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Times Higher Education - YouTube and context - 0 views

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    The headline on the YouTube video clip of Karl Walling's lecture in May says simply: US Naval War College Professor Advocates Rape. As a result of some of the comments in the clip, the Naval War College placed Walling, a professor of strategy and policy,
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Engineering Education: Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre - 0 views

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    Engineering Education is a peer-reviewed, international journal and is freely available via the website of the Engineering Subject Centre and distributed in paper format to all UK university libraries and Engineering departments. Two issues are published
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Times Higher Education - Online tuition options are not second-rate, says task force chair - 0 views

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    The idea that online learning is a "poor substitute" for campus provision is a myth, according to the head of the UK's Online Learning Task Force.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Twitter feedback to help Government rate universities - 0 views

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    The Government has confirmed that it is to launch an official annual university league table, using measures such as students' personal feedback on their lecturers via the website Twitter.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Edinburgh students reward best teachers - 0 views

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    Students campaigning to raise the status of teaching at a Scottish university have rewarded the institution's most inspiring lecturers at their own awards ceremony this week.
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Times Higher Education - Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning - 0 views

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    Many academics see e-learning as "expensive and time-consuming", a survey has found. About half of university staff polled believe that learning technologies are popular with students but only a small proportion of academics are embracing them.
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Times Higher Education - Next-gen PhDs fail to find Web 2.0's 'on-switch' - 0 views

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    It is counter-intuitive in the extreme, but young researchers are failing to make use of so-called "emergent technology", such as Web 2.0 tools, to support their work.
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News: Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    DENVER - If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class? That question came up in two different sessions at the 2009 Educause Conference here on Friday. And in both cases, the panelists cited research indicating
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Times Higher Education - Learning to share - 0 views

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    Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoe Corbyn weighs up the ramifications for journals, while Matthew Reisz asks how book
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Times Higher Education - Teaching is the highest purpose, argues thinker - 0 views

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    Research is a "drag" on universities and an obstacle to their primary purpose: teaching students.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Universities should not be viewed as a cure-all for every soci... - 0 views

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    The requirement to meet the skills needs of employers, for example, is an "elephant trap", as these are "complex and sometimes conflicting" and there may be strong arguments why they cannot or should not always be met at public expense.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Digital copyright law will be 'burdensome' - 0 views

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    Major concerns have been raised about the impact of the Digital Economy Bill on universities, which fear it is likely to result in a "bureaucratic burden and muddle".
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - I'm a celebrity academic ... in the blogosphere - 0 views

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    British universities have been encouraged to embrace the concept of the "celebrity academic" and follow in the footsteps of their "shamelessly" self-promoting peers in North America. Chris Brauer, lecturer in online journalism at City University London, s
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Times Higher Education - By the blog: academics tread carefully - 0 views

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    UK scholars are slowly but surely heading into the blogosphere. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Times Higher Education - Better by design: putting learning spaces to work - 0 views

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    Edward Edgerton finds it deeply ironic that universities, as cradles of research, know so little about the impact their own buildings have on staff and students.
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Times Higher Education - Lip service to teaching is not enough, report says - 0 views

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    The university system is failing staff who want to specialise in teaching, and must develop "more robust" criteria for recruiting and promoting lecturers for their contribution to students' learning
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Analysis backs open-access path for scholarly publishing - 0 views

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    An "open-access" future for academic publishing would save money while boosting the profile of research and maximising its economic impact, a study has found.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Online, Oxbridge drops off the radar as there's little 'buzz' ... - 0 views

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    Oxbridge is near the top in university rankings, but it's a different story on the web, reports John Gill They have illustrious histories, multibillion-pound endowments and are likely to clean up in next week's research assessment exercise. But do the un
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Times Higher Education - Journal authors must also post to Wikipedia - 0 views

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    An academic journal has introduced a requirement that academics post their research findings on Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that anyone may edit.
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HEA_Wales_Bulletin_31_Oct_11.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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