By Barbara Fister. I have often wondered about the way librarians use the word “library.” Sometimes we are referring to a building (“the library will be open until 2 a.m. during finals”), but more often we use it as if it’s a collective being that has agency. The library is offering a new program. The library has to cancel more journals. Read more...
By Herman Berliner. I am a long time proponent of the higher education peer review system that assures us of the quality and integrity of our educational offerings. During my career, I have been involved with multiple accreditations and have served on review committees for a number of accrediting agencies, specialized as well as regional. Read more...
By Justin Dunnavant. As graduate students, we are confronted with the daunting task of collecting, consolidating, and absorbing large amounts of information. Few universities actually take the time to train you on how do this, and as result taking notes and keeping track of them can quickly become overwhelming. There are dozens of books that discuss the importance of note taking and offer different methods and strategies to become an effective note-taker. Read more...
By Lesley McCollum. I’m writing this post in Microsoft Word. Chances are, it’s where you do a lot of your writing as well. It’s easy, convenient, familiar, and gets the job done for simple text documents. There are a lot of great features to MS Word if you want to (or have to) stick with it for your writing. If so, check out our previous post by Hanna on quick tricks for formatting in Word. Read more...
By Hanna Peacock. It often seems that formatting requirements for theses and other documents were dreamt up by someone who has never actually had to fight with word processing software. But a few quick tricks can help you conquer any formatting hurdle you’re thrown. This post will focus on formatting in Microsoft Word since that has, for better or worse, become the standard software used for word processing. Read more...
By John Warner. As long as I stay at my current institution and in my present position, this Tuesday will be my last class period teaching fiction writing as a college course[1].
In a post from August, I anticipated this moment, and in those thoughts I see myself reaching for a bright side amidst the things I foresee losing. More...
By Bryan Setser, Julie Goff and Patrick Sellers. We had the good fortune to recently attend the annual meeting of iNACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. Reflecting the organization’s focus, the panels, attendees, and hallway discussions centered on pre-college education, particularly technology-driven innovations disrupting traditional ways of teaching students and organizing curricula. More...
By Kristen Eshleman. This past spring I had the privilege of talking with Fiona Hollands, Associate Director and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She and Devayani Tirthali published a cost-benefit study of MOOC experiments that is a must-read for college administrators overseeing existing or future MOOC initiatives. More...
By Steven Mintz. “Online education” takes many different forms. It can be synchronous or asynchronous, self-paced or scheduled, video- or activity-based, free or for-fee, modularized or unchunked, and instructor- or learner-centered. An online class can be the size of a standard course, massive in scale, or somewhere in between. More...
By Alex Usher. The latest Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings were released a few weeks ago. You probably saw it linked to headlines that read, "The Rise of Asia", or some such thing. That’s probably not news; the THE has run with “rise of Asia” stories every year since 2011 when they re-did their methodology following their divorce from Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). More...
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