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Academia is continuing to show greater interest in our student-Veterans. The Chronicle of Higher Education is kicking off a series of articles on the subject with this informative read.

Academia is continuing to show greater interest in our student-Veterans. The Chronicle of Higher Education is kicking off a series of articles on the subject with this informative read.

This is an interesting response to the many recent articles and books on the failings of higher education.

The key question for higher-education institutions is how the overwhelming majority of students who do not go abroad will learn about the world and develop the intercultural skills they will need as citizens and workers. To address this question, institutions will need to be very clear about what knowledge, attitude, and skills students must learn, where and how they will acquire them, and what constitutes evidence of such learning.

The article describes and discusses in detail an innovative "green" approach to global collaboration in teaching and learning that may be feasible and practical to adopt across of a range of institutions of higher learning and academic programs.

New York Times article about use of clickers in higher education.

How could this work in higher education?

Findings from the second of two surveys conducted by Inside Higher Ed ad the Babson Research Group. Links to the full report are available in the article.

Teaching students to use technology mindfully, and the perils of multi-tasking. Includes a reading list at the end.

Few undergraduate experiences inspire more fervent advocacy than study abroad. These arguments seem increasingly compelling today as a growing list of economic, environmental, and technological challenges underscore our need for a more globally savvy and culturally interconnected populace.

Learn more about who your students are, where they come from, and how they're doing, with more than 15 tables and tools on enrollment and demographics.

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.

Ph.D.-a survivor of a process in which one learns more and more about less and less until one knows nearly everything about almost nothing

A professor can use MOOCs and not make himself obsolete.

What do you think of using students' grades in later sequential courses as a measure of instructors' success in previous courses? The research of an Ohio State professor is featured in this article!