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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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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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Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education?

University Business

In his 2011 The New Yorker essay , Harvard professor Louis Menand conceptualized the function of higher education in three ways: to develop life skills, enhance career prospects and improve social status. the small private college has traditionally championed the classical values of a liberal arts education.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! Students want to contribute something to make a difference—if only we gave them the chance. The reason for this is the strength of the emotions we felt at the time. 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.

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Students reveal lack of clarity in course outcomes

Inside Higher Ed

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, gathering data to evaluate how students view their own learning outcomes and how general education courses are targeting those outcomes required creative solutions. Image: Connecting students’ coursework to their future career is seen as an engagement tool and a necessity for career development.

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How the University of Birmingham is working with partners to attract global investment to its new Healthcare Innovation Campus

HEPI

The Government has stated a strong commitment to the UK taking a leading role in international research and innovation, and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology created by the Prime Minister in February 2023 places a welcome emphasis on science, bringing it back into the heart of a government department.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

In 2011 a White Paper, Students at the heart of the system , proposed a revised ‘regulatory régime’, in which new kinds of provider of higher education would have greater freedom about what they wanted to do or to be. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy.