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A couple of Chronicle of Higher Ed blog pieces I thought were interesting and worth sharing here: The first is “Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part 1:” Earlier this month, The Chronicle wrote about New York University’s attempt to reprogram the roles of some professors in large undergraduate classes, using technology to free them up [...] I’ve come across a couple of interesting articles analyzing the reasons why higher education is so expensive, especially relative to other things that people value. This article in Forbes.com, “Why Does College Cost So much?” is a summary of a forthcoming book by Robert Archibald and David Feldman, and it rings true to me. [...] This is an article that has been discussed on some of the electronic mailing lists I follow, and it was also sent to me by a loyal EMUTalk.org reader, I presume because this person thought it would be good to post here. From yesterday’s New York Times, “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital [...] There’s an interesting article in New York Times, “Plan B: Skip College.” As the title suggests, the argument is being made here that maybe it’s best if a lot of students skipped a four-year degree for trade school and/or the world of work. I don’t completely disagree with it, but I don’t agree with [...] Man, this is a story that just won’t go away– I get tons of links to discussion of the case of Julea Ward being dismissed from a counseling degree program at EMU either because of her religious views or because she discriminated against gay people, depending on how you look at it. The latest [...] One of the mailing lists I follow posted this the other day, a blog entry from Michael Feldstein (who is a “Principal Product Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions at Oracle”), “DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?” He’s making reference here to a book called DIY U, which is basically [...] It’s kind of a misleading headline because I think this IHE article, “Minor Bumps for iPad,” is largely positive about the newest Apple tablet computer big iTouch device/e-reader/toy. Here’s an interesting quote about iPads on college campuses: The new data come as some colleges are seeding their campuses with iPads. North Carolina State University [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader suggested that I post a link to this article from last week’s Inside Higher Ed, “Who Really Failed?” Here are the opening paragraphs: Dominique G. Homberger won’t apologize for setting high expectations for her students. The biology professor at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge gives brief quizzes at the [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader suggested that I post a link to this interesting Inside Higher Ed story, “Why They Take So Long.” Given the discussion we had last Fall (this post, for example), I thought I’d share this piece, which has a real ring of truth given the nature of EMU. Here are the [...] I had meant to post this earlier because this Chronicle of Higher Education article was the subject of some debate on one of the mailing lists I’m on, but I got busy with my day-job (some of it involving grading, ironically enough) and my new iPad (perhaps the subject of an upcoming post as [...] |
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