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3 novembre 2014

German students focused on success, shun politics

By Michael Gardner. Students in Germany appear to be chiefly concerned with their careers and show little interest in political issues, according to a survey supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, or BMBF. Also, they seem happy with the outcome of the Bologna reforms. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

Europe must back research rhetoric with action – EUA

On 31 October the European University Association, or EUA, issued a statement expressing deep concern about cuts to research and innovation funding – including the Horizon 2020 framework – proposed by the Council of the European Union. If implemented, said the EUA, the cuts would not only jeopardise universities but also economic growth and job creation. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

New community-university engagement network formed

By Esther Nakkazi. A new higher education network has been launched to support partnerships and relationships around community-university engagement and community-based research in East African countries – Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more...

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3 novembre 2014

New global university ranking puts Germany second to US

By Brendan O'Malley. United States universities continue to dominate the top 500 in a new global university ranking launched by leading American education publisher US News & World Report. But German universities have outperformed their United Kingdom counterparts.
The US has 134 universities in the top 500, followed by Germany with 42 and the UK with 38. China has a strong showing with 27 institutions in the Best Global Universities ranking launched on 28 October. Read more...

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2 novembre 2014

Making screencasts: The pedagogical framework

By Robert Talbert. Last week I was honored to be part of the MOOC on An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching that’s currently being offered by Vanderbilt University through Coursera. Derek Bruff (who did a 4+1 interview for us last year) is one of the lead instructors of the MOOC, and he asked me to contribute three videos about my use of screencasting and lecture as part of the flipped classroom. More...

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2 novembre 2014

Beyond books… thinking about the “living tradition” and the “virtual research environment” of scholarly discourse

By Brian Mathews. I met with a group of students earlier this month and the topic of eBooks came up. They unanimously expressed a preference for print. I was curious. What I found was that none of them had read a book on an eBook Reader. More...

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2 novembre 2014

In Praise of ‘Paper Space’

By Douglas Groothuis. In the old school, a professor graded a student’s paper or essay test in what I call paper-space. That is, the student wrote and printed out an embodied object containing his work, complete (the professor hoped) with page numbers, staple, and a title page on which the student should have, at minimum, spelled the professor’s name correctly—something I cannot assume. More...

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2 novembre 2014

Untethering in the Classroom

By Amy Cavender. I hate being tethered to the podium computer in my classroom. Seriously. I have a strong preference for being able to move about the room, but I also frequently need to use the projector, which is connected to — you guessed it — the podium in the front of the room. There’s really no simple way around this. More...

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2 novembre 2014

MooT Pursuits

By Lucy Ferriss. I have a soft spot for people who invent games, especially games with words. And by way of some random keystroke, I found myself on the mailing list of Jon Steeves, inventor of MooT, “the game of semantics, etymology, and grammar.” More...

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2 novembre 2014

Professor Pinker and Professor Strunk

By Geoffrey Pullum. The voice on BBC radio was that of Professor Steven Pinker, fluent and engaging as ever. But my blood froze as I listened to what he said. More...

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