While the financial crisis has demoted Ivy League institutions from super-rich to merely rich, public universities are being gutted. It is not news that America is a land of haves and have-nots. It is news that colleges are themselves dividing into haves and have-nots; they are becoming engines of inequality.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlEssay - The End of Tenure? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Nearly two-thirds of all college teachers are non-tenure-track adjuncts like Matt Williams, who told Hacker and Dreifus he had taught a dozen courses at two colleges in the Akron area the previous year, earning the equivalent of about $8.50 an hour by his reckoning.
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At Williams, a small liberal arts college renowned for teaching, 70 percent of employees do something other than teach.
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News: The Rise of the 'Edupunk' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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said Mark David Milliron, deputy director for postsecondary improvement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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So where are the bright spots? A continual refrain from panelists was the idea that “cutting to invest” is the only path forward. College leaders argue that the imperative to grow programs now invariably means the shedding of others.
Does Global Learning Really Occur in College? Reflections on the Global Education Conference | GETideas.org - 0 views
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fter my experiences in November participating in GlobalEdCon10 conference, I'm realizing that college learning isn't hitting the mark in this area, as well as it could be. GlobalEdCon10 was a ground-breaking event for education, in my opinion While most educators still travel to attend conferences face-to-face (and I do see value in doing so) or attends pre-organized conferences virtually in tandem with face-to-face participants, GlobalEdCon10 seems to have found the perfect recipe for collaborative, open sharing of global learning ideas.
A Difference: Flickring Mind Maps ... making learning sticky - 0 views
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If the school division didn't have a filter this project could have started more safely.
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I expect a lot of deep learning to come out of this. This assignment is being marked for completion only; if it's done they get 100%, if not they get 0%
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I characterize this as assessment for learning.
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Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Learners can use technologies - the problem is the institutions - 0 views
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“First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study group via Facebook last term, where 146 classmates swapped tips on homework questions that counted for 10 per cent of their mark.
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using Facebook to talk about schoolwork, when actually it’s no different than any study group working together on homework in a library,” said Neale.
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if I post a question about physics homework on my friend’s wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this – and my prof sees this, am I cheating?” said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself.”
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Wiki Project Aims to Document the World's Public Art - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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But they don’t just write new articles, they also tag pre-existing entries
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Thus this project not only exemplifies "the mob rule" by contrubuting knowledge, but it also embodies the hyperconnectivity by tagging those already exusting articles. This act of tagging instantaneously bring together the students at Indianna-Purdue with those who share the same concern over public art.
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A Wiki project to digitize public art--Wikipedia Saves Public Art-- was started by Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, an assistant professor at Indiana-Purdue, together with Richard McCoy, an assistant conservator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. 40 articles are added and another 912 already existing articles tagged.
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This Wiki project is the best example of what Mark Pesce emphasized in his talk: "a project of the mob, for the mob, and by the mob."
Learning Spaces | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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Net Gen students are facile at multitasking
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Workers anticipated having a single profession for the duration of their working lives. Education was based on a factory-like, "one size fits all" model. Talent was developed by weeding out those who could not do well in a monochromatic learning environment.
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Knowing now means using a well-organized set of facts to find new information and to solve novel problems. In 1900, learning consisted largely of memorization; today it relies chiefly on understanding.
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Stanford University prepares for an amazing "bookless library" - San Jose Mercury News - 0 views
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"The role of this new library is less to do with shelving and checking out books — and much more about research and discovery," said Andrew Herkovic, director of communications and development at Stanford Libraries.
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It is only half the size of the current Engineering Library, but saves its space for people, not things. It features soft seating, "brainstorm islands," a digital bulletin board, and group event space. There are few shelves and it will feature a self-checkout system.
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The sciences are the perfect place to test bookless libraries, librarians say. In math, online books tend to render formulas badly. And those in the humanities, arts and social sciences still embrace the serendipitous discoveries made while browsing. Johanna Drucker, UCLA professor of information studies, moreover asks: "What version of a work should be digitized as representative? Leo Tolstoy's original Russian text? Or the Maude translation? Should we digitize the sanitized version of Mark Twain's classics, or the originals?"
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