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2 janvier 2013

Looking Ahead: 5 International Trends for 2013

By Jason Lane and Kevin Kinser. In honor of the New Year, we wanted to put forward five trends that we think will affect international branch campuses in 2013. As is always the case with predictions, we run the risk of being completely wrong. A year from now we will revisit this list to see how we did. In the meantime, feel free to add your own predictions—and critiques—in the comments. And we wish everyone a very happy 2013!
Greater push-back from home campuses. By and large, the development of overseas campuses has been led by senior administrators who jumped into the efforts with limited consultation. Until lately, there has been very little push-back from faculty and others, but we believe this is about to change. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

Tests With and Without Motivation

By Scott Jaschik. As colleges have faced increasing pressure in recent years to demonstrate that students learn something while enrolled, many have turned to tests of learning outcomes, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment. In that test -- and popular alternatives from ACT and the Educational Testing Service -- small groups of entering and graduating students are tested on their critical thinking and other skills. In theory, comparing the scores of new and graduating students yields evidence either that students are or are not learning. Many call the difference between the entering and graduating students' performance the "value added" by a college degree. These test results may be high-stakes for colleges, many of which need to show accreditors and others that they are measuring student learning. But for the students taking the exams, the tests tend to be low stakes -- no one must pass or achieve a certain score to graduate, gain honors or to do pretty much anything. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012

By Jeffrey R. Young. Articles about how free online courses, or MOOCs, could disrupt higher education dominated the headlines last year here at the Wired Campus blog, and they were the most popular with readers as well. Several articles about e-textbooks also topped our list of most-read articles of 2012, highlighting what has been a time of change, and anxiety, for colleges and universities...
Here are the 10 top Wired Campus stories:
1. Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
2. Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
3. Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law
4. Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College
5. Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics
6. Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities
7. 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
8. Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features
9. Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits
10. Udacity Cancels Free Online Math Course, Citing Low Quality. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

The Social Edition

By Scott McLemee. A scholar committed to the digital humanities once summed up his long-term strategy for winning their acceptance with a terse, sardonic comment. “We will advance,” he said, “funeral by funeral.” It's the kind of sentiment that's often felt, but seldom so well expressed -- or so brutally.
But assuming that time is on digital culture’s side also tempts fate. The humanities include bodies of knowledge that have developed over periods ranging from a decade to a couple of millennia and more. Digital technologies can emerge and eclipse one another in the time it takes to write a single monograph. The wisdom of reorganizing one around the other is at least questionable. A paper in the December issue of Literary & Linguistic Computing called “Toward Modeling the Social Edition: An Approach to Understanding the Electronic Scholarly Edition in the Context of New and Emerging Social Media” manages to be forward-looking but not triumphalistic. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

University application: Ucas answers your questions

With less than a month to go until the January 15 deadline, Ucas expert John Madden answers more of your questions about applying to university. As the January 15 Ucas application deadline nears, teenagers across the country are losing sleep over questions ranging from how many times you should redraft your personal statement to which universities make the earliest offers.
1. How long does it take for my welcome letter to come?
It really depends on where you're applying from. Once the application has been sent to Ucas, it can take around 24-48 hours to process. Once processed, the letter will be generated and sent. This can take two to three working days to be received if being sent in the UK, but up to 21 days if being sent overseas.
2. How much does the application cost?
The application fee is £12 for a single choice and £23 for two to five choices. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

Higher podcasts aim to take university debate to new level

By Chris Parr. An interview with former foreign secretary David Miliband is among the first podcasts now available on Times Higher Education's own podcast channel.
Available on both the THE website and via Apple's iTunes service, the podcasts feature a mix of extended interviews with academics and other figures from the world of higher education and the magazine's editorial staff discussing the biggest stories from each week's issue.
Other episodes include an extended interview with National Union of Students president Liam Burns and a discussion with University of Bedfordshire pro vice-chancellor Carsten Maple about the work of the National Centre for Cyberstalking Research. All the podcasts can be streamed or downloaded free of charge. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

Why China learns its lessons off by heart

A UK student in Guangzhou finds out why Chinese teachers are so keen on memorisation. It's 7.30am and the walk to class takes me past scores of Chinese students reciting English in preparation for a constant stream of tests and exams.
I only recently arrived to study in China, but it doesn't take long to observe that here memorisation is paramount. Remembering rather than understanding appears to be the principal goal of the education system – and that seems archaic to the Western eye. However, the Chinese believe memorising provides a route to understanding.
International studies show that Professor An Ran, dean of international education at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, explains: "Whereas Westerners see memorisation and understanding as mutually exclusive, Chinese tend to see them as related phenomena."
China's is among the most successful education systems in the world, which would seem to validate this approach. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

More private colleges holding line on tuition

By Nick Anderson. Savvy families shopping for college know that tuition typically rises faster than inflation. So Lauren Seely and her parents in Northwest Washington were startled to learn this year that an upper-tier private college on her short list had frozen its price.
Tuition and fees at Mount Holyoke — $41,456 in fall 2011 — would not rise one dollar in 2012. That helped clinch Seely’s decision last spring to enroll at the Massachusetts women’s college. The freeze reflects a growing movement to hold the line on price in higher education’s private sector, a strategy often targeting those who qualify for little or no financial aid but who worry about how to pay for college in uncertain economic times. For many families, aware that sticker prices for private schools can be at least three times higher than for public ones, these concerns are intensifying as application deadlines approach early next month. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

Student finance: five New Year spending resolutions

Between the Christmas spending spree and the wait for your student loan to appear, the New Year is a perfect time to make some financial resolutions, says David Ellis.
The New Year is a curious beast. While it leaves most buoyed with a renewed, temporary sense of purpose, for students the first days of January are characterised by two things: obsessive checking of the bank balance; and a feeling in the stomach like it’s attempting an escape through the mouth. Waiting for the student loan to appear and guiltily trying to forget that overspend (curses on that generous, present-giving streak you have) means many fall into an unauthorised overdraft – and brutal bank charges which can blight the next few months. David Ellis is editor of studentmoneysaver.co.uk. Read more...

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2 janvier 2013

Research funding: are we in danger of concentrating too hard?

A growing obsession with funding scale risks crowding out institutions and stifling innovation, suggests Zoë Molyneux.
This will be the year in which the higher education world turns its collective attention to one thing in particular: research. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) looms closer and work is beginning on party manifestos as the coalition moves into the latter half of its reign. As a result, the sector – as well as individual institutions – will be thinking hard about how best to protect their lot and to secure a well-funded research environment well into the next parliament. For institutions, this leads to questions on two different levels. First, how do we as a sector prevent a future claw-back from the research budget by the treasury in a climate where higher education is perceived to have 'done well' in recent funding announcements? Second, should the research budget avoid painful cuts, what is the most effective way to allocate funding which will support high-quality research activities? Read more...

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