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16 mars 2014

Mid-Semester Evaluations

By Laura B. McGrath. This week marked (what I hope will be) a turn toward spring in West Michigan. I can leave my parka at home, I can see some grass peeking up timidly from the mountains of snow/salt/mud, and I can hear birds nesting outside my window. This is really great: I was feeling stuck in a snow-covered rut in my research, my work, my teaching. Last week, Liz offered some great suggestions on how to re-invent your teaching at mid-semester and beat the mid-semester slump. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Speed Reading for Busy Grads

By Ashley Sanders. I have always been frustrated by my glacial reading pace and thought it was just something I’d have to live with. I tried to hide my envy when friends and colleagues spoke of reading a book in a day or even just a few hours. I just assumed they had been born with a gift for fast reading. I had no idea what subvocalization was or that it impacted one’s reading speed--until I began running across little hints in articles and seeing applications to train the eyes to move more quickly. I thought I was crazy when I began talking about the mechanics of reading with family members.
For more on why we read slowly and additional tips and tricks see: “Speed Reading” - by MindTools and “A Novel in 90 Minutes” on the new Spritz app. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Augmentation and Support

By Joshua Kim. “The vast majority of talk about education and technology, at least publicly, is about disruption and "innovation," rather than support and augmentation”.
The above quote by John Warner, writing in response to my thinking on the debate between techno-utopians and techno-skeptics, helps puts much of our discussions on this topic into perspective. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Why the Academic Library Should Lead Higher Ed Change

By Joshua Kim. The challenge that we face in higher education is how do we change while simultaneously preserving our most closely held values.
How do we increase postsecondary productivity while guarding against commodification?
How do we increase quality while increasing access?
How do we leverage technologies without sacrificing the human element essential for authentic learning?
The academic library, and academic librarians, may be in the best position to answer these questions. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Flipping Faculty Discussions with e-Literate TV?

By Joshua Kim. The latest episode of e-Literate TV features a terrific discussion with Phil and Vanessa Perry, Chair and Associate Professor of Marketing at George Washington University, on her experience with working with a team to flip her teaching.
I’m thinking that this episode would be a great tool to get some discussion going on flipped classes and new models of course design on my campus. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Applying for Faculty Jobs at Community Colleges

By Matt Reed. Mark Connelly posted a well-meaning, but somewhat off-key, column offering advice to candidates for full-time faculty positions at community colleges. I’ll assume good faith and ascribe some of the stranger elements of the piece (teaching licenses? really?) to regional or state differences, and instead offer advice based on what I’ve seen on this side of the hiring table in the Northeast. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Students Not All the Same, Study Finds

By Matt Reed. It’s lovely when you get scholarly backing for something you already knew. Along those lines, I was happy to see this report by Erin Dunlop Velez, of the American Institutes of Research. She looked at graduation rates and dropout rates across various student populations and institutional types, and she found that… brace yourself. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Thoughts on 'What Excellent Community Colleges Do'

By Matt Reed. Plato suggested that to know the good is to do the good, which is why I’m not a Platonist. Knowing something and doing it are very different propositions. That’s why I could finish a very good book about ways that community colleges can be more successful at what they do, nodding along contentedly as I read, and still come away feeling like something was missing. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Report Calls for Greater Oversight of Optional Practical Training Program

A report released Friday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified a need for greater oversight of the optional practical training program (OPT), which allows international students to stay in the U.S. and work for between 12 to 29 months after completion of their programs. The report found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, does not maintain complete records on which international students are actively working and whether they are working in their fields of study, as required by ICE regulations. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Oracle to Launch Cloud-Based Student Information System

The software giant Oracle on Sunday announced it will develop a new student information system with a focus on mobile and social features, and provide it as software-as-service.
"No other company on the planet can draw on the rich portfolio of IP, development talent, deployment and implementation experience, and industry expertise than Oracle," Cole Clark, Oracle's global vice president for education and research, said in a blog post. Read more...

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