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Peter Mellow
April 21, 2016 11:17 PM
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Universities don’t have to empty your wallet. Here’s why the shortage in student housing is an opportunity.
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Peter Mellow
April 20, 2016 11:59 PM
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Institutions offering online learning must translate the traditional classroom space into the online one based on what the students want and need. Students told us what that is.
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
April 19, 2016 5:17 PM
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This question originally appeared on Quora: What are the skills every 18 year old needs? Answer by Julie Lythcott-Haims, Author of NYT bestseller How to Raise an Adult; former Stanford dean; podcast host. 1. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers Faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, ban
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
April 17, 2016 9:28 PM
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Tertiary campuses are battling a spate of aggressive, online harassment of female students, including threats of death and rape.
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Peter Mellow
April 14, 2016 6:16 PM
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Scholars choose ‘essential’ texts to introduce sixth-formers to the academy
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Peter Mellow
April 13, 2016 6:50 PM
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Ask people about the value of college today, and you’ll get a bewildering mix of answers. Optimists savor a 2014 Federal Reserve study showing that people with diplomas earn $830,000 more than non-graduates over their lifetimes. Skeptics respond that it is impossible to ignore rising student debt
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Peter Mellow
April 13, 2016 6:35 PM
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Retention and graduation rates may be good indicators of a college or university's success, but they have little to do with students' personal development as connected learners and contributors to the digital commons.
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Peter Mellow
April 12, 2016 11:16 PM
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The Internet makes college easier, but can it be too much of a good thing? In today's Academic Minute, Georgia State University's Susan M. Snyder asserts that problematic use of the Internet can adversely affect key areas of a college student’s life.
Students are so busy singing in a cappella groups, planting trees for the environment and playing intramural ultimate Frisbee that they're being robbed of their education, argues William Hurst.
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
April 11, 2016 6:22 PM
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The key disadvantaged groups on which universities could have a quicker impact are mature learners limited by personal circumstances to part-time study.
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Peter Mellow
April 6, 2016 7:15 PM
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An entire generation of Syrians has had its education interrupted and the country's once flourishing academic community has been scattered.
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Peter Mellow
April 5, 2016 6:43 PM
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By identifying thinking routines for students, teachers can help deepen metacognitive skills that are applicable to all areas of life.
Blended learning can lead to student agency — the enabling of informed, empowered learning — when it gives students choices about what, where, when, and how they learn. A group experts* recently shared blended learning strategies in Next Generation Learning Challenge’s #NGLCchat on student agency. (NGLC’s founding partners include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is …
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Peter Mellow
April 21, 2016 4:01 PM
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Why do so many people continue to pursue doctorates?
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Peter Mellow
April 19, 2016 5:56 PM
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In “There Is Life After College,” Jeffrey Selingo explores how the post-college experience doesn’t look much like the journey we ourselves took a generation ago, and how a gap year can help.
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Peter Mellow
April 17, 2016 9:32 PM
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couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by an A-level student with some questions about studying English at university.
Most of them were fairly standard, but his final query stuck with me. It was about marking at university, and whether there was some respite from the infamous tick-box exercise of humanities at school.
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
April 17, 2016 9:27 PM
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An all-male elite Harvard club has chosen 2016 as the year that it breaks a historic silence. In the 225 years of its existence, it has barely ever released a public statement. But as pressure mounted on the group to ditch its sexist ‘no women’ policy, the Porcellian went public.
Charles M. Storey, its president, defended the club’s single-gender status in an email to student paper The Crimson:
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Peter Mellow
April 14, 2016 6:03 PM
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A new study on student piracy makes a convincing case for open educational resources in higher education.
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Peter Mellow
April 13, 2016 6:46 PM
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Students are coming back to campus armed with thousands of devices. How do they protect them and their identities?
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Peter Mellow
April 12, 2016 11:36 PM
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Jeff Selingo’s There Is Life After College places too much emphasis on vocational education and not enough on the virtues of the liberal arts.
When it comes to accessing online learning materials, university students don't think much about whether their downloads might amount to piracy or copyright infringement.
Via Peter Mellow
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Peter Mellow
April 11, 2016 6:31 PM
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Does green pen really make a difference? Pupils discuss whether schools’ marking policies are bureaucratic nonsense or vital academic exercises
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Peter Mellow
from Educational Leadership
April 11, 2016 6:22 PM
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Lords report says curriculum focuses too much on academic route, leaving those who do not go to university unprepared for world of work
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April 5, 2016 10:43 PM
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Student agency is one of the reasons why next gen learning looks and feels different from traditional instructional practices.
Despite the best of intentions, whole group instruction that is teacher-centered or curriculum-centered tends to ignore the agency of individual students to own their learning and direct their own path through it. When student agency is embraced, the instructional model shifts to a student-centered learning model.
The benefits of using laptops in the classroom far outweigh the negatives.
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