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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Is a 4-Year College Degree Still Necessary?

MindMax

Public sentiment about higher education altered considerably over the past decade. And I have to confess that even I—someone who has spent my career enmeshed in higher education—have come to understand and, to some extent, share their perspective. There is much to criticize about higher ed in America.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

I’m talking about books such as DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education From the Inside Out by Clayton Christensen and Henry J. As I argue in my book, Sustainable.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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There is no such thing as a safe return to student number controls – because the Treasury is too powerful

HEPI

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. As David Kernohan says in his best piece on the issue : ‘Would it limit some access to higher education – yes, it would.’

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. by Rob Cuthbert. No 4 The English experiment ).