Scott McLemee reviews Glenn A. Albrecht's Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World. More...
The Wealth of Networks
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yochai Benkler[Edit][Delete]: The Wealth of Networks, Yale University Press [Edit][Delete] May 10, 2006
This came out while I was gone and attracted a wide readership. It's a long read, but worth the while. This, for example, echoes my own thoughts: "The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of individuals along three dimensions: (1) it improves their capacity to do more for and by themselves; (2) it enhances their capacity to do more in loose commonality with others, without being constrained to organize their relationship through a price system or in traditional hierarchical models of social and economic organization; and (3) it improves the capacity of individuals to do more in formal organizations that operate outside the market sphere". More...
« L’enseignement supérieur français, acteur mondial »
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. Accords internationaux, séjours d’échanges académiques, doubles diplômes, professeurs et étudiants venus du monde entier, campus à l’étranger, l’enseignement supérieur français a largement investi le champ international. Promu par Audencia BS et Neoma BS, réalisé par le cabinet HEADway Advisory, le Livre blanc « L’enseignement supérieur français, acteur mondial » lui est consacré. Plus...
Lecture : les étudiants continuent à privilégier le papier
S’il a été démontré que la lecture sur papier s’accompagne d’une meilleure compréhension et d’une meilleure mémorisation des informations contenues dans ces textes documentaires, il reste à savoir quelles sont les préférences personnelles en termes de supports de lecture d’une génération plongée dans le tourbillon des technologies. Plus...
Pourquoi les livres papier n’ont-ils pas disparu ?
À l’heure du tout numérique, la résistance du livre sous sa forme imprimée peut surprendre. Pourtant cette persistance de l’écrit sur du papier s’explique.
Quand on parle de livre, encore faut-il préciser de quel type de livre. Plus...
‘The Educated Underclass’
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students. More...
‘The College Completion Glass -- Half-Full or Half-Empty?’
By Scott Jaschik. To many students, parents, taxpayers and politicians, a key way to measure colleges' success is their graduation rates. A new book, The College Completion Glass -- Half-Full or Half-Empty? (Rowman and Littlefield), challenges much of the way college completion is talked about. More...
‘Cracks in the Ivory Tower’
By Scott Jaschik. A new book about higher education spares no players in academe today. The book criticizes administrators as wasteful, professors as more concerned about their own disciplines than student needs and students for cheating. More...
Sunspots and Poetry
Scott McLemee reviews Tracy Daugherty's Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens. More...