One of the lesser-spotted facts in yesterday’s announcements about the new higher education funding review was the Government’s intention to ensure more ‘commuter degrees‘. More...
2 mars 2018
2 mars 2018
Higher Education in Brexit Britain: A changing future for international students in the UK?
Since the people of the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU) on 23 June 2016, the UK Government has been busy negotiating the path towards Brexit. For UK higher education institutions, the prospect of Brexit raises a number of as yet unanswered questions. More...
2 mars 2018
The hallmarks of a successful university
As we stand at the start of 2018, there can be no doubt that we are not just entering a new year but also a new era for higher education policy, in which the student experience is becoming central to conceptions of what constitutes a ‘successful’ university. More...
2 mars 2018
What’s the role of academics in supporting students’ mental health?
The Higher Education Policy Institute and Kaplan International Pathways are jointly publishing a major new piece of research, The costs and benefits of international students by parliamentary constituency, undertaken by London Economics. More...
2 mars 2018
The Purgatory of Ed Tech Transformation Initiatives
By Phil Hill. Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed wrote an excellent article describing the trajectory and demise of the "failed $75 million experiment" of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning (ITL). More...
2 mars 2018
Visibility As A Benefit: Ole Miss and UCF share their stories on courseware usage
By Phil Hill. In an article Michael and I wrote for EDUCAUSE Review in 2016, we described our view of personalized learning as "a family of teaching practices that are intended to help reach students in the metaphorical back row". One of the key practices focused on gaining increased visibility into student coursework. More...
2 mars 2018
An Alternative to the Engineering Model of Personalized Learning
By Phil Hill. There is an article in EdWeek that quotes Larry Berger, CEO of Amplify, in his "confession" about personalized learning. More...
2 mars 2018
Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day
By Phil Hill. This bill was a disaster in the making. Not only would it have been unworkable in terms of funding and intellectual property ownership, it would also have set back the OER movement by associating OER with unfunded faculty mandates and reduction of academic freedom. All this from good intentions but apparently shallow understanding. More...
2 mars 2018
Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses
By Phil Hill. Thanks for update from Brent Auernheimer, I found out that the Hawai'i Senate Committee on Higher Education recently debated a bill regarding Open Educational Resources (OER) usage at the University of Hawai'i system of 10 campuses. More...
2 mars 2018
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
By Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein. Let's be honest: as an academic term of art, personalized learning is horrible. It has almost no descriptive value. What does it mean to "personalize" learning? Isn't learning, which is done by individual learners, inherently personal? What would it mean to personalize learning? And who would want unpersonalized learning. More...
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