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4 mai 2013

Taking the Time to Learn

By Eric Stoller. Consulting is oftentimes an exercise in troubleshooting or problem solving. Schools bring me in to talk about social media, strategic communications, and/or digital identity. That's the initial premise and while I end up covering the things that I'm "supposed to," there's more to it. Organizational change takes center stage. Divisions and departments don't always recognize it, but they are actually hiring me to assist in working through how they create change. One of the most consistent aspects in my work is the concept of time allocation. Everyone wants to jump in and implement social media tactics and while that is admirable, that is not step one. The beginning task for most people, the part that is the most difficult, is the act of carving out enough time to become fluent at whatever it is they want to do. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Unleashing Mass Access -- Tallying Collateral Losses

By Damtew Teferra. At a conference this month to honor the work of Philip G. Altbach, a number of regional and international issues of the field were presented by world’s leaders in international higher education. It became clear that the issues that confront different regions of the world are basically similar from access to funding, from quality to unemployment. This editorial is prompted by this dialogue and focuses on the opportunities and ramifications of expanding access to higher education in Africa.
The Growth—and the Gains
The unprecedented expansion of the higher education system in Africa is often described as “massive” Still, the enrollment rate hovers around 5-6 percent. Martin Trow’s taxonomy of higher education recognizes three stages— elite, massive and universal. Africa, with a single-digit enrollment rate uncomfortably sits on the “elite” landscape—far removed from mass access and light years away from universal access. Africa has many mountains yet to climb to move beyond elite. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

ABC’s and PhD’s: Comics

By Dana Campbell. I opened my email account yesterday to find a note from my library: 25 items I had requested were being held for me at our local branch (?!?) I thought it was a mistake until I realized that the notice was actually regarding my younger daughter’s library account (for which my email is the correspondence address). She had evidently figured out the online library system and reserved all the “Baby Blues” comic strip books she could find. The library has an impressive number, as it turns out.
Baby Blues, a syndicated newspaper strip about life in a family with three young energetic children and two exhausted parents, has been my daughter’s obsession for a long time now. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

A Third Place for Faculty

By Barbara Fister. We’ve come a long, long way since Scott Carlson kicked off a firestorm of defensiveness and soul-searching with a 2001 feature in the Chronicle titled “The Deserted Library” (subscription required). In the ensuing years there has been so much chatter about “the library as place” that the idea of designing libraries for learning rather than for storing and accessing collections is no longer radical; libraries clearly are places for learning and library spaces should be designed accordingly. Granted some faculty aren’t thrilled with challenges to the dominance of the stacks, and many libraries have some way to go in making their libraries attractive and effective sites for student learning, but nobody thinks it’s a crazy idea. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

The Secrets within the Ivy: The Continuation of White Supremacy

By Dr. Terence Fitzgerald. Upon recently reading the New York Times op-ed piece by Ross Douthat, The Secrets of Princeton, I am reminded of Dr. Joe Feagin’s words:
White racism today remains “‘normal’” and deeply imbedded in most historically white institutions. Every such institution is still substantially whitewashed in its important norms, rules, and arrangements…it seems likely that a majority of whites cannot see just how whitewashed their historically white organizations and institutions really are.
The editorial piece discusses a recent submission from guest contributor of The Daily Princetonian and Princeton alumna, Susan Patton, who controversially declared that the women of Princeton should, “Find a husband on campus before you graduate.” She goes on to say:
I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone. My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless… As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again — you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Massive On-Line Open Course (MOOC)-Based Higher Education Is A Class-Warfare Scam

By Comradde PhysioProffe. Neuro Polar Bear has a post up today mildly criticizing Tom “Suck This” Friedman’s pollyanna column about how MOOC-based higher education is going to “revolutionize” the higher education system. Here is everything you need to know about MOOC-based education:
The goal of the MOOC (should be “mook”, cause it is designed by the plutocrats for the mooks) frenzy is twofold. First, it is to commoditize higher education, and allow big for-profit corporations to sink their blood funnels into the massive tuition/fees artery. Second, it is to provide cheaper, more uniform higher education to the proles, preparing them for life as corporate drones. The children of the wealthy will never, ever be subject to MOOC-based education, and the elite institutions they attend–who are perfectly happy to publish some courses on-line for free viewing by the public–will never, ever allow their students to take MOOCs for course credit. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Four more universities join Futurelearn

By Chris Parr. Four more universities have announced plans to offer massive open online courses via the UK-based Futurelearn platform, taking the total number of higher education institutions involved to 21. Loughborough University and the universities of Sheffield, Glasgow and Strathclyde are the latest to partner with the Open University-owned company, which is due to start offering courses from affiliated universities, free of charge, later this year. In addition, the British Museum has signed up to work with Futurelearn, following the lead of the British Library, which partnered with the Mooc provider in February, and the British Council. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Tuition fees: a human rights issue

Geraldine Van Bueren says international law could help opponents of rising tuition costs in their battle. The argument that economic pressures do not oblige those in power to increase tuition fees fell on deaf ears when legislation was passing through Parliament several years ago. Opponents of £9,000 fees have an opportunity to revive it, however, using international law - and the government may find it more difficult to ignore their case if it is focused through this lens. What does international law tell us about setting tuition fees? First, that it is not true that British governments are free to set the level of university fees constrained only by the market. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

THE Global Gender Index

By Jack Grove. Glass ceiling remains in place for female academics. Jack Grove reports. As a grocer’s daughter who rose to become Britain’s first female prime minister, she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.”
Barack Obama’s eloquent tribute to the late Baroness Thatcher may have struck a hopeful note, but sadly the glass ceiling remains frustratingly unbroken in academia and elsewhere. An analysis by Thomson Reuters in association with Times Higher Education shows startling levels of gender inequality in research-intensive universities across the world. The gap persists not just in emerging nations but also in some of the world’s most highly developed countries - where the fight for women’s rights and equality has gone on for decades. Click to download and view the full results. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Is the internet making universities defunct?

By Saad Rizvi and Katelyn Donnelly. The model of higher education that marched triumphantly across the globe in the second half of the 20th century is broken. Thanks to advances in technology and connectivity, all the key elements of a traditional university – the curriculum (what you learn), the teaching (how you learn), the assessment (how you demonstrate what you’ve learned) and the experience (everything you learn outside the classroom) – are available in various corners of the web.
They no longer need to be located together in one, bricks-and-mortar place. Read more...

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