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Amyaz Moledina

Flipping the Curriculum: Introductory Courses Should Be Just as Good as the Capstone Ex... - 0 views

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flipping curriculum courses first year experience moocs higher education liberal-arts education

shared by Amyaz Moledina on 03 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • “flipping the curriculum.” It would call for small classes in the freshman and senior years and larger classes for sophomores and particularly for juniors. The profit that the university makes right now on introductory classes would remain, but just shift to the junior year.
  • Amyaz Moledina on 03 Dec 12
     
    We already do this!
Jon Breitenbucher

Stanford moves ahead with plans to radically change humanities doctoral education | Ins... - 0 views

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future higher education change model

shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Jon Breitenbucher on 04 Dec 12
     
    Possibly some ideas for how Wooster might begin to think about tweaking our curriculum.
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on the nature of change in American higher education | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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higher education MOOCs future survival

shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Jon Breitenbucher on 29 Apr 13
     
    "America is shifting from a national, analog, industrial economy to a global, digital, information economy. Our social institutions, colleges and universities included, were created for the former. Today they all seem to be broken. They work less well than they once did. Through either repair or replacement - more likely a combination - they need to be refitted for a new age. Higher education underwent this kind of evolution in the past as the United States shifted from an agricultural to an industrial economy. The classical agrarian college, imported from 17th-century England with a curriculum rooted in the Middle Ages, was established to educate a learned clergy to govern the colonies. This model held sway until the early 19th century."
Amyaz Moledina

Should algebra be in curriculum? Why math protects us from the unscrupulous. - Slate Ma... - 0 views

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math Mathematics higher education liberal-arts future

shared by Amyaz Moledina on 11 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • social scientist Andrew Hacker suggested eliminating algebra from the school curriculum as an “onerous stumbling block,” and instead teaching students “how the Consumer Price Index is computed.” What seems to be completely lost on Hacker and authors of similar proposals is that the calculation of the CPI, as well as other evidence-based statistics, is in fact a difficult mathematical problem, which requires deep knowledge of all major branches of mathematics including … advanced algebra.
  • Amyaz Moledina on 11 Feb 13
     
    Given the recent article that Grant shared about the quality of students coming in to college, (and the QL Horizons group), this article reinforces that there are multiple critical thinking "literacies" that are under siege. 
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