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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Ohio Lawmaker Lied About MIT Degree

Inside Higher Ed

Republican lawmaker Dave Dobos has stepped down as vice chair of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee after Cleveland.com revealed he lied about earning a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he attended in the 1970s and 1980s. ” Editorial Tags: Degree scandals Ohio Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Special Education Professor Taps into Technology, Grant Funding to Engage Students

Insight Into Diversity

In 2001, Evmenova left her home in Saratov, Russia, for East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., to pursue her master’s degree, knowing little about the field she planned to enter. She encourages her George Mason University students to explore assistive technology and choose a learning format that best meets their needs.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. Validation’ can allow it to offer only the degrees of a validating body with which it has a franchising arrangement.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

When is a degree not a degree? The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. The third type is the degree awarded by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, which are effectively honorific degrees. degree, which the M.A. degree will replace.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8. Some of these deliver higher education in partnership with other providers which have their own degree-awarding powers, relying on them to provide their students with degrees.