By Liz Reisberg. In the past couple of months I have attended two conferences on internationalization strategy, one in Colombia and the other in México. In Colombia the Ministry of Education is including internationalization as something to be considered in the accreditation process. Read more...
By Steven Mintz. If you are like me, many of your most intense and meaningful learning experiences have taken place one-on-one: Not with an instructor, but, rather, engaging with a primary source or a book or an artwork or undertaking a research project. Conversely, many moments of utter boredom occurred in a classroom, amid the prattling of an instructor or classmates. Read more...By Steven Mintz. Academics weren’t always called professors. By Akiba Covitz. It will come as no surprise to anyone reading this that a dividing line continues to exist between faculty members when it comes to MOOCs in particular and to online teaching in general. Read more...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette.“I hate science so much, Mom.” By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A conference is a strange, liminal moment: you leave your normal life behind for a concentrated experience that is both closely tied and completely disconnected from said normal life. The experience itself is at once invigorating and draining, both feeding you and feeding off you. Read more...By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I’ve told this story elsewhere, but when I was doing peer-driven learning, I was told by a supportive friend not to let any of the senior faculty know what I was doing in my classroom because they would have put a stop to it. My position was a precarious one; as an instructor, I was on an annual contract that could be terminated at the end of any contract year. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. The EU Court of Justice recently issued a landmark ruling in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner. The decision in this case invalidated the Safe Harbor agreement that allowed the U.S. to handle personally identifiable information (PII) of EU citizens under less robust rules and practices than the EU requires. Now, any entity that holds PII of EU citizens must treat that information according to EU data protection law or face legal action in the EU that would jeopardize assets of US companies in the EU. As was demonstrated almost 20 years ago by the Yahoo v. France case, when faced with the potential loss of assets or reduction in the size of markets, even Internet giants take notice. The implication of this decision does not rest with US industry alone, however. It affects higher education, and higher education should embrace the Schrems decision with enthusiasm. This decision presents an opportunity to demonstrate the importance of privacy principles and practices for higher education’s missions. It provides higher education leaders a mantle upon which they can demonstrate how higher education’s missions uphold citizenship and democracy in the United States. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. On May 1, 2001 I walked with Cornell University’s security coordinator over to the Law School to discuss with the director of Legal Information Institute and its network administrator a server breach. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. October 14 is World Standards Day. Noting the European tilt, even in the British spelling of the word “honours,” of the Wikipedia article about it, I am not surprised that few Americans are aware of this day or movement. After all, we are still using antiquated concepts of pounds and feet. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
