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Colleges borrowing great sums from students are focusing on prettying and branding the campus to reflect the commodification of the “college experience,” a vicious cycle resulting in greater student debt. No comment yet.
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It’s time for the criticism to stop. Whatever you think about the changes to higher education that have been made in recent years, in particular the decision in the autumn of 2010 largely to replace public funding of teaching with student fees,...
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Timothy Garton Ash: The prime minister's careless immigration pledge is putting off some of our brightest visitors – and damaging Britain
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This is my part of a collaborative presentation on the history of advising and counseling for the Sp2006 section of CC620 from Northern Arizona University. M...
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February 14, 2014 11:58 AM
Scooped from my Slideshare by my friend dirkvl. Thanks Dirk!
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Some thoughts on how academics can use social media to enhance their profile
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Over the past 15 years, reiterated across successive governments, the concept of value for money has been internalised throughout the higher education sector. Joanna Williams outlines the reasons w...
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Diana Laurillard explains why a model based on unsupervised learning is not the answer
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The internet was all aflutter last week because Elsevier has sent thousands of take-down notices to Academia.edu, a social networking site where many researcher
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Join the discussion with Fast Company writer Max Chafkin and Udacity's Sebastian Thrun on Tuesday, December 3rd at 3pm (ET). Thrun will be answering your questions--submit them now using the "Make a comment" box below!
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The Politics of Citation -- guest post by Lisa Herzog - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
(This post is the result of a facebook debate started by Eric Schliesser) Given that what we are doing in philosophy might be footnotes to Plato all the way down, citation practices might not seem worth further discussion (that would be footnotes...
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March 23, 2014 9:21 AM
How do you inspire meaningful learning in Higher Education in the midst of a culture where there's "layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination..."? Chomsky shows some startling connections useful for learning.
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Treating professionals as stewards of their disciplines and setting clear goals can contribute to effective performance
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Diane Reay, University of Cambridge For the first decade of the 2000s I was a member of FAAB - Feminists against Academic Bollocks. We wrote satirical sketches, sang and danced, tried to embody inn...
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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have come a long way in the last two years. To help put them into some perspective, a handy infographic.
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The journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens, argues Jason Priem.
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The traditional forms of scientific publishing and peer review do not live up to the demands of efficient communication and quality assurance in today’s highly diverse and rapidly evolving world of science.
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see also in relationship to recent developments in the UK where some universities apparently turn to the bond market to raise funds....