Rebecca Dyer highlights the growing movement to divest from gun manufacturers.
TIAA-CREF, the largest provider of retirement funds for employees of academic institutions, often emphasizes its good works to appeal to its socially conscious customers. More...
Facebook’s Professor Problem
The social media platform is using academic pedigrees to whitewash unethical practices, Mark Bartholomew writes. More...
German Apprenticeships: Made for America
The German apprenticeship model offers many valuable lessons but must be adapted to be successful in the U.S., writes Thomas Lichtenberger. More...
Creating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculties
We must change hiring practices to produce racially and ethnically diverse faculties, argues Estela Mara Bensimon. More...
Inflategate? After losing its #1 U.S. News ranking, Temple’s online MBA program faces many challenges
Techno-News Blog. After scaling the heights, Temple’s online MBA program has hit a low point: The school topped U.S. News’ rankings for four straight years but then was completely dropped from the magazine’s prestigious national rankings this year for misrepresenting its data. More...
What video games can teach educators about student engagement
Techno-News Blog. Teachers have long competed with video games when it comes to maintaining the focus of their students. Children are more likely to head home at the end of a long day and zone out in front of a mindless video game than they are to complete another math worksheet. More...
If you want to understand Blockchain, try to understand Switzerland
Techno-News Blog. In our latest guest post from Jeremy Epstein, he takes a high-level view of Switzerland’s decentralized governance model, which gives us a sneak peek into what blockchain-based governance may enable at global scale. Ethereum is the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, with a total market cap of $75 billion dollars. More...
The Third Education Revolution
Techno-News Blog. The world of work is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Information Age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident. More...
A lifeline to learning: Leveraging technology to support education for refugees
Techno-News Blog. The issue of provision of education and related services for refugees is complex and multifaceted. With a record number of 65 million individuals who were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2016, the magnitude of the refugee and displacement crises is unprecedented (UNHCR, 2017). Particularly alarming is that children make up more than half of the 22.5 million refugees, i.e. those individuals who fled their countries to seek protection elsewhere. More...
IoT Has Arrived (Just Not in the Way You Expected)
Techno-News Blog. Forget about sensors everywhere. The Internet of Things is really about networked devices making our lives easier. More...