Inside the academy, time to ask some difficult questions
Pushing students to take Advanced Placement courses does not help anyone
However, these numbers do not tell the complete story. Approximately one-third of the enrolled students end up not taking their course’s AP test. More...
Who says libraries are dying? They are evolving into spaces for innovation
And while it is true that library budgets have been slashed, causing cuts in operating hours and branch closures, libraries are not exactly dying. In fact, libraries are evolving. More...
Forget plagiarism: there’s a new and bigger threat to academic integrity
Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else
It is a common lamentation that students are not taught to think, but there is usually an accompanying lack of clarity about exactly what that might mean. More...
Student loan debt: America’s next big crisis
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released its latest Report on Household Debt and Credit Developments, and the news isn’t good for student-borrowers. As of the second calendar quarter ending June 30, seriously delinquent student loans (which the FRBNY describes as those whose payments are 90 or more days past due), increased to 11.5% of the $1.19 trillion dollars’ worth of education loans, versus 11.1% in the first quarter. More...
Who hacked Rutgers? University spending up to $3M to stop next cyber attack
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The identity of the hacker or hackers who crippled Rutgers University computer networks at least four times during the last school year is still a mystery. More...
UC MERCED EXPANSION DELAYED BY BUDGET CUTS, ONLINE CLASSES
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A decade has passed since America’s newest research university opened amid farmland in central California. And surprisingly little on the landscape has changed. More...
Stanford PERTS Intros Mindset Kits for Educators
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Stanford University’s Project for Education Research that Scales (PERTS) has launched a set of free online resources, dubbed the Mindset Kit, designed to help educators and parents understand how to help students develop learning mindsets. More...