Selon un rapport du Sénat récent, les démissions d'enseignants ont doublé en 4 ans. Toujours en poste ou sur le point de partir, plusieurs profs nous livrent leur témoignage. Voir l'article...
Les 10 fondamentaux de l’enseignement en ligne pour le personnel enseignant et de formation
By . Ces guides visent à examiner quelques idées fausses et mythes très répandus au sujet de l’apprentissage en ligne et de l’enseignement en ligne, et en particulier, à vous aider à prendre des décisions quant à vous engager ou non dans l’apprentissage en ligne et, dans l’affirmative, à indiquer ce dont vous avez besoin pour savoir comment bien le faire. En fait, je suggère en certains endroits quelques circonstances où il vaut mieux pour vous de ne pas l’entreprendre….Entretemps, j’espère que ces guides vous seront utiles pour décider de vous engager ou non dans l’enseignement en ligne ou comment l’aborder. Voir l'article...
Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Athabasca University?
By . I’ve written several times before about the troubles at Athabasca University, which bills itself as Canada’s open university (for a full list of my posts on AU and its troubles, see the end of this post). Most of my posts have been bleak about AU’s future because the news coming out of Alberta about the university was so bad. More...
Latin American version of 10 Fundamentals of Teaching Online now available
By . Professor Selin Carrasco, of la Universidad de la Punta in San Luis, Argentina, has developed a Latin American version (in Spanish, of course) of the 10 Fundamentals of Teaching Online for Faculty and Instructors, originally published in English by Contact North. More...
Call for participants: summer school in St. Petersburg – “Higher education and social inequality”
By Hedda. The Institute of Education at National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow), China Institute for Educational Finance Research and Graduate School of Education at Peking University invite earlier career researchers and doctoral students to apply to the upcoming 5th International Summer School on higher education research that takes place June 10-16, 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The theme of this year is “Higher education and social inequality”. See more...
Tips for a PhD defense or viva #phd
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. It is with quite some pleasure that I was awarded the PhD in Educational Technologies last week.
The UK version of a PhD defense is called a Viva, which resembles a closed oral examination (open book) with one external examiner (connected to another University than the one you are at) and an internal examiner (affiliated to your own University, but with whom nor yourself, nor your supervisors have co-authored a paper – so not closely professionally related). Read more...
Recreating the American Dream: Wealth Creation for the 21st Century
On the first day of the first full working week for President Trump (Monday, 23 January), the Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing a lecture by Martha Kanter, who was President Obama’s Under Secretary of Education throughout his first term in office. Dr Kanter delivered the HEPI Annual Lecture on 8 December 2016, but it has not been published in any form before and is now appearing in an updated version. More...
Personal Learning Accounts for all: More choice, better skills, more success
Expanding the choice of high-quality options for adult students – and their employers – is essential if we are to raise UK skill levels. With opportunities when they need them throughout their lives, people can regularly develop their careers and businesses can regularly adapt to new challenges. More...
Universities could lose students while gaining financially from Brexit
Universities could lose students while gaining financially from Brexit, but any new restrictions on international students could cost the UK economy an additional £2 billion a year
The research, published as The determinants of international demand for UK higher education and undertaken by London Economics, reveals a mixed picture. Some changes (e.g. higher fees for EU students) would reduce demand. Others (e.g. depreciation of sterling) would increase demand by reducing the price of studying in the UK for those from other countries. More...
Don’t let the Home Office stand in the way of good policy
One of the central arguments for the Higher Education and Research Bill – currently at Committee Stage in the House of Lords – is that the Bill will open up a ‘closed shop’ to competition. It is believed that the higher education sector is run for the benefit of universities rather than students and the general public. More...