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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

Yet, as higher education is increasingly reshaped by market logics, can open universities still claim to be engines of social progress, or have they become institutions that now reproduce the very inequalities they sought to dismantle? This question is not merely academic; it is profoundly political.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). “We

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). The use of one or more learning style instrument should be given to students so instructors can better develop learning activities. Aldmoor, A., & AlAmri, S. Technologies with Education 4.0. Lambeth, J.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: Data-Based Decisions, High Salary Expectations, Hispanic Enrollment, and Cyber Attacks

Liaison International

“Although about 97% of students would consider lowering salary expectations, they wouldn’t work for less than, on average, $72,580 at their first job…High-paying fields, such as engineering, math, or computer science, will pay nearly the same or lower than last year.” million in 2005 to 2.4

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). Designing effective pre-courses Pre-courses can be utilized in a variety of disciplines such as biology, engineering, psychology, economics, anatomy, and physiology, etc. References Collins, Henry, and David Foote. Managing Stress in Veterinary Students.” Reisbig, Mark B.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). The use of one or more learning style instrument should be given to students so instructors can better develop learning activities. Aldmoor, A., & AlAmri, S. Technologies with Education 4.0. Lambeth, J.

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More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom

Inside Higher Ed

“I don’t think people should cite it, and I don’t think people should cite Britannica, either,” Wales said in 2005. To be sure, the site’s founder, Jimmy Wales, is on record concerning how students should use—and, importantly, not use—Wikipedia.