By Steven Mintz. With a number of leading for-profits beset by legal and financial woes, enrollment in online education leveling off, and MOOCs off the front pages, one might reasonably conclude that the threats to higher ed posed by what was hailed as “disruptive innovation” have abated. More...
By Jonathan Haber. As the Inaugural Visiting Fellow at HarvardX, my mission over the six months while “embedded” with the HX team involves exploring how to maximize the effectiveness of assessments and other student assignments within Harvard’s growing catalog of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). More...
By Matt Reed. In a recent exchange with one of my favorite higher education peeps, I realized that I’ve been stubbing my toe on the same issue for years now. I’m hoping that some very smart readers have found an elegant way around it, the better to spare my theoretical feet. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Most campus-based colleges have some form of a “student activities” or “student life” office. That office runs a slate of programs for students, ranging from co-curricular to extracurricular to just-for-fun. (Rule of thumb: the office that runs “Spring Fling” is Student Life.) The idea is to help students blow off steam, connect with each other, connect with the college, and engage more with the world. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Travel funding is even harder to come by these days than it used to be. In the community college world, that’s saying something. I mention it in light of this piece in the Chronicle about the Aspen Institute’s recommendations for search committees looking for community college presidents. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. I have been rethinking my policy towards participation in class. My policy has always stated that students need to find some way to add to the class discussion. I tell them that they should plan to speak at least once during class. When I observe other faculty teaching, I look for the level and quality of participation in their classes. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I made myself a “reverse bucket list” promise to survive my struggle with a brain tumor because I wanted to live to get married and have children, I doubt I even knew what a “book rep” was. I had only taught a few days, and I had not yet met any. Still, over almost four years later, that is exactly who I married. A kind, good man came to sell me books, and ended up, as he (now a lawyer) likes to joke, with a “life sentence.” I remember learning much about the textbook publishing industry in those days, and was surprised that he was honestly mystified as to why professors did not want to switch books every semester to try out new ones that were promised to be better than the ones currently used. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. Last week's post about emerging career possibilities for student affairs professionals was a thought piece about future gigs for future practitioners. A comment on the post about how good it would be when Coursera started hiring student affairs folk prompted me to do a quick search around the web for jobs that might not fit the traditional pathways for student affairs. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. How many years have you been coming to EDUCAUSE? I was trying to figure it out, and I think I must be somewhere between 10 and 14 conferences. Is that possible?
What advice would you have for first-time EDUCAUSE attendees?
I think you will get similar advice from lots of us. We will tell you that there is too much to see - and that it is necessary to pick your sessions carefully. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I had one of the weird out-of-body experiences while walking around the vendor floor at EDUCAUSE today. My mind flash-forwarded to 2020. The booths were bigger and fancier. The technologies on display were more powerful and flexible. The state of the art for learning analytics and adaptive learning platforms had improved exponentially. Read more...
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