By Phil Hill. Last month Cengage Learning released a white paper titled “Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape” where the headline called out expected increases in OER adoption. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Last year I wrote a long rant about how the Gallup-Purdue survey studying the impact of higher education on wellbeing shows that our well-intentioned desire to ensure schools are providing a “quality education” is causing us to measure the wrong things in ways that deform the whole system. More...
By Michael Feldstein. I have been pretty relentless in mocking Knewton CEO Jose Ferriera for his “robot tutor in the sky” description of the company’s adaptive learning product. And I pledge to continue this proud tradition. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. More...
By Michael Feldstein. A number of people responding to the Chronicle’s article on the Elsevier patent asked me to write something about it. More...
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