Fair Use and MOOCs
By Francesca Giannetti and David Hunter. As Fair Use Week begins, Francesca Giannetti and David Hunter considers the use of readily and legally available digital media for MOOCs.
Their experience stems from assisting a University of Texas professor with an online jazz appreciation course. More...
To Resubmit or Not To Resubmit?
By Lesley McCollum. Around this time a few years ago, I was patiently waiting for any news. Ok, by “patiently waiting,” I really mean “obsessively checking the status of my application online.” For the most recent wave of F31 NRSA submissions—as I’m sure the applicants are well aware—review committees are beginning to meet to discuss and score those applications. Read more...
Second Call: GradHacker Seeks New Authors
By GradHacker. A reminder that GradHacker is now accepting applications from grad students who would like to join our team. We are looking to add to our roster in these two categories:
- Permanent Authors contribute at least one post a month on a topic relevant to graduate students. Read more...
Will Professors Teach Differently in 10 Years?
By Marcelo Knobel. Unfortunately, my guess is that the answer to this question is a sound “NO”. Despite continuous claims of a revolution in classroom teaching strategies, the advent of massive on-line open courses, and the huge expansion in the use of technological devices (cell phone, computers, tablets, etc), in most higher education institutions (HEIs) around the world traditional lecturing endures. It will probably continue this way for many years to come, because to do otherwise requires a change of paradigm for hundreds of thousands of instructors, HEIs tradition and culture, and every aspect of institutional operation (research grants, hiring and promotion processes, etc). Read more...
A Moment From the Daddy/Daughter Dance
By Matt Reed. The Agawam Daddy/Daughter dance was last night. The Girl and I attended, as we have for the last several years.
She’s ten now. Read more...
OER as Retention Initiative
By Matt Reed. “Free community college” would require major legal and financial changes, as well as some unusually farsighted political leadership. Free textbooks just require a little ingenuity. We can do this. Read more...
Make‘em Pay?
By Matt Reed. Community college folk often complain, when getting blamed for high remediation rates, that what’s really being measured is the performance of the local high schools. A state senator in Tennessee is proposing to base budgets on that. Read more...
Corporate Governance and Shared Governance
By Matt Reed. This should be a much bigger story.
IHE ran a story by Ry Rivard that should have set sociologists and economists running wild. It’s about several non-profit colleges, including one community college, that have made policy changes affecting students at the behest of bondholders. Read more...
Trying to Understand Alt-Acs
By Joshua Kim. The modern campus contains many more non-faculty educators than at anytime in the past. These are staff members who work directly on mission related, teaching and research, activities. Alt-academics will often partner with faculty on teaching and research tasks, tasks that were previously done by faculty alone. Read more...