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.
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 Chronicle Review The corporate university steals it - let's grab it back While much has been written on the corporatization of universities, its effect on time begs further attention: Corporatization has sped up the clock. A 2001 survey conducted by MIT compared university faculty and CEOs. Seventy-eight percent of...
A new report concludes that study overseas brings students into greater contact with people from diverse backgrounds. But it has little impact on students' relativistic appreciation of or comfort with cultural differences.
No one mentioned teaching portfolios in the professional-development seminars I attended as a doctoral student, so when I encountered requests for that item (or the vaguer "evidence of teaching effectiveness") in a handful of job calls last year, I balked.
There's big talk these days about "big data" in education-looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.
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.
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