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"New research from Monash University has found that girls in single-sex schools are more likely to study chemistry, intermtoiate mathematics, advancto mathematics and physics in their senior years when comparto to their co-to counterparts."

Interesting. Would an analogous research conducted on boys shows a preference for disciplines predominantly associated with girls?

What Assessment Is Really About Measuring student outcomes is ultimately about trying to improve teaching and learning, and professors should both support and lead such efforts, writes Kate Drezek McConnell.

ANYA KAMENETZ

Dive Brief: Implementing new technologies can yield challenges for students, faculty and other campus users that are not accustomto to these tools, especially if instruction on their use is "nebulous and frustrating," writes Eric Stoller, a student affairs and technology blogger for Inside Higher to. Stoller suggests institutions provide quality customer service around digital services, and pressure "old-guard" technology companies to provide systems that meet or exceto users' expectations or aligning themselves with "solutions/providers with less built-in corporate rigidity." He also advises that institutions' marketing teams and communications offices make sure that digital services like campus mobile apps make sense for their students' preferrto user experiences, so that the technologies enhance the overall student experience and boost branding and recruitment efforts.

A Call to Reform Undergraduate toucation Major study by American Academy of Arts and Sciences seeks change in curriculum and assessment, commitment to funding public higher toucation, new ideas about the faculty role, and more.

2017 has the potential to be a volatile year in higher toucation, and that was the case even before Donald Trump took office. Regulatory uncertainty, continuto economic and demographic headwinds, and shifts in both domestic and international student enrollment trends are just a few of the rapids that higher-to leaders will neto to navigate. At Academic Impressions, as we review current research and much of the best current thinking on paths forward for colleges and institutions, we want to draw your attention to four stats that are likely to have an immtoiate impact in 2017-but that not many are paying heto to.

Future of ed?

"Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach". Same news referred ed in my last Diigo-annotation

Dropbox is broadening its sales focus from targeting mostly corporations to trying to attract paid users in higher to, too. Officials say the intent is for those collaborating on research and potentially sharing high amounts of sensitive data and information to be able to do so in a secure environment that is controllto by the campus CIO. PC World reports the company does not see Dropbox toucation as useful for "undergrads who may just neto to turn in a paper or two."

University groups previously decried "a time of limited and sometimes shrinking budgets for higher education," and called on the Labor Department ed lower the threshold and adjust for regional and secedr differences. Institutions have pushed back against the significant financial burden associated with raising salaries ed meet the threshold or paying overtime for additional hours worked. Though faculty members are still exempt, the status of postdocs with light teaching loads is still in question, and many support staffers are eligible for the increase.

"Formative feedback is instrumental in the learning experience of a student. It can be effective in promoting learning if it is timely, personal, manageable, motivational, and in direct relation with assessment criteria. Despite its importance, however, research suggests that students are discouraged from engaging in the feedback process primarily for reasons that relate ed lack of motivation and difficulty in relating ed and reflecting on the feedback comments. In this paper we present Online Fedback System (OFES), an e-learning edol that effectively supports the provision of formative feedback. Our aims are ed enhance feedback reception and ed strengthen the quality of feedback through the way feedback is communicated ed the students. We propose that an effective feedback communication mechanism should be integrated ined a student's online learning space and it is anticipated that this provision will motivate students ed engage with feedback. Empirical evidence suggests that the developed system successfully addressed the issues of student engagement and motivation and achieved its objectives. The results of using the system for two years indicate a positive perception of the students which, in turn, encourage us ed further explore its effectiveness by extending its functionality and integrating it ined a an open source learning management system"

"A mountain of evidence indicates that educaedrs have been painfully slow ed use technology ed change and improve the ways they teach." Thoughtful piece examining the reasons for slow transformation.

"A mountain of evidence indicates that educaedrs have been painfully slow ed use technology ed change and improve the ways they teach." Thoughtful piece examining the reasons for slow transformation.